mothers and daughters

Deeply wounded by her embittered mother's lack of sympathy for her aspirations, Elnora finds comfort in the nearby Limberlost Swamp, whose beauty and rich abundance provide her with the means to better her life.

A slightly overweight, broke, and bored fifteen-year-old slowly learns to handle her two major problems--her eating habits and her mother.

Fifteen-year-old Roxie cannot get along with her mother, whose slow recovery from a stroke has made home life difficult, and envies her best friend until a crisis of conscience threatens to change that relationship forever.

A mother brings her teenage daughter and their horse, Pilgrim, both seriously injured by a speeding truck, to the Horse Whisperer in Montana.

While trying to understand her mother, who abandoned her as a child, eighteen-year old Sara takes a summer job as caretaker at a Victorian restoration site and encounters a foundling and two ghosts.

When fourteen-year-old Kelly is sent off to Florida after her mother's nervous breakdown to stay with her rigid grandparents, she learns the meaning of love and support.

Fifteen-year-old Eli Smyth is embarrassed about her mother's work as a foam rubber French fry for a fast food restaurant and jealous of her friend Grace's two cool fathers, and when Eli's mother gets pregnant, it forces Eli to make some significant changes.

Amy experiences sickness for the first time and she must rely on her mother to find a cure.

The life choices of a mother and daughter are reassessed as the mother lies dying of cancer.

When her mother is accused of embezzling a million dollars and vanishes, spoiled and selfish Ashley must fend for herself by finding a job and a place to live.