mothers and daughters

Lying in bed at night, Sarah wonders what life will be like when she moves to her new house, and her mother comes and reassures her.

Though Meredith goes to child care and her mother goes to work, they think of each other during the day and look forward to their time together.

A mother tells her own daughter what she was like and what she used to do when she was a little girl.

Mama and Grammy's humorous childhood anecdotes help Caitlin come to terms with her fear of spiders.

Fourteen-year-old Faye, an African American living in 1984 Brooklyn, New York, copes with her mother's abuse by stealing with her friends, but when robbing an elderly woman almost turns to murder, she gains an opportunity to learn new truths about life.

Parker Shelton pretty much has the perfect life. She's on her way to becoming valedictorian at Hundred Oaks High, she's made the all-star softball team, and she has plenty of friends. Then her mother's scandal rocks their small town and suddenly no one will talk to her. Now Parker wants a new life.

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

The author provides an account of her mother Nicola Fuller's life, from being raised in Kenya to moving around the continent with her husband in search of a home, and describes her devotion to her family and land.

Scarlet, an introverted high school junior surrounded by outcasts who find her a good listener, learns to break old patterns and reach for hope when her pregnant sister moves home with her new husband, with whom Scarlet feels an instant connection.

Eighteen-year-old Bronwen feels so out of place in her family that she invents an alter ego, Phoebe Lilywhite, but she comes to understand the need to figure out who she really is when she falls in love with Jared Sondervan and he asks her to become his wife.