mothers and daughters

Despite her mother's objections, sixteen-year-old Caitlin determines to pursue her dream of becoming an opera singer by attending a performing arts school in Miami.

Sweetness, a light-skinned African American, never gave her dark-skinned daughter, Bride, her full love because of the hue of her skin. As an adult, Bride is beautiful and successful, but she has never overcome that childhood rejection, something Sweetness is only now coming to understand.

Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.

"A picture book about a little girl who has a big night out with her mother at an awards show"--.

"Eleven-year-old (nearly twelve) Celi Rivera, who is a mix of Black-Puerto Rican-Indigenous Mexican is secretive about her approaching period, and the changes that are happening to her body. She is horrified that her mother wants to hold a traditional public moon ceremony to celebrate the occasion. She must choose loyalty to her life-long best friend who is contemplating an even more profound change of life or the boy she likes"--Provided by publisher.

A young Muslim girl named Yasmin cannot figure out who her personal hero is, and she is supposed to write about her hero for class. Then her teacher, Ms. Alex, gives her an idea.

Carol Olivia Clementine wishes her parents did not live so far away, but Mama Rose provides a home, loves her, and cares for her just like a mother would.

Sixteen-year-old Maddie Flynn cannot help but see the death date of everyone she meets or sees in a photograph or on-screen, and her alcoholic mother exploits this by having her do readings for money, but when Maddie predicts the death of a young boy, she becomes the center of an FBI investigation.

Ruby's imagination turns everyday objects, like a house for sale and a tabby cat, into frightening surprises on her walk to school with her Mum.

Louisa May Alcott's classic novel about the relationship of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies during the mid-nineteenth century in New England.