The Halloween Ball is truly a Halloween treat. Mary wants to attend her school's Halloween dance at Broadmoor Middle Laboratory School. She's a normal, ordinary teenager, but has difficulty asking her father about attending school functions. A protective dad, he can't accept that his daughter is now a teenager and needs autonomy. Her mother knows what it's like to be a teenage girl, so Mary plots to get both parents to allow her to attend the dance. This story for young teens shows how behavior affects family relationships. Irma Jamison of Shreveport, Louisiana, is a 58-year-old mother of...