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Item Nr: B 95600 Title: Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
Grade Lvl: T Author: Solomon, Andrew
Length: 962 Prod/Pub: Scribner
Copyright: 2012 Series:
Book Type: N Biographee:
Copies: 0 Loan Period: 14 days
 
  Examines the impact of diversity on families, focusing on parenting children with physical and mental disabilities, child prodigies, children conceived in rape, children who become criminals, and transgender children. The author writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, or multiple severe disabilities. While each of these characteristics is potentially isolating, the experience of difference within families is universal, and Solomon documents triumphs of love over prejudice in every chapter. Parents of handicapped children United States. Identity (Psychology).

  Subjects:
  579 - DISABILITIES
  1433 - DIVERSITY
  477 - EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN
  1820 - FEP/PEC
  1233 - PARENT AND CHILD
  896 - PSYCHOLOGY
  1613 - REQUEST--AEA
  1465 - SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS/PERSONS