mother-daughter relationship

For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother's considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother's demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Meduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother's) obsession with the mirror--and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass.

When her mother is injured in a car accident, twelve-year-old Franny's tries to keep their fragile world intact by taking over her mom's cleaning jobs.

Through a bedtime story to her daughters, a woman weaves together her immigration story and Pilipino mythology. Includes glossary, songs, and author's note.

A girl takes a walk with her mom and reviews objects she has kept in her pockets and what they bring to mind.

"There's only one gift Isabel wants for her sixth birthday: a way to see invisible things. She can hardly think of anything else! Finally, the day of her party arrives. Unwrapping a big box, Isabel finds a surprise inside--a glass prism--and a dazzling world of previously invisible color emerges, lighting up the room around her. What else could be out there, waiting for her eyes to discover? . . . Author and physicist Alan Lightman unveils the hidden world of light waves--the ones you can see and the ones you can't"--Provided by publisher.

"Take a walk down memory lane with the Gilmore girls as they reminisce on the moments that made Stars Hollow the perfect home for a young mother and daughter . . . See the potting shed behind the Independence Inn where the girls made their home, experience how Rory and Lane first met, and celebrate the seasons with the whole community of Stars Hollow"--Provided by publisher.

Refusing to brush her hair, which is now home to a mother bird and her three colorful eggs, Fia shows off her tangle-knot wherever she goes, much to her Mom's chagrin, until her commitment to being herself changes her mother's mind.

"A powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and The Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them together"--Provided by publisher.

Abby must leave behind her friends and grandparents to return to her mother on the northern Ontario Bear Creek Reserve, where she gradually undergoes a self-discovery as she rediscovers the Ojibwa way of life.

Thirteen-year-old former elite gymnast Eden is feeling lost after a career-ending injury, but when she meets new friends who open her eyes to period poverty, the struggle that low-income people have trying to afford menstrual products, she becomes an advocate for fair treatment and rediscovers her passion and drive.