mother-daughter relationship

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mother-daughter relationship

Heather has two mommies

"Heather's favorite number is two. She has two arms, two legs, and two pets. And she also has two mommies. When Heather goes to school for the first time, someone asks her about her daddy, but Heather doesn't have a daddy. Then something interesting happens. When Heather and her classmates all draw pictures of their families, not one drawing is the same. It doesn't matter who makes up a family, the teacher says, because 'the most important thing about a family is that all the people in it love one another'" --Provided by publisher.
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The awesome

"Seventeen-year-old Maggie Cunningham, who wants to enter in the family business of monster hunting, can't get her license until she loses her virginity, but finding a normal boy proves to be more difficult than she thought"--OCLC.
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Almost home

2017
Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
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The missing

Maggie, a frontierswoman in the 19th century American West, must accept the help of her estranged father when her daughter is snatched by a hooded phantom.
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Angel de la Luna and the 5th glorious mystery

As a baby in her mother's womb, as a schoolgirl in Manilla, and as a reluctant immigrant to Chicago at age sixteen, Angel burns with a desire to be an activist, but learning truths about her mother and grandmother help her find peace.
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I am not your perfect Mexican daughter

2017
"Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga's role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too. Instead, her mother seems to channel her grief into pointing out every possible way Julia has failed"--OCLC.
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The glass menagerie

A play about a Southern woman who is anxious for her crippled daughter to be married.
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A grown-up kind of pretty

Tells the story of a young woman's search for the truth about her mother and a graveyard on their property.
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Once on this river

While on a trip with her mother from Madagascar to New York in 1760, eleven-year-old Monday learns the horrors of slavery and the truth about her "other" mother.
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