mothers and daughters

The discovery of a raven in the chimney of her New York City apartment proves to be a harbinger of change in Kelsey's secure life as her friendship with her best friend fractures and her mother falls in love.

Because her mother is dying, Tommy is sent to live with her estranged father, and she gradually comes to understand him and the death of the woman they both love.

When her father dies, ten-year-old Rebecca is sent to live with the mother she's been brought up to believe had abandoned her and, through a growing relationship with a troubled foster child, begins to accept her mother and some of the truths her father had always kept from her.

Thirteen-year-old Sarabeth Silver's life is turned upside-down when her mother dies suddenly, leaving her orphaned, confused, and at the mercy of everyone who seems to know what is best for her.

"Seventeen-year-old Parker Frost has never taken the road less traveled. Valedictorian and quintessential good girl, she's about to graduate high school without ever having kissed her crush or broken the rules. So when fate drops a clue in her lap--one that might be the key to unraveling a town mystery--she decides to take a chance"--Provided by publisher.

When Bee aces her report card she claims her reward, which is a trip to Antarctica, but her mother, Bernadette, disappears due to her intensifying allergy to Seattle and people in general, which has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands and Bee uses emails, invoices, school memos, private correspondence, and other evidence to try and understand why her mother has left.

Fifteen-year-old Patty Ho, half Taiwanese and half white, feels she never fits in, but when her overly-strict mother ships her off to math camp at Stanford, instead being miserable, Patty starts to become comfortable with her true self.

Eleventh-grader Rainey and five other students embark on a cross-country field trip that will change her life forever as she discovers her true calling, learns the truth about her mother, who abandoned her years earlier, and begins a new relationship with a fellow classmate.

Writer Rose Steiner, who is suffering from writers' block and needs money, decides to finish her dead lover's novel; meanwhile Rose's daughter and assistant falls in love with Gavin Clancy, a young author.

Ruby Prosser longs for escape from the Congregation and the early-nineteenth-century lifestyle the community practices, even though she knows the Congregants need her blood to survive, but when she meets Ford, the new Overseer, who holds the promise to access to the modern world, her will to stay weakens.