Pearl

Description:

After fifteen-year-old Bean's beloved grandfather Gus dies, she discovers uncomfortable secrets about him, her mother, and the father she has never known.

subjects: Lesbians,  Emotional problems,  Best friends,  Mothers and daughters,  Family problems,  Friendship,  Fiction,  Stress (Psychology),  Teenage girls,  Dysfunctional families,  Juvenile fiction,  Mother-daughter relationship,  Family life,  Grief,  Children of gay and lesbian parents,  Death,  Grief in teenage girls,  Single-parent family,  Fifteen-year-old girls,  Family secrets,  Grandfathers,  Children's fiction,  Friendship, fiction,  Mothers and daughters, fiction