Child Marriage

Twelve-year-old Anna’s parents are going through a rough patch, but Anna can’t let them split up. Not when it might mean living apart from Anto, her twin brother. Anto might be a boy, and he might not speak (except using Lego bricks), and he might carry a coat hanger about like it's his closest friend, but that doesn’t stop the two of them being like peas in a pod. It’s a twin thing, and nobody’s going to separate them.

This is a story from the More Tales from the Greek Legends collection.

This Coretta Scott King Honor book for young adults from best-selling and award-winning author Nikki Grimes uses free-verse poetry to tell the dual stories of Sam, a teen whose dad leaves him and his mother for another woman, and Ishmael, the son of Abraham, who must deal with a different type of rejection when Isaac arrives.

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - March 2021 Bill And The Tooth Fairy: An adult loses a tooth and attempts to appease the tooth fairy. Sienna's Monster: A troubled girl leaves for college and is forced to come to terms with the monster that haunts her nightmares. Soon The Sentence Sign: A bar fight turns into a brush with the colonial AI driven judicial system. Echo: A woman wakes up to find she was "saved" by being put into the body of a robot with far fewer human rights than she is accustomed. StarStuck: The first child in 1,000 years is born to the "Great Purveyors of Reason" and ...

Not all love stories have a happily ever after.... All Lydia de Lisle Edwards wants from her new marriage is to love and be loved by the handsome man who rescued her from the embarrassing, and potentially life shattering, ramifications of conceiving a child out of wedlock. However, as Lydia gets to know Isaac Edwards, along with the strange woman who serves as a mother-figure to her new husband, and the terrifying doctor specializing in women's health--particularly hysteria--Lydia begins to realize this marriage might just be her undoing. An exploration into the struggles of being a woman ...

Are you Feeling Severe Pains and Discomfort as a Pregnant Woman? Do you Have Complications or Hard Times During Pregnancy? Get this book!!! Pregnancy is a very delicate situation in every woman’s life. It is a time devil takes pleasure in attacking believers. You do not have to go through pains and discomfort during your pregnancy because of your faith. In this book, Prayer Madueke, best-selling author of 21/40 Nights of Decrees and Your Enemies Will Surrender, reveals the biblical basis for safe pregnancy and delivery. He outlines what the man and woman’s responsibilities are in ...

Twelve-year-old Annabel thought Christmas break was going to be amazing. She’d planned to stay home in New York City with her best friend and do traditional things like go ice-skating in Rockefeller Center, hit the after-Christmas sale at Bloomingdale’s, and scream with the TRL crowd at MTV in Times Square. But when her best friend bails, Annabel’s mom decides it’s high time Annabel visit her father and his new family in Australia.

When a messenger bat arrives at the RSPCB, boy-werewolf Ulf receives a warning that beasts are in trouble in the wild. Unaware of the danger he is facing, Ulf soon uncovers foul play: A rare colony of trolls is being smoked out from their caves to be used as game in an evil beast-hunting preserve. It's up to Ulf to save the day!

Keith enjoys sweet reunions with family and students when the Mexico field trip finally becomes a reality. Parents lash out against the Bradleys with bitter accusations of fracturing their families and teaching their children to hate them. Hiding in plain sight can only go so far when a cartel drug lord, an educational authority, and someone who insists on documenting her own truth prepare for a final showdown. Cherub Bradley's long-anticipated arrival sparks tender and terrifying consequences. Joshua Bradley's call to face the lions leads to fiery confrontations no one expected. Keith ...

A girl with a wish. A man raising his daughter alone. A woman who goes to the most remote place she can find. Mandy's world is turned upside down when her boyfriend blindsides her with a shocking revelation instead of a proposal. Desperate to escape the heartache, she takes a summer nanny job in Fairbanks, Alaska. Darren is raising his daughter alone. Since his job on the North Slope keeps him away for days at a time there's no other solution except to send his daughter Katie to the lower 48 for the summer. Katie desperately wants to stay in Fairbanks with her father, so she takes matters ...

