mothers

Squirrel gives his mother a special surprise on her birthday.

After losing her parents during the "Contamination," which turned people into crazed psychopaths, Velvet Ellis struggled to get by and raise her younger sister. Now that the victims of the Contamination are being rehabilitated, Velvet hopes to be able to rebuild her family -- but soon learns that the worst is yet to come.

After a chance meeting with a psychic, Olivia, a teen cook living in Los Angeles with her two dads and misfit brother, finds a vintage cookbook with handwritten notes inside and pieces together a story that turns a normal summer into a search for her birth mother.

Twelve-year-old Josh, his four-and-a-half-year-old brother Sammy, and his Dad struggle to find their own way to grieve his mothers death after she dies suddenly in an automobile accident but find that sharing memories and being close as a family is what works best.

While traveling to visit the mother she has not heard from in almost a year, Erin and another teenage girl become lost in the rugged Sierra Nevada mountains and must struggle for six days to survive.

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.