mothers and daughters

After her mother's sudden death, high school student Laura starts hunting for information about her mother's mysterious past, and in searching, uncovers some terrible secrets.

As she starts seventh grade, twelve-year-old Hannah can no longer ignore her mother's increasingly erratic behavior caused by drinking.

When thirteen-year-old Chrissa is sent to her paternal grandmother's farm, she learns more about her absent father and some of the reasons for her distant relationship with her mother.

Holly wishes that she had a "normal" mother instead of a fugitive from the Sixties who runs an antique shop filled with what most people think is junk.

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.