mothers and daughters

As she watches her friends with their fathers, fourteen-year-old Jessie decides the family she shares with her mother and her great-great-aunt is not enough, so she sets out to learn more about the father who left when she was just a baby.

After the death of her father, fourteen-year-old Kristie gradually sorts out her feelings about her older half brothers with whom she lives in a small Arizona town and about the mother who had left her years ago.

Miranda Popescu challenges the mad Baroness Ceausescu and finds herself in the middle of a dangerous political and diplomatic firestorm.

Miranda Popescu's world is turned upside down when she learns she is a princess in Bucharest and that her native country's political and economic future rests on her shoulders.

Fourteen-year-old Ellie fights to keep her life together while her emotionally unstable mother deteriorates and her rebellious older sister begins to hang out with a rough crowd.

When thirteen-year-old Sadie finds her mother's note saying she has to "get away for awhile, " Sadie is left to manage a bed and breakfast in the Welsh countryside by herself, while at the same time trying to cover her mother's absence.

Because she has grown up in the image of her outspoken mother, Anne finds herself in the Pennsylvania coal region working with labor activists.

Determined to satisfy her curiosity about her unknown father, eighteen-year-old Angela May embarks on an emotional journey that shapes and forever alters the way she looks at herself, her unconventional mother, and her devoted friend Tycho.

Ruthie's burgeoning friendship with Denise occurs at a time when she finds it increasingly difficult to cope with the sadness, fear, and pain that fills her home as a result of her parents' experiences in Nazi Germany.

Fourteen-year-old Mary feels like a misfit, both in England where her family lives and in Ireland where they're from, until she and her family visit her grandmother and other relatives in Ireland and Mary gains a better understanding of her background, her mother, and herself.