mothers and daughters

Almost fourteen, Sara Jo tries to cope with her conflicting emotions when she goes to spend the summer with her mother, a reformed alcoholic who abandoned her when she was little.

Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years, but now that she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything.

Her music and a special friend help Beth, who now lives with her remarried father, through the difficult period following her mother's suicide.

During the summer before her senior year, a Catholic girl runs away from her well-meaning but narrow-minded mother and finds a job as a mother's helper.

Samantha Slayton's eleventh year includes losing her last baby teeth, towering over every boy in dance school, and being mortified by everything her mother does.

While her mother is treated for serious illness, Rosa stays with her aunt and cousin on a farm in the Black Forest.

Hattie Rabbit finds that mothers are sometimes difficult and sometimes helpful.

Figure skater Ekaterina Gordeeva writes her daughter Daria a letter that discusses her family's strengths, her love for her late husband, her dreams for Daria's future, and her love for Russia; includes pictures and illustrations.

Feeling more comfortable with her developing skills as a medium, eighth-grader Kat looks forward to the class trip to Montreal but once there she finds herself confronted by a cast of all new ghosts and a host of other problems.

Kat accompanies her best friend Jac to a musicians' conference at the Whispering Pines Mountain House, where she works to free the spirit of a dead medium and helps Jac resolve a serious conflict.