mother-son relationship

While struggling to cope with his very strict Catholic school, fourteen-year-old James fights his mother over the right to make his own decisions without having to lie to her.

A mother expresses her deep abiding love for her sweet baby boy.

While his widowed mother continues to search for him, eleven-year-old Tom, presumed dead after drifting away down a river, finds himself trapped in a series of underground caves with another survivor and a dog, and pursued by murderous treasure-hunters.

Ben is upset when his mother sits on his special gingerbread man, but he soon forgives her when she delights him with more gingerbread men.

Octavia Frost travels to the West Coast to investigate the murder of Bettina Moffett, her estranged son Milo's girlfriend, and help him clear his name after he is charged with the crime.

As Denise struggles to raise her two sons, run a business, and start a relationship with a new man, she feels her life is complicated enough, but when both of her sons' fathers decide they want to take a more active role in their sons' lives, Denise finds herself balancing more than she can handle.

A youngster feels angry and betrayed when his doting mother begins asking him to do things for himself.

Little Bear's four adventures include taking a trip to the moon and having a birthday party.

Katie Wilkinson, blissfully in love, is suddenly abandoned by the man who made her happy, left with only a diary written by a new mother named Suzanne for her infant son, Nicholas--and as Katie reads, she gains a new understanding of Matt, the man who left her.