mothers

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mothers

Escape from Memory

2005
Allowing herself to be hypnotized, fifteen-year-old Kira reveals memories of another time and place that may eventually cost her and her mother their lives.

Light on snow

a novel
2005
Twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon, still dealing with the loss of her mother and baby sister two years earlier, and her grieving father's sudden decision to move to an isolated New England farmhouse, takes further steps into the adult world when she and her dad find an abandoned newborn clinging to life in the woods near their home, and later come to know the young mother and learn her story.

Tending to Grace

2005
Cornelia, a high school student, is forced to confront the truth about herself and her mother after her mom runs off with a boyfriend, leaving her in the care of an eccentric aunt.

Famous!

2009
David is excited that his family has been chosen to participate in a reality television taping for the program "Trading Moms," until he learns whose mom is being swapped with his--his biggest enemy, Rose Thornton.

Motherlove

1998
A look at a variety of species, including our own, in which mothers nurture their young.

Home alone

1980
A young boy spends his first afternoon alone at home while his mother is at work.

What will Mommy do when I'm at school?

1990
A child worries about how her mother will cope at home on her own while she is at school.

By the dawn's early light

1994
A young girl and her brother stay with their grandmother while their mother works at night.

Mommies at work

1989
Examines many different jobs performed by working mothers, including counting money in banks and building bridges.

The terrible thing that happened at our house

1975
A youngster relates the terrible problems that occurred after her mother went to work and how the family solved them.

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