mother-daughter relationship

"Cora the mermaid is having trouble with spelling, but if she wants to stay on the swim team she has to get an A on her next test--so her mother gives her a "magic" diary that compels her to practice writing, while her friends explain to her the concept of studying"--OCLC.

Brave Irene, the dressmaker's daughter, ventures out into a fierce snowstorm to deliver the beautiful ball gown her mother has made for the duchess.

When Esther's family moves to a farm during the Great Depression, she soon learns that there are things much more important than that her superstitious mother rarely shows her any affection.

While helping the Omega team track down the identity of the original thirteen zombies in New York City, Molly tries to keep her mother's secret and uncovers a sinister plan of the undead.

Alyssa Gardner returns from Wonderland and tries to graduate from high school, but Morpheus follows her and urges her to leave her family and the boy she loves for another adventure in Wonderland.

Alyssa Gardner is the great-great-great-granddaughter of Alice Liddle, the famous Alice of Mr. Lewis Carroll's best-selling book, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." Alyssa seems to have inherited a bit of the family weird, being able to hear the thoughts of animals and plants. Her mother could, too, and got put in an institute. So Alyssa is making sure to keep her delusions secret--until she finds that Wonderland is a real place, and it is in need of a little girl to come and set it right again.

A descendant of the inspiration for "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," sixteen-year-old Alyssa Gardner fears she is mentally ill like her mother until she finds that Wonderland is real and, if she passes a series of tests to fix Alice's mistakes, she may save her family from their curse.

Victoria Torres has always had a family birthday party that she shares with her beloved grandmother, but this year she is so impressed by her classmate's birthday party at GlamaRama, the mall's newest spa store, that she decides that she wants to celebrate her twelfth birthday there--and her mother refuses to do both.

Two possible futures face Summer: either she will spend the summer in Provence with her father, uncovering family secrets, and exploring the old world, or she will stay in upstate New York, coping with her mother, and dreaming of her long time crush--and which future unfolds will depend on whether or not she answers a phone call.

Seventh-grader Molly has always been an outsider, even at New York City's elite Metropolitan Institute of Science and Technology, but that changes when she is recruited to join the Omegas, a secret group that polices and protects zombies.