Title: 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