mothers and daughters

Rose McKenna works as a volunteer at her daughter Melly's school, hoping to keep an eye on Amanda, the girl who has been bullying Melly, but when an explosion throws the school into chaos, Rose must chose between saving her daughter and saving Amanda, and her decision threatens to destroy all their lives.

High school senior Sage tries to hide her mentally ill mother and get a popular football player to go out with her, but eventually she realizes that abandoning her real friends and letting herself be manipulated by others does not make her feel better after all.

Throughout her childhood, Melie believes her mother is two people, Rosy Mother and Dark Mother, and she performs more and more rituals to keep Dark Mother away as she reaches adolescence, when she begins to realize that her mother is mentally ill and that Melie may be, as well.

Seven years after being abandoned with her little brother at a Tennessee campground, fifteen-year-old Tessa Lee learns that her mother has been living two hours away.

Jess, a natural-born runner, is thrilled when she is chosen for the city track team, but her mother doesn't share her excitement; when her mother becomes ill, Jess, overcome by anger and then denial, attempts to deal with it alone, refusing to accept help or sympathy from even her closest friends.

March Murray returns to her New England hometown with her teenage daughter, supposedly to attend the funeral of her old housekeeper, but in the back of her mind March knows she is headed for a reunion with Hollis, the boy she has loved since childhood.

Maria Meyers travels to Ireland after learning her daughter, Pearl, has chained herself to the U.S. Embassy and not eaten for six weeks, leading Maria to question her daughter's upbringing and the circumstances that have brought her to this point.

A fact-based novel in which the author draws upon her own family history to trace four generations of African-American women from slavery on a Creole plantation to the pre-civil rights South.

Tanya, constantly at odds with her unreliable mother, is reluctant to go along when her mom decides to move the family from Cuba to America.

A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat.