mothers

Bel, eighteen, has lived her life in the aftermath of her mother's mysterious disappearance sixteen years ago, when Bel was a toddler--and the only witness to what actually happened. Wishing everyone would accept her mother is probably dead and move on, Bel is horrified when her family agrees to film a true-crime documentary, and then shocked to her core when her mother returns alive during the filming. The cameras still rolling, Bel must figure out if her mother is lying about what really happened, why, and if her mother is dangerous.

"There are lots of things to do in the city, but Boo chooses to play hoops. Join the action as you practice reading words in which 'oo' makes a long vowel sound"--Back cover.

William Wyatt Orser's life is turned upside down after his mother has a stroke, but the socially awkward, word-loving twelve-year-old finds glimmers of hope when he discovers friends who share his love of wordplay and books.

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.

Describes the things a mother does.

A young girl dresses up like Mom.

A young girl dresses up like Mom and rides the escalator while shopping.

"The twelve-year-old daughter of La Llorona vows to free her mother and reverse the curses that have plagued the magical town of Tres Leches"--Provided by publisher.

On her eighth birthday her father gives Nola a music box that belonged to her late mother--and discovers that inside it is the magical world of Pandorient, and a pair of siblings named Andrea and Igor who need her help for their sick mother.

Maelstrom is the half-demon prince of a kingdom ruled by his tyrannical necromancer mother, and he is seeking a break from boredom, so he finds himself teaming up with Twigs, the young, prophesied Hero of Virtue fated to face him, to join the resistance. They set out on a mission to stop Maelstrom's mother and forge a new destiny for him, but Maelstrom is soon forced to decide where his loyalties truly lie.