mothers and sons

Zeke would love to be invisible since his mother struggles to make ends meet and they live with her no-good boyfriend. When he gets a job at a pizza place to earn some extra money, he meets labor activists who want to give him a voice and a living wage. Zeke has to decide between trying to be invisible or letting his voice be heard.

On his seventeenth birthday, slacker Mason learns his absentee mother is a member of the Evonian royal family and, with a little hard work, his life as a royal could be more interesting than video games.

"Aspiring actor Blake Teller has just joined the theater troupe at Duncan High in Eastport, Maine--the town he can't wait to escape from. Blake and his newly single mom, Vera, are both still grieving over Blake's dad's departure to New York. But when Blake falls hard for his new scene partner, the openly gay Dustin Dern, he must reconsider his identity.Can Blake learn to be true to himself and open himself up toa real relationship with Dustin?"--Amazon.com.

Mr. Vaslov is building a drone to help him take care of Starwood Park, but that is Freddie's job, and Freddie's mother has a new boyfriend, but can Zapato Power help him cope with change?.

Benno is really excited for his first day of school, but Mommy wants him to stay at home with her.

Cameron is used to moving at a moment's notice because he and his mother are always running away from his supposedly violent father, but he is disturbed by their latest refuge, a creepy, deserted farmhouse, haunted by bloodthirsty dogs--and when he sees a boy hiding in the barn, and finds an old picture of the same boy, he starts wondering about the possibility of human ghosts.

In this rhyming adaptation for children of "Why a Son Needs a Mom: 100 Reasons" by Gregory E. Lang, a mother holds her newborn son and lists all the ways she will help him grow, reminding him to be curious, courageous, playful, and, most important, true to himself.

"Max is so close to finding his missing mom. Following a demon, he and Poe arrive back at the abandoned gas station. There, he finds more than he bargained for. And how can Poe leave him at a time like this?"--Back cover.

Eleven-year-old Lucky feels like the universe is conspiring against her as she faces troubles with her father, the health inspector, her school principal, and middle school boys.

When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.