mothers and daughters

Nina and her mother move from place to place, never revealing anything of themselves, and causing Nina to wonder if they will ever stop hiding.

Sixteen-year-old Leenie is bitterly determined not to let the mother who left her as an infant back into her life, but a tentative friendship with a young photographer helps her see the situation from a new perspective.

Mallory, the daughter of a daytime soap opera diva, decides to write her own soap opera, geared towards teens, and is shocked when the network picks it up, sending Mallory's life into a spiral of chaos, self-doubt, and excitement as she deals with casting, friendships, romance, and her mother.

During one of her daily visits across town to visit her dying grandfather, fifteen-year-old Rosie discovers a dance studio that helps her find a way to bring her family members together.

Since her adoption, seventeen-year-old Frances has lived a quiet suburban life, but soon after she begins falling for the new boy at school, she receives a summons from her mentally ill birth mother, who has just been released--after serving eleven years for smothering Frances's younger sisters--and still wants to kill Frances.

A fictional account of a young girl's coming of age in Antigua, from a doted upon childhood to an adolescence fraught with events and alliances leading her away from mutual complacent acceptance.

After their father's death, the three Stoddard girls travel with their mother back to the family farm where they struggle to survive during the Dust Bowl and put all of their faith in the success of a wildcat oil well.

On a trip home to visit her parents, Khorii happens upon a derelict spacecraft drifting in space, its crew the subject of a deadly plague; and now Khorii is in a race against time to find the perpetrators and a cure before it destroys everyone.

Ginger Lee moves to New York to escape her controlling mother and life in Milwaukee, but when her mother thinks Ginger needs help running her life, she shows up on Ginger's doorstep, causing a series of hilarious, and embarrassing, encounters.

Back in San Francisco for her senior year in high school, seventeen-year-old Cyd attempts to reconcile with her boyfriend, Shrimp, making some girlfriends and beginning to feel more a part of her family in the process.