mother-daughter relationship

Best friends Gabby, Priya, and Mindy's dog business, PAWS, is booming, but Mindy between her mom starting to date and a new classmate wanting to join PAWS, Mindy is having a hard time sharing her feeling with her friends.

"Twelve-year-old Astrid Xu stumbles upon an ancient Chinese scroll that she hopes is the key to curing her mother's depression, but when it transports her and her younger sister Marilla to a realm where Chinese legends are real, they suddenly find themselves caught in a war between good and evil"--OCLC.

A little girl learns to love each part of herself, from her spectacular hair to her big heart.

Summer vacation quickly becomes complicated for Felicity Becker as she tries to plan a perfect wedding for her mom, figure out her feelings for her friend Nancy, and wonder what dating will look like for her as an asexual person.

"Ten-year-old Julia loves the mysteries of the ocean and marine biology, just like her scientist mother. Her family is spending the summer on a remote island where her mom is searching for the elusive Greenland shark . . Determined to prove that the shark is real, Julia sets off on a quest to find it herself, armed with a set of coordinates, a compass, and her trusty rain jacket. She soon realizes that there are some journeys you shouldn't go on alone. As Julia comes face to face with the dark and wondrous truths of the sea, she finds the strength to leave the shark in the depths and kick up towards the light"--Provided by publisher.

The personal, often painful, histories of four Chinese American women who began meeting in San Francisco in 1949 to play mah jong are revealed as the daughter of one who has died searches for her sisters in China to tell them about the mother they never knew.

Lily and Charlotte are as different as two thirteen-year-olds can be, but they are spending the summer together in a small beach house because their parents are dating; trouble is, they can not stop sniping at each other--until an accident gives them a new perspective on their lives.

Kristina Wandzilak describes her years of addiction to alcohol and drugs, her terrible experiences on the streets, and her process of recovery, while her mother, Constance Curry, chronicles the family's struggles and her own recovery from codependency.

Twelve-year-old Kasienka and her mother have immigrated to Coventry, England from Poland, searching for Kasienka's father, but everyone is unfriendly except for an African neighbor and a boy Kasienka meets at the swimming pool, which is her only refuge from an alien society.

When twelve-year-old goth girl Juillet and thirteen-year-old surfer girl Summer meet, they set aside their painful pasts and begin to transform into the people they would like to be.