title: The Seven-Year Stretch: Growing Through Adolescence : The Family Process and How It Works
author: Jennifer F. Wyatt
description: Kastner (psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Univ. of Washington) and writer Wyatt, both of whom are parents of two children, examine the dynamics of adolescent growth within the family. Each of eight chapters deals separately with a major developmental area of adolescence: trust, freedom, a concept of self, character, social skills, sexuality, risk-taking, and launching. In discussing how adolescents achieve each of these goals, the authors concentrate on the family dynamics involved. Taking a wholistic approach, they argue cogently that "to understand what's going on with an individual, we need to explore the network of relationships of which he or she is a part." Sample vignettes are drawn from families who function at various levels, from healthy to very unhealthy. This work should prove to be a valuable resource to both parents and others, including educators, who work with adolescents. Highly recommended for all public and undergraduate libraries.?Kay L. Brodie, Chesapeake Coll., Wye Mills., Md.<br />Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  They’ll stop at nothing to protect a child.
  
  
  Ever since he escaped his father’s biker gang, sheriff’s deputy Brady Wyatt
  has never looked back. Then Cecilia Mills asks Brady to help her hide a child
  from the delinquent crew. But when threats impact the safety of the makeshift
  family, will they find a way to protect themselves...or will the Sons of the
  Badlands take the child back into its dangerous grip?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Cecilia didn’t want to be protected, but sometimes she wanted to be soothed.
  
  
  She didn’t need anyone to fight her fights, but sometimes she needed someone
  to dress her wounds. Literally. Figuratively.
  
  
  Brady did that. Just...by being him.
  
  
  His fingers tightened in her hair, and the kiss that had begun as soft and
  lazy heated, sharpened. Something ignited deep inside of her, a hunger she
  hadn’t really thought could exist inside of her. It had certainly never leaped
  to life before.
  
  
  But now.... Now she wanted to sink into that heat and that unfurli