mother-son relationship

When his mother says he cannot play at a friend's house, Sprout's disappointment erupts into angry words and actions. Includes questions for children to think about at the end of the story.

Billy has spent his almost-sixteen years with four cardinal points--Mother, Christ, Bible, and Home-school--but when he sets off on a wild road trip to find the father he thought was dead, he learns much about himself and life.

Eliana, unhappy in her marriage to the philandering Maurizio and caring for a sick child, falls in love with Ross Story, an American who has come to Italy to work at a local art museum, but it seems as though their romance is doomed due to the laws that would award custody of her young son to her husband if she were to leave.

Reprint of a 1946 novel, based upon the true story of Lutie Johnson, a young African-American woman who struggled to live and raise her son in the midst of the poverty and violence of Harlem in the late 1940s.

Single mother Christine Scavello turns to private detective Charlie Harrison for help when her young son Joey becomes the target of a fanatical religious group that believes the child to be the Antichrist.

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.