mother-daughter relationship

Emily Amber Ross' new Internet community The Motherless Child Project leads her to question why her mother is absent in her life.

A young girl finds many uses for her mother's hijaab, but realizes its best purpose is as a covering for her mother as part of the Muslim faith. Presented in Turkish and English.

Ladybug Girl spends the day with her mother.

Twelve-year-old Tia lives in a white slum in New Orleans with her mother, and her whole world revolves around singing in the gospel choir with her best friend, Keisha--but when practice is interrupted by a shooting outside the church, and a baby is killed, Tia finds that she cannot sing, and she is forced to confront her feelings about her incarcerated father who killed a girl in a failed robbery years before.

Thea's mother is sinking deeper into mental illness since her husband went missing during the war, but it is the disappearance of Thea's best friend that allies her with Freddy, whose magical abilities are connected with the city's dark secrets.

When their daughter Marley goes missing, Rachel and Paul, getting no help from the police, turn to Facebook and Twitter, but when Rachel blows a television interview and shocking secrets come to light, the blogosphere is convinced she is a suspect in Marley's disappearance.

Although her mother, Poppy Pendle, believes magic ruins lives, eleven-year-old Cat Campbell is a late-blooming witch whose magical abilities are bursting to be mastered.

Jenna Metcalf, with the help of psychic Serenity Jones and private detective Virgil Stanhope, seeks to uncover the mystery surrounding the disappearance of her mother Alice, a scientist who studied grief among elephants.

Follows the life of Bride, a young African American woman, as she forms connections with a man named Booker and a white child named Rain while trying to get close to her emotionally distant mother.

Angela's mother tells her a story of the spring fiesta, remembering the year that her grandmother gave her a special present for taking her "cascarones"--confetti eggs--to town. Includes Spanish definitions of many selected words, as well as patterns and instructions for making one's own cascarones and a quilt.