mothers

After a stack of Harry Potter books kill Ren's mother, she finds herself trapped in a Connecticut suburb with her father who grieves too much to live in New York. But when a new friend at school confides to Ren that she is communicating online with an older man, Ren comes up with a plan to stop it.

The author chronicles her decision to raise her daughters, Sophia and Lulu, in a way that reflects the Chinese way of childrearing, which puts an emphasis on preparing them for the future, by demanding that her children perform at the top of their classes in all subjects besides drama and physical education, play the piano or violin, and spend their time studying and practicing rather than playing with other kids.

During her solitary convalescence from a crippling accident, twelve-year-old Charley finds a wild dog, and the arduous process of training him leads her to explore her feelings about her mother's death two years earlier.

A surprise is in store as three children prepare breakfast in bed for their mother.

A mother's love is endless and boundless. Amy felt that with Nancy. A stranger claiming to he her real mother wants Amy back.

Twelve year old Ava must travel into the Underworld part of the swamp in order to save her family's dynasty of Bigtree alligator wresting. This novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator wrestling theme park, formerly no. 1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava's mother, the park's indomitable headliner, has just died; her sister, Ossie, has fallen in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, who may or may not be an actual ghost; and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, who dreams of becoming a scholar, has just defected to the World of Darkness in a last ditch effort to keep their family business from going under. Ava's father, affectionately known as Chief Bigtree, is AWOL; and that leaves Ava, a resourceful but terrified thirteen, to manage ninety eight gators as well as her own grief. Against a backdrop of hauntingly fecund plant life animated by ancient lizards and lawless hungers, the author has written a novel about a family's struggle to stay afloat in a world that is inexorably sinking.

Luna and her family still struggle with their grief over her mother's death, over a year since she was struck and killed by a taxi, but after Luna goes to finally clean out her mother's studio she discovers her cell phone, fully charged and with seven unheard voicemails, and after Luna listens to the messages she learns unexpected truths about her mother and begins to wonder whether her death was really an accident.

If his mother has made other important mistakes, can Nick trust her word that there are no goblins and such lurking around in the night?.

Mrs. Large tries to take a peaceful, relaxing bath but her family has other ideas.

In love with the girl he sneezed on the first day of school and best pals with Marshall, the "One Eyed Jack" of friends, seventh-grader Milo Cruikshank misses his mother whose death has changed everything at home.