mothers and daughters

Based on the tale of Merida, a skilled archer and princess who is determined to carve her own path in life. She defies an age-old custom---and unleashes a beastly curse upon the kingdom. To set things right, Merida embarks on a perilous quest and discovers the meaning of true bravery.

Kitty Dale, whose mother does not want to deal with a child, or admit one into her new life, spends the summer with Aunt Petal and eventually learns to accept her mother's weaknesses.

After the death of her aunt, seventeen-year-old Emily finds that her life has been a lie and she has to search for the truth about where she came from and who she is.

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.

An eighteen-year-old Australian girl begins searching for clues to the identity of the mother she never knew and uncovers startling things about herself.

During a blizzard, Madison digs in the attic and finds letters and photographs which give her insight into her mother, and also uncovers a photo album that causes her to reexamine her long-ago friendship with Poison Ivy.

Child living in the Arctic learns that a mother's love is unconditional.

Essays by women of gifts from their mothers that has touched her to the bone and served as a model, a metaphor, or a touchstone in her own life. Individually, the stories get to the heart of their mother-daughter relationship. Collectively, the pieces have a force that feels as elemental as the tides.