mothers and daughters

Raised by a single mother, Miraflores discovers as an adult that her father is still alive. She travels to Panama to meet him and discover more about her heritage and identity.

Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.

While spending the summer with her aunt and cousin at the family's vacation home in Maine, thirteen-year-old Ali stumbles upon the secret to the childhood tragedy that her mother and aunt have been hiding for over thirty years.

It tells the unlikely love story of Maddy, a smart, curious and imaginative eighteen-year-old who due to an illness cannot leave the protection of the hermetically sealed environment within her house, and Olly, the boy next door who won't let that stop them. Maddy is desperate to experience the much more stimulating outside world, and the promise of her first romance.

When her mami meets someone new, Juana worries that everything will change.

Twelve-year-old Rika Lovelace-Rose has been having trouble expressing her feelings about her parents' divorce and her absent mother. When she gets in trouble for vandalism again, her father sends her from Colorado to Trinidad, where she's to spend the summer with her maternal grandmother. As soon as she arrives, things feel different on the island and she meets a group of kids her age that seem to have magical abilities. When she finds a grimoire that speaks to her, she learns she is a witch and that her mother is being held captive. Embracing her heritage and magical abilities, she joins with her new friends to take on the fearsome jumbie king in a harrowing maze.

Eighteen-year-old Remy can't wait to escape her family and begin her new life at Stanford. Of course, she needs to dump her latest boyfriend and coordinate her mom's fifth wedding first. But her careful plans don't include an offbeat young man named Dexter. Just seconds after Dexter careens in to Remy, he insists that destiny brought them together. Even though Remy disagrees, she's soon shocked to see Dexter and his band performing at her mom's wedding reception. And when Remy gets drunk and decks a bar patron, Dexter gallantly rescues the damsel from further distress. Although Remy knows this free spirit is clearly not her type, she's confused by the strange stirrings of her heart.

"Mei Lee is a confident, dorky thirteen-year-old torn between staying her mother's dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. And as if changes to her interests, relationships, and body weren't enough, whenever she gets too excited (which for a teenager is practically always), she 'poofs' into a giant red panda!"--Provided by publisher.

A thirteen-year-old girl and her mother gain a much more sympathetic understanding of each other after they somehow switch bodies and lives one Friday the thirteenth.

Four Chinese women, drawn together by the shadow of their past, meet in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and to "say" stories to each other. Nearly 40 years later, one of the women has died, and her daughter arrives to take her place. However, the daughter never expected to learn of her mother's secret lifelong wish - and the tragic way in which it has come true.