mother-son relationship

"Kindhearted, Candide-esque Percy wakes up from a 200 year nap and finds himself in a strange new land. Searching for his mother, lamenting his long-lost love and soul-mate Miss Margaret, Percy meets bizarre, wise, naive, and sometimes dangerous characters, encounters inspired inventions, and forges friendships, discovering a few unexpected verities along the way"--Publisher.

Sixteen-year-old Marley Diego-Dylan's career as "DJ Ice" is skyrocketing, but his mother's heroin addiction keeps dragging him back to earth.

An ordinary suburban family is shattered by the unanticipated, violent consequences of seemingly casual decisions.

Harriet Lovatt's life is torn apart when she gives birth to Ben, an insatiably hungry, abnormally strong, brutal child, who she cannot bear to leave in an institution, but whose presence in her home terrorizes her husband and other four children.

Afraid that her smallest child, Colin, will be hurt if he goes outside or plays, a mother mouse insists that he sit quietly indoors until his grandmother suggests wrapping him in cotton wool, which proves to be effective, but in a most unexpected way.

A boy looks all over the house for his mother and finally finds her in her own bed, asleep.

Baby Ben gets into one difficulty after another, from which Mama rescues him--but not for long.

When his best friend is seriously injured in a bike accident, Guy recounts their first meeting and how the friendship grew despite the weird antics of Guy's eccentric mother.

The residents of Hard Pan, California, come together to help Brigitte and Lucky when the County Health Department threatens to close down the caf?, and meantime Miles's life is complicated by his mother's return.

Describes the relationship of a mother and child as the child grows into a man and has a baby of his own.