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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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... Written by Carmela A. Martino Rosa, Sola Carmela A. Martino [... 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 Orphaned at a young age, Eva has found a home of sorts in Worcestershire with her former schoolteacher, Iseult Arbles, and Iseult's husband, ... [... 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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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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Jean Reynolds Page
Someone once told me that groupings of objects should be displayed in threes. Three provides both tension and balance among items of varying size and heft. My sister's accident made me an only child; my husband's accident made me a widow. Part of ... [... more]
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