mother-daughter relationship

Pearl loves attending dance classes at her mother's ballet school. When her mom suggests Pearl try going to preschool, Pearl has a lot of questions, like what will she learn? and will there be dancing?.

"Clara can't believe her no-nonsense grandmother has just up and moved to Florida, leaving Clara and her mother on their own for the first time. This means her mother can finally 'follow her bliss,' which involves moving to a tiny apartment in Kensington Market, working at a herbal remedy shop and trying to develop her so-called mystical powers. Clara tries to make the best of a bad situation by joining the newspaper staff at her new middle school, where she can sharpen her investigative journalistic skills and tell the kind of hard-news stories her grandmother appreciated. But the editor relegates her to boring news stories and worse . . . the horoscopes. Worse yet, her horoscopes come true, and soon everyone at school is talking about Clara Voyant, the talented fortune-teller. Clara is horrified--horoscopes and clairvoyance aren't real, she insists, just like her grandmother always told her. But when a mystery unfolds at school, she finds herself in a strange situation: having an opportunity to prove herself as an investigative journalist . . . with the help of her own mystical powers"--Provided by publisher.

The personal, often painful, histories of four Chinese American women who began meeting in San Francisco in 1949 to play mah jong are revealed as the daughter of one who has died searches for her sisters in China to tell them about the mother they never knew.

"When a little girl has doubts about the color of her skin, her mother shows her all the wonderful, beautiful things brown can be!"--Jacket flap.

With a stomp of her foot and tears in her eyes, Holly declares that she does not want to go to school but her mother, aided by a favorite puppet, helps Holly find ways to solve her kindergarten problems.

In 1977, after her mother's suicide, twelve-year-old Dulcie Louise Dixon is sent to live with her aunt and must rise out of her grief and find her voice again with the help of some surprising new friends.

When her perfectly planned summer of quality time with her parents, her serious boyfriend, and her Bible camp unravels and long-hidden family secrets emerge, Lucy must figure out what she is made of and what grace really means.

"In the hills above Port-au-Prince, a young girl named Fallon wants more than anything to carry the panye to market, just like all the women in her family. As she watches Manman wrap her hair in a mouchwa, Fallon tries to wrap her braids into her own scarf. But she realizes that it's much more difficult than she thought"--Jacket flap.

In interwoven narratives, a young girl and her mother support one another as one tries out for the baseball team and the other interviews for a bricklaying job, then celebrate their success together.

"Sixteen-year-old Katelyn, who has been subjected to her mother's 'wanderlust' all her life, discovers that Mom might not be who she says she is, and that someone is hunting them both"--OCLC.