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Kristina's world is centered on her dancing. A ballet student who plans a future as a professional dancer, Kristina is influenced greatly by Annya, her mother, teacher, and her dancing companion. The sixteen-year-old and her mother, who looks more like a sister, are close and competitive. Suddenly their private world is shattered; Annya is crippled in an accident. She will never walk, much less dance again. Kristina refuses to accept the inevitable. Alienating herself from her mother and father, she is forced to seek out new friends and interests. At school she becomes allied with Jill, the...

When Love Is Not Enough Chronicles of LauraJo is a first-person account of a young woman suffering from the emotional disorder Borderline Personality (BPD.) The story is told by LuaraJo (LJ) from meticulous journals she kept during the ten years of her ordeal (1976/86) and her mother's commentary. It has taken her mother, a partner in her daughter's journey, over twenty years to get the courage to read her daughter's journals, all numbered in preparation for this book, the one LJ intended to write. The journal entries included in this book have been selected to illustrate the different...

When her mother and her stepfather did not come home for dinner, Sandy had a sense of foreboding. But her mother had been late before, so Sandy hid her fears from her two younger sisters. Only later, getting up in the middle of the night and finding that her mother's clothes were gone, did she admit the horrible truth-they had been abandoned. Readers will be caught up in thirteen-year-old Sandy's attempt to shield her sisters from knowledge of the desertion and to keep them all together on their run-down, debt-ridden farm. She deceives the neighbors by inventing a sick aunt whom their mother...