Patricia Caviglia: 2 books

Masks tells the story of two teenagers struggling to be normal, despite their dysfunctional families. Rebecca Jacobs is an unremarkable teenage girl at least, that is what she wants the world to believe. But her private life is made public when her verbally abusive father embarrasses her at...

At twenty-one, Diana has two goals in life. First, she needs to acquire her independence from her controlling father by finding a job to support herself. Second, she wants to find her mother. Why had her mother abandoned her? Wasn’t she worth loving? Her first work assignment leads her straight...