Ten-year-old Ginny Morris, whose parents are divorced, lives with each parent a week at a time. One day when she arrives at her dad's after a week with her mother, she discovers that the house is spotless, the yard is spruced up, and even her own room has been messed with. The reason: Dad has a friend named Ruth. In the aftermath of this discovery, Ginny grapples with a broad range of feelings: feelings of alienation, anger, and disgust toward her father, grief that her parents won't reconcile, lack of understanding and support from her best friend, a desire to live with her mother full-time, fear that she'll lose her relationship with her father, and antipathy toward Dad's friend. The story takes place over a week's time and comes to a reasonable resolution, with Ginny beginning to accept the directions her parents are taking in their personal lives.

 

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by American Psychological Association .

Teresa and Whitney Martin have recently survived moving to Santa Fe with their two boys, two cats, and puppy. Big Ernie's New Home is their first book together, after seventeen years of talking about it. Whitney Martin is also the illustrator of Cory's Stories , Ginny Morris and Mom's House, Dad's House , and Ginny Morris and Dad's New Girlfriend . Mary Collins Gallagher, MA, LPC, is a school counselor who has worked with hundreds of children before, during, and after their parents' divorce. She is the author of Ginny Morris and Mom's House, Dad's House and Ginny Morris and Dad's New Girlfriend . She has three grown children and lives in Madison, Wisconsin.