mothers and daughters

Before Mama arrives for dinner, her daughters are desperate to make oxtail stew, her favorite dish, and make it right now.

Addie, a foster child who feels unloved, seeks comfort in the company of a beautiful pony and begins an enriching relationship with his owner, a proud woman who has alienated and lost her own daughter.

Etta May struggles to face her grandfather's inevitable death and to overcome her hostility toward the mother who abandoned her when she was a baby.

Running away after the random stabbing of her mother, a junior high school girl encounters a wounded coyote pup and nurses him in an abandoned root cellar in the Wisconsin woods.

Eleven-year-old Bethany has a list of worries, including her younger brother's speech development, the lack of popularity of some of her friends at school, and especially the fear that her mother can't cope with all of Bethany's worries.

When she is sent to stay with her aunt and uncle in rural Vermont while her mother finishes college, Cassie must adjust to a new school and a very different way of life.

A young child with a working mother, who spends each day after school with someone else, needs Mommy's reassurance of love.

Sarah saves her mother from a series of imaginary dangers, from lions in the Jaba-Jaba Jungle to scritchy-witchy things in the Gonagetcha Forest.

During the autumn of the year, thirteen-year-old Sarah learns her mother is dying of cancer.

Starting a new school year, everything is "easy-peasy, simple-pimple" for Charlie until her strict teacher assigns a tough school project and Charlie's mother loses her job.