mothers and daughters

Single mom and wedding planner May Taylor, guided by the psychic visions of her five-year-old daughter, Kylie, falls in love with professional hockey player and sports legend Martin Cartier, not knowing Martin is hiding a core of rage, heartache, and isolation that threatens their future.

Examines the relationship between mother and daughter, discussing how a woman's interactions with her mother may impact her identity, self-esteem, and relationships with others.

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England. Selected words in text highlighted and defined for vocabulary building.

Queen Veda of Ran turns aside anything or anyone that would make her look less than beautiful, so her daughter Ana goes to great lengths to win her mother's love by making herself ugly, until she is forced to go to the prestigious Academy for Girls.

Plucky Irene, a dressmaker's daughter, braves a fierce snowstorm to deliver a new gown to the duchess in time for the ball.

When her mother suddenly returns home a year after having walked out on her family, thirteen-year-old Randi tries hard to conquer her own anger and feelings of being permanently scarred by the experience.

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.

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.

Grumpy Gail refuses to allow her visiting cousin Claire to play with her toys or sit in her favorite chair, until her mother teaches Gail about sharing.

When she goes to live with her aunt in a small Michigan town, Mary Brooke discovers a secret room that becomes her refuge as she tries to cope with all the changes in her life brought about by her mother's death.