mothers

Four siblings struggle to maintain a seminormal home life when their single mother's alcoholism becomes debilitating.

Julian Drew, attempting to cope with the recent death of his mother and an abusive step-mother, writes in a code in three notebooks in which he documents his changing life in code.

When Hazel and her beloved doll Eleanor are set upon by bullies, Hazel's mother comes to the rescue in a surprising way.

An overweight, timid fifteen-year-old boy and his popular fourteen-year-old sister begin to overcome their guilt over their father's death and reconnect with each other and their emotionally-distant mother when they accompany her on a two-week speaking tour.

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.

The Liz Kendall everyone knows would never hurt a fly, so devoted she is to creating a loving home to raise her two children in. However, there is another side, another personality, that will do anything to get her dark and malicious way. Now, Liz's alter ego is taking control, and the consequences will be devastating.

"When Albie's mother dies from cancer, his father explains that she may be alive in a parallel universe, so he decides to universe-hop and find her with the help of a banana, a laptop, and a box"--OCLC.

"In this ode to hardworking mommies everywhere, they may not always be fun or neat, but their toddlers love them no matter what"--Provided by publisher.

A collection of poems by American poet Forrest Gander in which he reflects on his mother's death, the geological and cultural history of the U.S. border with Mexico, and other topics.

"[A narrative poem that follows] Sophia, an El Salvadorian mother facing a mountain of obstacles, carrying with her the burdern of all that has come before--her husband's murder, a wrenching separation from her young son at the border, then rape and abuse at the hands of ICE, yet persevering--[and repeating a montra] as she wills her boy to know she is on a quest to find him"--Back cover.