mothers and daughters

Presents a story of precious family memories, based on the author's discovery of a beloved old rag doll wrapped in a letter written by her mother who had died a year earlier.

Taking care of her younger brother and a loving but flighty mother has made Falcon very responsible for an eleven-year-old, but she needs the help of her great-great aunt, a friendly neighbor, and an ornithologist when she finds a unusual egg in Central Park.

Living in a rural community in Wisconsin during the 1950s, eleven-year-old Amanda gradually and painfully learns a lot about herself, her parents, and her older sister.

While learning to swim with Mama, Annie discovers that by using her imagination she can float like a fish, paddle like a puppy, dive like a dolphin, and sneak like a shark.

On a starry night a girl and her mother climb the hill above their farm, watching and listening to the natural world around them.

An East Indian American daughter pleads with her mother to be allowed to wear one of her mother's colorful saris in honor of her seventh birthday.

Although tough-talking Harry Sue would like to start a life of crime in order to be "sent up" and find her incarcerated mother, she must first protect the children at her neglectful grandmother's home day care center and befriend a paralyzed boy.

When a young girl has a series of mishaps at home one day, her mother tries not to lose her temper-- and does not quite succeed.

Like her mother, a professional medium, Kat has been able to see dead people since turning thirteen, and although they would prefer to be normal, Kat and her best friend come to terms with their own talents while helping free the spirit of a girl trapped at their middle school.

Edie Burchill travels to Middlehurst Castle, the longtime residence of the Blythe spinsters, to seek out information about her mother, who was billeted there as a thirteen-year-old during World War II, and winds up finding out more than she imagined.