mothers and daughters

"A small town pianist ponders a new life away from her embarassing mother when a beautiful girl shows up and changes everything"--.

When Megan is detained by a police officer after an out-of-control protest, she learns that her mother has been living under a fake name, and her father is a convicted terrorist. As rumors spread and accusations rise all around her, Megan worries that her father's destructive legacy will become hers, too.

Presents the alternating stories of four Chinese women in pre-1949 China and their American-born daughters in California.

Follows the life of Bride, a young African American woman, as she forms connections with a man named Booker and a white child named Rain while trying to get close to her emotionally distant mother.

After spending time in a juvenile detention center for a crime related to severe anger issues, seventeen-year-old Jada Robinson is sent to a foster home and enrolled in an alternative high school, and begins to move past her old life.

Sixteen-year-old Chelsea has always been overweight, and now in high school she is being unmercifully teased by other students, and even her mother gives her no support--not even to compliment her beautiful singing voice. In film class she is assigned work on a film with Melody and for the first time she finds someone other than her father who does not criticize her, and finally finds the confidence to try out for the school choir.

To avoid the violence of her stepfather, Vienna Fleury and her mother run away to a new city with no money and no where to go. As they begin to get their life back, Vienna enrolls in a new high school to finish her senior year. She even joins the grad committee. But Duncan finds Vienna and demands to know where her mother is.

Seventeen-year-old CJ Katsuyama's family sold their flower shop to a white man for next to nothing while they were interned during World War II. Thirty years later, the family bought the store back from that family, the McAllisters, who had prospered in the interim. Now the shop is in financial trouble and CJ's mother works for McAllister Venture Capital. CJ's mother pushes CJ to make something of her life, but CJ only seems to excel at arranging flowers, and she feels aimless. When secrets about the McAllister patriarch come to light, CJ and a group of student activists find something to rally behind, though it causes friction in the community and between CJ and her mother.

To avoid a suspension, high school senior Alaine Beauparlant agrees to an internship with her aunt's nonprofit in Haiti where she comes to respect her heritage while exploring her family's history, getting to know her estranged journalist mother, and experiencing the country of her ancestors.

Unexpectedly a thirteen-year-old girl is sent from the only family she knows back to her birth family, a noisy, chaotic group of people. She struggles to find her place and to connect with the woman who gave birth to her.