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Chapter Books About Parents Divorcing – Wonderlit | Wonderlit

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Chapter Books About Parents Divorcing

Divorce in chapter book form has room for the complications: the custody schedule, the new partner, the holidays that feel wrong, the anger that comes and goes. These 181 books don't simplify any of it.

181 books

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Twelve-year-old Hart channels his feelings about his parents' divorce into a secret engineering project: building a real

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One Day at a Time A Story about Healing from Divorce

For the child navigating the big changes of divorce, this gentle story uses the metaphor of a physical wound to show how

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Comeback Kids #2

For the child navigating the pressure of a parent's high expectations while processing the quiet changes of a family sep

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With his parents growing further apart, a young boy seeks comfort in his uncle’s taxi. He finds a new kind of family amo

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