mothers

Anxious to distract his "overly" strict mother, twelve-year-old Stuart and his best friend, a girl named Mack, determine to fix her up with Mack's Uncle Joe.

A lonely little bird named Choco goes in search of a mother.

"A young girl goes on a cross-country adventure with her scooter only to discover the true meaning of home"--Provided by publisher.

Fiona, struggling to cope with the accidental death of her mother a year earlier, decides she is going to expose all of the liars and fools in her life after her father's girlfriend claims to be a psychic who can communicate with the dead.

As the family gathers at her grandmother's bed-and-breakfast for a murder mystery weekend, seventeen-year-old Jen confronts her ambivalent feelings about her mother, who disappeared fourteen years earlier, and about the possibility that she might be dead.

In 1910, just before the Earth passes through the tail of Halley's Comet, thirteen-year-old Hope McDaniels, whose father is a magician in a traveling vaudeville show, tries to earn enough money to quit the circuit by selling "anti-comet pills," with the help of fellow-performer Buster Keaton.

A collection of 101 stories by and about mothers who stay at home or work from home, describing the decision they made to do this, their lives as moms who are at home, the ups and downs of raising their children, the benefits of staying home or working from home. Also includes stories of appreciation from husbands and children.

After years of drinking, being rejected by his wife and daughter, and a suicide attempt, ex-baseball star Charley Benetto returns to his childhood home where he encounters the ghost of his mother, who tells him family secrets and guides him in making his life better.

Australian teenager Bindy finds it hard to cope when her best friend of many years suddenly finds other friends and interests and her divorced parents present her with choices that could change everything about her way of life.

The biracial daughter of an African-American father and a Japanese mother fondly recalls growing up with her mother and her father's mother, two very different but equally loving women.