mothers and daughters

To avoid the violence of her stepfather, Vienna Fleury and her mother run away to a new city with no money and no where to go. As they begin to get their life back, Vienna enrolls in a new high school to finish her senior year. She even joins the grad committee. But Duncan finds Vienna and demands to know where her mother is.

Seventeen-year-old CJ Katsuyama's family sold their flower shop to a white man for next to nothing while they were interned during World War II. Thirty years later, the family bought the store back from that family, the McAllisters, who had prospered in the interim. Now the shop is in financial trouble and CJ's mother works for McAllister Venture Capital. CJ's mother pushes CJ to make something of her life, but CJ only seems to excel at arranging flowers, and she feels aimless. When secrets about the McAllister patriarch come to light, CJ and a group of student activists find something to rally behind, though it causes friction in the community and between CJ and her mother.

To avoid a suspension, high school senior Alaine Beauparlant agrees to an internship with her aunt's nonprofit in Haiti where she comes to respect her heritage while exploring her family's history, getting to know her estranged journalist mother, and experiencing the country of her ancestors.

Unexpectedly a thirteen-year-old girl is sent from the only family she knows back to her birth family, a noisy, chaotic group of people. She struggles to find her place and to connect with the woman who gave birth to her.

Sixteen-year-old Maddy is smart, deep-thinking, and funny, with loyal friends, a loving mother, and a crush on Jack. She also has cancer. Forced to mature quickly, Maddy tells her story, moving from their home in Pennsylvania to Washington, DC, and ultimately to London, searching for her dad, and for all of the life experiences she can have to defy her cancer.

Raised in isolation, Tarisai yearns for the closeness she could have as one of the Crown Prince's Council of 11, but her mother, The Lady, has magically compelled Tarisai to kill the Crown Prince.

Remy, a master at getting rid of boyfriends before any emotional attachments form, finds herself strangely unwilling to free herself from Dexter, a messy, disorganized, impulsive musician who she suspects she has come to love.

High schooler Kendra longs to live with her mother who, unprepared for motherhood at age fourteen, left Kendra in the care of her grandmother.

Gabriela Rivera is a sixth-grader with a serious peanut allergy, lots of artistic talent, one friend at her school, and a total lack of self-confidence--but when she meets Daisy, the owner and baker at Daisy's Desserts, who makes allergy free treats, she finally starts to gain some confidence in her own considerable abilities.

Victoria Torres has always had a family birthday party that she shares with her beloved grandmother, but this year she is so impressed by her classmate's birthday party at GlamaRama, the mall's newest spa store, that she decides that she wants to celebrate her twelfth birthday there--and her mother refuses to do both.