mothers and daughters

Ella tries to give her handicapped daughter Lena a normal life, but when she discovers that Lena has a mind of her own, Ella must contend with letting her daughter go.

In 1946, high schooler Dewey Kerrigan is beginning to adjust to living with the Gordon family near the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, but the arrival of her mother, who wants to take her back, changes everything.

A mother and daughter, who mainly communicate through short notes left on the refrigerator door, experience a life changing event when one of them is diagnosed with breast cancer.

In small-town Carolina, sixteen-year-old Lutie Painter treasures the "Laundry List" of songs written by her ancestor and does not want to share them, but ultimately they help her learn more about her absent mother and connect with fellow students Kelvin, Doria, and especially Train, a former friend.

When the ghost of Holly's mother claims she was murdered by Holly's aunt, Claudia, Holly must decide how far she will go to get revenge.

When her famous romance-novelist mother is secretly hospitalized in an expensive mental facility, sixteen-year-old Alice tries to fulfill her mother's contract with her publisher by writing a love story--with the help of Cupid.

Although tough-talking Harry Sue would like to start a life of crime in order to be "sent up" and find her incarcerated mother, she must first protect the children at her neglectful grandmother's home day care center and befriend a paralyzed boy.

Three immigrant girls from different parts of the world meet and become close friends in a small New Jersey town where their mothers have found domestic work, but their relationships are tested when one girl's mother is accused of stealing a precious heirloom.

A collection of poems that retell the histories of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, cosmetics entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker, and Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie and their daughters.

When Phoenix, Arizona, seventh-grader Sherry Baldwin hosts a makeover sleepover that causes horrible reactions in her friends' skin, she enlists the help of her mother, a ghost detective at the Academy of Spirits, to help solve the mystery of the tainted makeup.