mothers and daughters

When five-year-old Jane gets her wish to have her mother switch places with her cat Puff, the resulting freedom to do anything she wants turns out to be less than perfect.

A play about a Southern woman who is anxious for her physically handicapped daughter to be married.

Nine-year-old Alice must write about herself for an assignment in her London school, and in doing so, she sorts out her feelings about her somewhat prickly single mother, the father she has never met, her flamboyant paternal grandmother, and the rest of her sometimes confusing life.

Twelve-year-old Marly Dee is convinced that all the problems that suddenly seem to assail her at home and at school are caused by the new boy, her sworn enemy, Dennis Cunningham.

Despite their poverty, Tollush and her mother find joy in simple things.

Twelve-year-old Alexandra tries to understand her relationship with her mother, father, and best friend.

West Virginia twelve-year-old Rabble Starkey learns lessons about the inevitability of change after she and her mother, Sweet-Ho, who gave birth to her at the age of fourteen and never had a chance to get ahead, move into Rabble's best friend's home.

Third grader Katherine finds that her mother's new job in the school cafeteria is causing her major problems and decides to take matters into her own hands.

Nikki need reassurance that her mother won't forget her when she goes out to work.

Having discovered a basket her mother made with her grandmother, Sarah wants to learn to make a basket, too, in keeping with her African heritage.