mothers and daughters

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.

"When youth sleuth Sammy Keyes travels to Las Vegas to stop her mom from marrying her boyfriend's dad, she never expects she'll learn the identity of her absent father in the process"--Provided by publisher.

Thirteen-year-old Cissy must discover what family means to her as she is caught in a struggle between her aunt and mother in Depression-era Colorado.

Sixteen-year-old Kat, whose mother is a home-birth midwife, feels betrayed when a popular, beautiful classmate gets pregnant and forms a bond with Kat's mother that Kat herself never had.

Alternating passages describe the experiences of a mother and her biological daughter when each is sixteen-years-old, as one becomes unexpectedly pregnant and the other decides whether to find her birth mother.

Zoey has always dreamed that one of her dolls would come to life to play with her, but when her princess doll is transformed into a tiny girl, Zoey finds herself being treated like a servant instead of having fun with her new friend.

A little girl fills the pocketbook she carries with mementos of the places she and her mother visit when they go to town.

When the family's drugstore is failing, seventh-grader Lucy uses her problem-solving talents to come up with a solution that might resuscitate the business and help the environment.

After participating in a cruel prank on a classmate, fourteen-year-old Robin and her mother move to Oklahoma, where Robin is mistaken for the substitute principal and receives a new perspective on bullying.

Thirteen-year-old Sherry is visited by the ghost of her mother, who asks Sherry to help solve a case that involves rhinoceros poaching at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, and Sherry's involvement not only helps save the rhinos, but it also brings mother and daughter closer together than ever before.