mothers and daughters

Debbie has a hard time connecting with her adoptive mother and wishes she could be more like her coach who knows everything about hockey.

Sixteen-year-old Giselle, who has buried herself in her dance studies and thoughts of her late father for a decade, comes to terms with her relationship with her famous ballerina mother and newly surfaced memories of her father's abuse when she ventures out of the world of the Manhattan elite and meets a charming boy named Will.

Two sisters, Cat and Joely Doyle face an emotional journey of healing when their mother has a stroke and their father finally returns after three decades.

Fourteen-year-old Kit Pitman has always lead a sheltered life in a small town on the outer banks of Newfoundland, where her mentally-challenged mother and strict grandmother hide the truth about Kit's illegitimate birth, but when Kit's grandmother dies unexpectedly, she and her mother are thrust into the harsh realities of life.

As she begins high school, fourteen-year-old Carolina tries to come to terms with the death of her father and older sister, while dealing with difficult relationships with her mother and best friend and a budding romance with the boy next door.

Chronicles the changing relationship between Tracy and her overprotective, famous-author mother, and Tracy's struggle to help a close friend who's experimenting with drugs.

Ah-Kim Chang and her mother immigrate to Brooklyn, where they work for Kim's Aunt Paula in a Chinatown clothing factory earning barely enough to keep them alive; however, Kim's perseverance and hard work earns her a place at an elite private school where she is befriended by Annette, who helps her adjust to American culture.

San Francisco ghostwriter Ruth Young finally begins to understand her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother LuLing's preoccupation with ghosts and curses when she reads Luling's writings of her dark backwoods childhood in 1920s China--where LuLing's mute, disfigured nursemaid committed suicide, and a nearby cave held what may have been the bones of the lost ancient hominid Peking Man.

When 12-year-old Lacey and her mother return to Southern Appalachia to live, her grandmother does not approve of the independent lifestyle of Lacey's mother. A tragedy makes clear the meaning of love and family as everyone learns to grieve and to accept.