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.
Embarrassed by her mother's antics and eager to have a "normal" mother like her best friend Melissa has, Tina tells everyone her mom is really her babysitter.
Trying to undo the spell of the evil Dally Rumpe, Beatrice travels to Werewolf Close, where she meets two of her mother's aunts and learns something about her mother's past.
Sixteen-year-old Maria leaves her father and grandmother in Red Hill, South Carolina, to live with her mother, an artist who lives with her young boyfriend in a tiny apartment in Manhattan's Lower East Side.
After her father suffers a stroke, fifteen-year-old Lou must relocate from Alberta to Victoria to live with her mother Zoe, a successful novelist who abandoned Lou at birth and showed no interest in her until she was twelve.
Estrella is about to turn fifteen and she's dreading the traditional celebration her mother has planned including a mariachi band and an ugly dress. She feels that this party would embarrass her in front of her private school friends.
Emily Black, whose mother left her when she was an infant and went on tour, forms her own punk band with the hope that music will help her find her long lost parent.