Donald had it all—a loving wife, two beautiful children, and a life most would envy. But beneath the surface, he was trapped in a body that never felt like his own. When the truth shatters the illusion of his perfect family, he faces heartbreak, betrayal, and the wrath of those who refuse to understand. As his transformation begins, his children struggle with the loss of the father they once knew, his wife grapples with love and resentment, and his powerful father-in-law wages a legal and emotional war to erase him. Yet, through pain and rejection, Donald finds an unshakable bond with ...

Sometimes when we try to succeed in life, we are held back by trauma from childhood. This book gets to the root of your issues to help you quiet your mind and heal your past trauma.

Parker is a quiet, introverted eleven-year-old boy, stuck in the middle of his parents' divorce, when he stumbles upon Drog, an ugly green puppet left in the rubbish. But Drog is no ordinary puppet; he's a talking, sarcastic, obnoxious puppet...who won't let go of Parker's hand! Worst of all, no one believes that Drog - not Parker - is saying all of the outrageous things that get Parker into trouble....

A heart-expanding story of hope, friendship, and the power that comes with realising that magic, like family, doesn't always look the way you expect it to. Eleven-year-old June is a problem solver. Some people might call her a busybody, but that's okay. However, when June learns that her parents are getting divorced, she has to face the fact that there are some problems too big even for her. At least, that's what the adults in her life keep saying.

Four Hot Chips - one family's story about childhood cancer, how they survived and how they nearly didn't. The day starts as any other day starts. With the utterance of a few words, Jo-Ann and David Capp’s world was then shattered when their six-year-old son was diagnosed with cancer. His sister was only eight. As Reid’s health deteriorated, so did the health of Jo and David’s marriage. Would there be a point of no return? With brutal honesty, Jo-Ann takes stock of her role within the relationships she has with those around her, and makes changes, one at a time.

What does a kid do when his Mum and Dad are past it? Get them into shape, decides Keith. And find them new partners. It's a brilliant plan, but he'll need help.

Things aren't going great for Archie Albright. His dad's acting weird, his mum too, and he all he wants is for everything to go back to normal, to three months before, when his parents were happy and still lived together. When Archie sees a colourful, crumpled flyer fall out of Dad's pocket, he thinks he may have found the answer. Only problem? The answer might just lie at the end of the rainbow, an adventure away.

Yurdumun Çocuklarına...' diyerek takdim ediyor bu kitabı Mahmut Yesari. 100 temel eser arasında gösterilen Bağrıyanık Ömer, aynı zamanda kahramanı çocuk olan ilk eser kabul edilir. Anne babasının geçimsizliği ve ayrılmaları ile gelişen olayları, tüm bunları yaşayan talihsiz Ömer ile birlikte görürüz. Yesari'nin yalın ama bir o kadar da içten anlatımı hem içinizi ısıtacak hem de duygulandıracak.

James splits his life between his mum’s and his dad’s houses. It’s far from perfect. Especially now Dad doesn’t have time for bike rides with him any more and Mum’s always with her new boyfriend. The constant is Digger, his dog and best friend. He’s the glue that holds the two halves of James’ life together. So when James finds a lump on Digger’s leg, everything changes. Digger is the one he can talk to about anything. But when it’s Digger he needs to talk about, where can he turn?

Nach der Schule wird der siebenjährige Marvin vom Arche-Bus abgeholt. Er wirkt müde und erschöpft. Er freut sich auf seine erste Mahlzeit am Tag. Weder für Frühstück noch für Essen in der Schule können seine Eltern sorgen. Das ist trauriger Alltag in Deutschland. Die Autoren möchten mit diesem Hörbuch wachrütteln. Es soll eine Inspiration für diejenigen sein, die etwas in unserer Gesellschaft ändern und jedem Kind eine Chance auf ein selbstbestimmtes Leben geben wollen.