Only child
An only child may occur in a 2 parent and 1 child family, or a 1 parent and 1 child family. Some people say that a child is disadvantaged by not having brothers or sisters while others feel that this has little effect and there are other ... [... more]
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Charles Martin
CHARLES MARTIN is the author of When Crickets Cry. He lives in Jacksonville, Florida. He was a fishing guide and struggling artist from a south George trailer park. She was the beautiful only child of South Carolina's most powerful senator. Yet ... [... more]
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Mickey Podell-Raber
Mickey Podell-Raber is the only child of longtime Copacabana owner Jules Podell. She grew up going to the club every Sunday night for dinner and a show, and even had a direct line into the kitchen to order all her meals and shared many of the big ... [... more]
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Charles M. Schulz
Charles M. Schulz was born in 1922 in Minneapolis, the only child of a housewife and a barber. His interest in comics was encouraged by his father, who loved the funny pages. After army duty, Schulz lettered comic pages for Timeless Topix, and ... [... more]
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Carol Jordan Stewart
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth Elizabeth is an only child, new in town, and the shortest kid in her class. She's also pretty lonely, until she meets Jennifer. Jennifer is . . . well, different. She's read Macbeth. ... [... more]
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Eva Hoffman
An only child, Iris lives with her mother in a rambling house in a small midwestern town. Her mother is everything: provider, confidante, friend. But at seventeen, Iris begins to question their nearly symbiotic relationship-and the noticeable ... [... more]
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E.L. Konigsburg
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth Elizabeth is an only child, new in town, and the shortest kid in her class. She's also pretty lonely, until she meets Jennifer. Jennifer is . . . well, different. She's read Macbeth. ... [... more]
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Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899, the only child of an Irish lawyer and landowner. Her book Many people have fled the city, and those who stayed behind find themselves thrown together in an odd intimacy born of crisis. Stella Rodney is ... [... more]
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Carmela A. Martino
Living with her Italian immigrant parents in 1960s Chicago, nine-year-old Rosa, an only child, often feels SOLA and different. But as soon as she holds her friend AnnaMaria's... Rosa, Sola Carmela A. Martino [... more]
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John Irving
John Irving was born in New Hampshire. He studied at universities in America and Europe and published his first novel, During the 1980s John Irving wrote a series of absorbing and celebrated books: Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire ... [... more]
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Mark Deakins
He was a fishing guide and struggling artist from a south George trailer park. She was the beautiful only child of South Carolina's most powerful senator. Yet once Doss Michaels and Abigail Grace Coleman met by accident, they... Pete Sampras is ... [... more]
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Susan Newman
A Guide to Diagnosing and Finding Help for Yoru Child's Reading Difficulties Is it possible to raise a contented only child? Can we be happy with only one child? The answer to both of these questions is a resounding yes. In recent years, the ... [... more]
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