mothers and daughters

Sarah Perry, hoping to provide her daughter with opportunities for a better life, sends Rebecca east to boarding school while she stays behind to run her late husband's freight-hauling business, but over the years the gulf between mother and daughter widens, and when Rebecca does finally come home, Sarah struggles to bridge the gap.

Contains over five hundred excerpts and quotes in which African-American mothers share words of wisdom and advice, discussing topics such as pride, faith, community, heritage, and achievement.

With the help of her father and a caring neighbor, a twelve-year-old girl living in the inner city tries to cope with growing up, especially with her mother's emotional problems.

Shy eleven-year-old Nita feels lost when her mother returns from a visit to their home country Thailand and plunges into depression, but then Nita miraculously begins to blossom and her shyness disappears.

Four Chinese-American women and their daughters come to understand each other as the mothers tell of growing up in China and coming to America.

Raised in an unconventional fashion by a former hippie mother who now seems to be retreating from the real world, seventeen-year-old Tee finds her life further confused by the sudden appearance of the father she has never known.

Penny Bone has always been terrified of the local tale of a child-stealing phantom, and in Crawford, Virginia, the unofficial motto is "beware what you fear, because it may come true" and a bizarre series of events soon forces Penny and her husband John to face their worst fears.

Despite her interfering stage mother, seventeen-year-old Abby, a former child movie star, pursues her dream of becoming an actress in Hollywood during World War II.

Coming of age in Texas, sixteen-year-old Karis shares her thoughts in a series of diary entries.

After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is.