mothers and daughters

"Jayce Loewen is used to taking care of herself and her her little sister while their mom works two jobs to support them. But when her mother gets cancer, Jayce decides she can't go it alone, and sets out to find her long-absent father"--OCLC.

Sixteen-year-old Chelsea has always been overweight, and now in high school she is being unmercifully teased by other students, and even her mother gives her no support, despite her beautiful singing voice--but in film class she is assigned work on a film with Melody and for the first time she finds someone other than her father who does not criticize her, and finally finds the confidence to try out for the school choir.

Seventeen-year-old Dani struggles with how to process the ambiguous grief she feels in the aftermath of her mother's death after moving to New Mexico with an aunt she never met.

A rabbit named Roxy has a temper tantrum at the grocery store.

Amelia Bedelia suggests that her Mom, who is feeling blue, go on a play date while Amelia Bedelia is doing the same, and then enlists her friends to help make chalk drawings on the house, sidewalk, and more to brighten Mom's day with her favorite things.

After being expelled from a fancy boarding school, Cyd Charisse's problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer and is subsequently sent from San Francisco to New York City to spend time with her biological father.

A guide to raising girls with a strong sense of self-esteem, offering a variety of everyday ways to strengthen a girl's sense of autonomy, instill pride in being female, and ensure confidence throughout her lifetime.

Fifteen-year-old Maddie is thrilled to finally take a trip to New York City with her friends Anna and Thomas, but her unpredictable, eccentric mother shows up two days into the trip and threatens to derail everything.

Seventeen-year-old Olivia Dresden can literally see the path to goodness in each person. Her precognition means that different versions of people's futures flicker before her eyes. Forced into isolation, she can only watch as her mother, Chairwoman Dresden, chooses the dark, destructive course every time. Yet she remains fiercely loyal to the woman her mother could be until the full extent of her mother's gruesome plan is revealed. Olivia must find the courage to live in the present--and stop her mother before she destroys the world.

In alternating chapters, teens Tasha and Josie tell how each becomes temporarily homeless and how they find strength and friendship together as they try to regain control of their lives.