Divorce in YAF

I'm working on something now that would feature young adult books "about" divorce-- one example being Judy Blume's "It's Not the End of the World," where the main character, Karen, watches as her parents' marriage falls apart, and tries to cope.

Older books would be nice (from the 1970s, say), and recent ones might be useful as well. The piece I'm working on will probably feature my memories of reading these books, and maybe comparisons to new ones, but I have a terrible memory for titles of the books I read when I was younger, so any titles would be helpful!

I'm checking bibliographies, library websites, online stores, but any more info would help.

thanks, mamas!

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I can think of a bunch that

I can think of a bunch that aren't totally about divorce but deal with fall-out from it:
Standing Up to Mr. O by Claudia Mills,

some damn book I can't remember about an artist daughter and her father...hmmm...it's in the Chinaberry catalog. And another about a musician daughter and her father...I think that one may be called The Mozart Season, but maybe not..that could be the musician daughter book with an intact family. Guess they weren't that memorable!

Indigo's Star by Hilary McKay (LOVE the Casson family books)

What Jamie Saw

The Steps by Rachel Cohn

The Landry News by Andrew Clements