mother-daughter relationship

Follows Viola as she survives brutality in war-torn Sudan, makes a perilous journey, lives as a refugee in Egypt, and finally reaches Portland, Maine, where her quest for freedom and security is hampered by memories of past horrors and the traditions her mother and other Sudanese adults hold dear. Includes historical facts and a map of Sudan.

Having never taken a major risk, seventeen-year-old Parker Frost leads a normal existence. When she earns the chance to solve a local mystery, however, she decides to finally do something out of the ordinary and changes her life forever.

Mona Lisa thinks she has found the right guy in Julio Avila, but her mother has other ideas about Julio.

In 1970, fourteen-year-old Shoshanna, six-year-old Mara, and their mother escape from Sweet Earth Farm, a declining commune run by their tyranical and abusive father, but after finding peace and stability at Avery Elliot's farm, their mother's crippling depression returns.

While attending a yard sale, Pinkalicious finds all kinds of great items, but the one she finally chooses is not for her.

Twelve-year-old Nora has always dreamed of going to Paris with her grandmother, but when her grandmother dies it seems like Paris is gone with her--until Nora finds three airline tickets in a trunk, and sets out to persuade her mother to use them.

Investigates what the author calls the "girly-girl" culture, with its emphasis on princesses and the color pink, in an effort to understand whether a focus on beauty and play-sexiness is harmful to growing girls, and argues that parents need to determine their values, set reasonable limits, and encourage dialogue with their daughters in order to soften the influence of consumer culture and materialism.

A grandmother describes to her granddaughter how her mother was just like her as a child, playing peek-a-boo, getting sent to time out, and collecting crazy things.

A little girl, after helping her mommy get ready for an evening out, is left with the babysitter and a bright red lipstick kiss as a promise that mom will return.

Presents an alternative history novel set in the twenty-first century about six different Jewish characters who are posing as "good Germans" in a world where the Nazis have defeated all of their World War Two enemies.