Appropriate for ""Tween/Teen"" market. Ginny Morris is in the fourth grade and her parents have been divorced for two years. She goes back and forth between her mother's apartment and her father's house, switching each Sunday (""switch day""). Ginny's character is smart, spunky, and a bit precocious, with a wry sense of humor. Children in shared custody arrangements have to cope with many practical as well as emotional challenges and Ginny confronts and encounters most of them.

 

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2005 by Magination Press .

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.