Product Description: This story shows the importance of keeping hope alive, even when it seems impossible—when the hard work of parenting is compounded by the unfinished business of growing up and making plans for the future. Without judgment, this book lays out helpful guidelines and possible pitfalls that face a young, single woman who cares for her child but refuses to lose her ambition...read more

A single mother explains to her son that his daddy left soon after he was born and includes a section with suggestions for answering the question, 'Do I have a daddy?'

Product Description: For all women experiencing violence in a relationship, whether at the hands of a same-sex or heterosexual partner, this book provides affirmation and direction to move past the struggles and start to heal. By drawing from a diverse population and using poetry, prose, illustrations, and the words of abused women, this resource covers the many important and often difficult issues, such as a battered-person's rights, how to leave an abuser, understanding physical violence, lesbian battering, and women's shelters...read more

Discusses adoption as an option for pregnant young women who do not have the resources to parent well, exploring how such a solution could affect the birthmother, the child, and the father

While at camp, Julia finds the courage to reveal to her friend Susannah that her father is beating her at home.

Morgan's adoptive mother reassures her that she is loved by reading a letter written by her birthmother