mothers

Mother and daughter converse through poetry.

A collection of poems in which a daughter reflects on the death of her beloved mother.

As Irish teenager Gr?inne anxiously prepares for a reunion with her mother, who abandoned the family years before, Gr?inne's half-brothers and their mother take a dogsledding vacation in Finland.

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.

The death of an apparent stranger in the Steeple family's old home triggers troubling questions for sixteen-year-old Declan as he tries to make sense of his fragmented dreams, random memories, and unexplained coincidences, hoping to learn the truth about the mother who suddenly left when he was ten.

Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother's shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men, all the while dreaming of going to college and becoming a philosopher.

While Mom is trying to sleep, her children make too much noise in the morning.

In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.

A mommy assures her daughter of her love with hugs, smiles, treats, and lullabies.

A daughter describes her mother's job working as a miner.