mother-daughter relationship

Twelve-year-old Hershey must deal with a new set of problems after her mother, escaping from her abusive boyfriend, takes the family to live across town in a women's shelter, and Hershey's journals and Cheez Doodles are her only constants.

After an eight-year absence, Dizzy's "New Age traveler" mother suddenly shows up on her twelfth birthday and whisks her away to a series of festivals throughout Scotland in her rattletrap van.

After spending her life with her mentally disabled mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is.

In the early 1960s, Melanie Hubbard moves her two daughters, Opal and Garnet, from Texas to Oklahoma and leaves them at her sister's house. While Opal excels in school and makes many friends, Garnet finds herself struggling and loses pride in herself.

A Hollywood actress, who had been competing with Sammy's mother for an important role, is murdered, but thirteen-year-old Sammy and her friend Marissa are on the case.

In a poor Mexican village, Erandi surprises her mother by offering to sell her long, beautiful hair in order to raise enough money to buy a new fishing net.

In 1905, eight-year-old Harriet Peters fulfills her dead mother's dream by climbing Long's Peak in Colorado with the help of an old mountain guide, Enos Mills. Based on a true story.

Despite the doubts of some classmates and her native-born Japanese mother's inability to read English, Yoko finds the key to reading and catches up with the other students in putting new leaves on the classroom's book tree.

Seventeen-year-old Barrie finds herself involved in a string of murders that are somehow connected to her mother's hair salon.

The life choices of a mother and daughter are reassessed as the mother lies dying of cancer.