mothers and daughters

Amanda Bahringer, a bright, impressionable student at a prestigious boarding school, struggles to measure up to everyone's demands, from her mother to her instructors, as she tries to gain the credentials needed for admission to Dartmouth.

On a cold winter's night in 1979, Grace Meade, a World War II widow who worked in the Resistance, is found tortured and killed in quiet Havenwood, Minnesota, her home of more than thirty years--and the prime suspect is her daughter.

Martha Tod Dudman discusses how she dealt with her daughter's drug addiction.

In Charlottesville, Virginia, amidst the social and political turmoil of 1969, eleven-year-old Alice learns when to fight battles and when to let go from her family's elderly gardener, Doc, and begins to connect with her widowed mother.

Emily accompanies Mommy downtown to see where she works.

Her feelings toward her alcoholic mother vary as Maureen struggles to understand her mother's illness.

An antique doll helps a young girl whose mother has carefully protected her from traditional sex roles achieve self-assurance and personal definition.

Hazelle, taken to live in an orphanage after her mother is hospitalized, is forced to leave New York and travel to Texas on an orphan train, but she is lucky enough to be adopted by an understanding family that helps her find out what happened to her mom. Based on true events.

A little girl asks many questions about the world while taking a walk with her mother.

In 1967 Tanzania, when President Nyerere urges his people to work together as one extended family, the people of Litongo move to a new village which, to some, seems cursed, but where thirteen-year-old Shida, a healer, and her female cousins are allowed to attend school. Includes glossary and author's note.