mothers

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mothers

The terrible thing that happened at our house

1975
A youngster relates the terrible problems that occurred after her mother went to work and how the family solved them.

Before I was your mother

2007
A mother tells her own daughter what she was like and what she used to do when she was a little girl.

Mistik Lake

2007
After Odella's mother leaves her, her sisters, and their father in Manitoba and moves to Iceland with another man, she then dies there, and the family finally learns some of the many secrets that have haunted them for two generations.

Give me one wish

1988
The story of a young girl growing up in the 70s and early 80s and who died from cystic fibrosis at twenty-one.

Petit singe cherche son refuge =

Little monkey's one safe place
2008
Illustrations and simple text written in both English and French that tells a story about a little monkey who looks all over the jungle trying to find his one safe place and discovers that none of the places seem quite right to him.

Moi aussi, je t'aime

2005
A little puppy brings his "mama" a gift and inspires his animal friends to do the same for their mothers.

Secrets of my suburban life

2008
Ren, forced to move from New York to the suburbs of Connecticut with her grief-stricken dad after her mother is killed in a freak accident, cannot seem to fit in at her new school--thanks primarily to popular snob Farrin, but when she finds out Farrin is involved in an online relationship with an older man, she discovers friends she never knew she had.

In search of Mockingbird

2007
On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Erin receives her long-dead mother's diary, which reveals that she too revered Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" and wanted to be a writer, and Erin impulsively decides to take the Greyhound bus from St. Paul, Minnesota to Monroeville, Alabama, to visit the reclusive author.

Falling From Fire

2002
Fourteen-year-old Teri is trying to find out where she fits in, both at home and at school, and when her house burns down in a fire, she thinks she may get a fresh start.

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