mothers and daughters

With the help of a neighbor, a young girl plants some pansies as a birthday surprise for her mother.

Although she sometimes resents her mother's work as a witch, a young girl decides to keep her mother just the way she is.

Dinah wishes horrible things for her mother when the two have a fight.

While at the beach, Mary and her mother see letters, numbers, colors, shapes, and more.

Tallahassee lives with her freespirited mother, but when Mother goes to L.A. to try her luck in TV and movies, Tallahassee goes with her uncle whose conventional lifestyle makes her question her mother's values--and her own.

Matilda struggles to give her mother a birthday surprise.

A thirteen-year-old girl gains a much more sympathetic understanding of her relationship with her mother when she has to spend a day in her mother's body.

As she struggles to cope with a difficult mother and find her place in the world, young Nealy Compton finds solace in the relative solitude and safety beneath her neighbor's porch.

Leslie has trouble relating to her mother and turns instead to her new journalism advisor at school, until a moment of crisis puts a different perspective on things.

A little girl and her mother stay up late to watch a shower of shooting stars.