Jenna’s mother and her get into arguments over Jenna asking her mother to watch her son. Jenna has to pay for daycare after school for him while she is at work and has little money to pay for additional daycare when she would be at college classes. Her mother says that she has raised her children and does not believe that she should have to help her daughter because she received no help with her children. Jenna has a 17 year old sister who does help with watching her son, but Jenna also feels guilty always having to ask her and has no money to pay her to watch her son. Jenna and her sister are close, her sister plans on attending college at the end of her senior year and wants to study to become a doctor.
After the date, they went to Dairy Queen to have ice cream and said goodnight to each other. The next day, Linda was wearing the red cap to school and a boy named Nick Veenhof was teasing her and took the cap off of her head. Her bald head was shown with stitching and some bandages. This let the whole class knows she had cancer. O’Brien was called Timmy at that time, and he uses stories of Linda’s life to feel like she is still alive.
Double Identity By: Margaret Peterson Haddix Double Identity, by Margaret Peterson Haddix, is the story of a 12 year old girl named Bethany Cole, who was never out of her parent’s sights growing up, and is now sent to live with her aunt Myrlie, whom Bethany has never even met. She is to stay with Myrlie until she is “safe” again. Bethany Cole was living a normal life until her parents, Walter and Hilary, loaded her into their car at midnight and took her hours away from their home in Pennsylvania. They reached Sanderfield, Illinois, where Bethany was introduced to her aunt Myrlie Wilkers, whom Bethany had never met. While Bethany’s dad talked to Myrlie, Bethany overheard her father say “She doesn’t know anything about Elizabeth.” Bethany realized that her parents were abandoning her without an explanation, but she begrudgingly settled in.
Case Studies Part 2 Jean Sweetland never expected that she would one day have so many different hats to wear .But now,in her early forties,when Jean comes home from her full-time job as a nurse and takes off her nurse's cap,it seems as through her day has barely started.With two teenage children living at home,Jean next must put on her mother's hat and enforce household rules,dispense advice,help with homework, or just provide a shoulder to cry on.Before her husband comes home from his own job,Jean has to pop on her chef's hat and get dinner started; the maid's cap will come out later,when Jean does the family's laundry and cleans the bathrooms.As if all this weren't enough,the responsibility has fallen
I think there were other reasons also, but the story points to this one in many places. First of all, Connie was not happy at home. To me Connie felt ignored by her dad and the other family members because they could give her the attention she wanted. This sort of relates to John Hughes movie "Sixteen Candles" Sam Baker struggles to get through the day on her 16th birthday because her entire family has forgotten about it and gave there attention elsewhere, to her sister wedding. Her father was most of the time at work and when he was home he didn't bother talking much to Connie.
Foster Mcfee is a 12 year old girl from Memphis. She is obsessed with baking all types of cupcakes to cakes. She was living a normal life baking and watching her mom perform as a backstage singer with her boyfriend Huck also called as Elvis at least he thought of himself as one. Well one night everything changes when they hear the window crash this is after her mom and Huck have a breakup and he is really mad so he breaks in and tries to talk to Rayka, Fosters mom and he ends up hitting her in the eye so Foster and Rayka run as fast as they could away from Huck trying to find any safe place away from him and his violence. They end up in a small town in Virginia called Culpepper where they find nice people that help them and soon Foster starts
(http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/photogallery/runnion.html) A 6 year old little girl name Destiny Wright staying with her grand mom goes over to her grand moms friends house for a sleep over and turns up missing and found dead. (http://articles.philly.com/2002-08-09/news/25336248_1_slumber-party-baby-extensive-police-search).
She lost all her friends and has no one to talk to and share her feelings to, besides Heather. Heather is a girl who comes from Ohio and moved to Syracuse New York. She is a student from a different middle school and is unaware of the incident that just took place. Heather becomes her friend, but she soon backs off from being Melinda’s friend because she thinks that Melinda is the most depressed girl she ever met and she is not so cool so she goes and hangs out with the cool girls. Leaving, Melinda everyone turns there back on Melinda, but her lab partner who tells her and encourages her to speak up and not to remain silent.
My family began arriving a little at a time. My sisters and mother soon made their way to the hospital. I can only imagine what they had been told. The outlook wasn't great for a 100% recovery, but I never complained. I was in a double room and my roommate, Marie, a heavy girl, had jumped off the roof of her house and shattered her knee.
They didn’t really much. They only went out when they had a family event which included her father’s side of the family. This affected Connie because Connie was a teenager who likes to go out and hang out with her friends. Connie liked to go to the mall and to the Movies during the summer time while school was out. She hated staying home with her mom and her sister because they were boring to her.