mothers and daughters

Sixteen-year-old Sabine Durand, accustomed to the life of wealth and privilege provided by her aristocratic parents in Paris in 1776, begins to think for herself when she is introduced to American revolutionary Ben Franklin and stikes up a forbidden friendship with Michel.

Thirteen-year-old Shelby and her three sisters must go to live with their respective fathers while their mother, who has trained them to rely on their looks, recovers from a car accident that scarred her face.

In the early twentieth century, four sisters and their widowed mother, a famed spiritualist, travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances, journalist W.T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor, home, Tesla's inventions will either doom or save them all.

When the family's drugstore is failing, seventh-grader Lucy uses her problem-solving talents to come up with a solution that might resuscitate the business and help the environment.

After her mother dies in a rescue mission on a snowy mountain, twelve-year-old Roz wonders if talking to God, and to the boy for whom her mother died, can help her understand what happened.

Just when Zoe is starting to feel at home in Ambler, Pennsylvania, living with her veterinarian grandmother and learning about a flock of wild parrots, her actress mother arrives to take her to a new home in Los Angeles.

After her father's abandonment, Doria struggles to make a new life for herself and her mother in the projects of Paris.

Jessye loves living with her grandmother in a traditional Maori village, but when her free-wheeling mother comes back into her life, Jessye must decide whether to stay or move to the city.

While running errands with her mother, a young girl who likes to dress as a cowgirl tries to be helpful but her efforts always seem to backfire.

A collection of folktales from various cultures illuminate the mother-daughter relationship.