Product Description: Few children nowadays are placed for adoption with no form of contact planned with birth relatives and it has become common professional practice to advocate direct rather than indirect contact. Practice has outstripped evidence in this respect and not enough is known about how contact arrangements actually work out, particularly for older children adopted from state care...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Alex Smith and his eight personalities were trapped in a world of unfathomable evil...until he entered the "magic castle" and found the key to his freedom.When Carole Smith and her husband decided to take in a foster child that no one else would have, they knew ten-year-old Alex would be difficult...read more

An unforgettable, and ultimately successful, story of a woman who took on the challenge of a ten-year-old boy named Alex, adopted him, and struggled with him to fight the mentally damaging results of his early childhood, which left him the victim of multiple personality disorder.

When a deserted house mysteriously burns, Larry suspects that a kidnapped boy was held prisoner there.

Jeremy Pulaski finds himself in a sea of complications after he grabs a painting from a gift shop when the manager's back is turned

Teen-age Roger, whose confidence needs a boost, gets to use some of his basketball skills when he suspects a smuggling operation in the Chinese restaurant where he works.

When Ted is injured by a hit-and-run driver, his friends Jeff and Andy set out to find the culprit, only to discover he is a star on their favorite baseball team.

While spending Christmas vacation with he family in another family's home, Patti Henderson suspects that the ill-tempered housekeeper is not the real housekeeper, a woman named Anna who may have been kidnapped

While staying in a motel in the Florida Keys with their convalescent mother, Grand and his sister Shelley become acquainted with a pelican and investigate a mystery involving the robbery of a beach home