Everything you need to understand or teach Holding Me Here by Pam Conrad.
In Holding Me Here, fourteen-year-old Robin Lewis's life isn't nearly as exciting as that of the heroines in her fantasies. Her parents are divorced, but their parting was amiable and civilized. She lives with her understanding, hip mother, and regularly visits her father, a professor of paleontology, who is equally kind and supportive.
But when Robin's mother takes in a boarder, Mary Walker, Robin's life is transformed into a cross between a fairy...