mothers and daughters

Unaware of one another's mutual discontent, a mother and daughter embark on parallel quests to escape their unhappy suburban lives, and while seventeen-year-old Cammy, convinced she was actually adopted, is drawn into a world of sex and drugs, her mother, Sam, begins an adulterous affair.

While coping with her grandmother's sudden death and her mother's resulting depression and fascination with a spiritualist church, whose ministers claim to communicate with the dead, fifteen-year-old Liz finds herself falling for a new neighbor whose mother is dying of cancer.

Presents a collection of connected short stories that follows a young girl, Ann Ransom, from her childhood and adolescence to adulthood.

Brilliant, seventeen-year-old Beth's newly acquired psychic abilities lead her to uncover secrets about her past, bond her to an attractive young man, and send her from Illinois to New York to rendevous with six similarly gifted young women.

Zoey has always dreamed that one of her dolls would come to life to play with her, but when her princess doll is transformed into a tiny girl, Zoey finds herself being treated like a servant instead of having fun with her new friend.

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.

Annemarie, a world-class equestrienne whose dreams of Olympic glory were destroyed at age eighteen when she was injured and her horse killed in a riding accident, returns to her parents' riding school in New Hampshire twenty years later as a divorced mother with her troubled daughter in tow, and finds herself drawn back into the world she had vowed to leave behind forever.

Having left boarding school to live in a London hotel with her famous mother, thirteen-year-old Hollywood Bliss Winterman attempts to lead a normal life despite her parent's attempts to turn her into a celebrity.

Thirteen-year-old Holly moves to New York with her superstar mom but finds trouble in the form of her father, a new pet, and especially a boy named Shug.