Everything you need to understand or teach It's an Aardvark-Eat-Turtle World by Paula Danziger.
More than anything else, fourteen-year-old Rosie Wilson, biracial daughter of a mixed marriage, wants to be part of a family, all living happily under one roof. At first it seems she will get her wish when her mother and the father of Rosie's best friend fall in love and move in together, taking Rosie and Phoebe with them.
The euphoric fantasy of a "happily ever after" family and the ceremony of commitment they...