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101) Fig
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1994, Fig looks back on her life and relates her experiences, from age six to nineteen, as she desperately tries to save her mother from schizophrenia while her own mental health and relationships deteriorate.
103) Dear pen pal
Author
Series
Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 3
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Four very different friends in Concord, Massachusetts, and their mothers continue their book club, reading Jean Webster's "Daddy Long-Legs," while getting to know their own pen pals from Wyoming.
104) The wrong way home
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Fern and her mother abruptly leave their isolated, off-the-grid community, Fern wants nothing more than to return, but things get murky as she slowly adjusts to her new life and discovers unsettling truths about her old one.
105) Surprise Lily
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Happily living on the family farm with just her grandmother, Rose's world is irrevocably changed when her absent mother shows up out of the blue with a surprise baby sister for Rose.
106) Our crooked hearts
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating voices, years after it began, seventeen-year-old Ivy and her mom Dana's shared story comes down to a reckoning among a daughter, a mother, and the dark forces they never should have messed with.
Author
Series
Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 1
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When the mothers of four sixth-grade girls with very different personalities pressure them into forming a book club, they find, as they read and discuss "Little Women," that they have much more in common than they could have imagined.
108) The fourth suit
Author
Series
Magic misfits volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The Magic Misfits confront their greatest enemy in this final story told from Ridley's point of view"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ivy Green, whose mother may have run off with a charismatic preacher to Panhandle, Florida, and classmate Paul Dobbs, who wants to see a Space Shuttle before the program's scrapped, team up for a summer adventure that's full of surprises.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Ivy Blake leaves the nice farm family where she has been living in upstate New York and moves back in with her mother she is finally forced to face up to the fact that her alcoholic, dysfunctional parent will never be able to provide her with a stable home--and if she wants to achieve her dreams she is going to have to take charge of her own future.
112) Deepest breath
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Struggling with her feelings for a female classmate, an eleven-year-old Irish girl tries to confide in her mother, the person she trusts most in the world.
115) Planning perfect
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Summer vacation quickly becomes complicated for Felicity Becker as she tries to plan a perfect wedding for her mom, figure out her feelings for her friend Nancy, and wonder what dating will look like for her as an asexual person.
116) Just for clicks
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Twin sisters Claire and Poppy are accidental social media stars thanks to Mom going viral when they were babies. But what happens when, as teens, they're expected to contribute by building their own brand?"
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Fifth-grader Trina, who has never lived anywhere long enough to call home, is excited about moving into Goldenrod, an abandoned mansion, with her dad. But soon Goldenrod brings its secrets to her attention, including a forgotten doll, leaving Trina wondering what the old house wants from her"--
118) A garden in my hands
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A mother shares family memories and stories with her daughter as she applies henna to the young girl's hands.
119) Mademoiselle mom
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When Mom gets sniffles that are worse than awful, Nancy decides she can help Mom by tidying up and watching JoJo. After all, Nancy is practically an expert at being a big sister, so how hard could it be? Disney Junior's Fancy Nancy: Mademoiselle Mom is a Level One I Can Read, perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. Disney Junior's Fancy Nancy is an animated family comedy starring six-year-old Nancy, a girl who is fancy in everything...
Author
Language
English
Description
Another laugh-out-loud book from the author of The Paper Bag Princess ! Brigid really, really loves markers. She convinces her mom to buy a new set of five hundred washable coloring markers, then five hundred coloring markers that smell, then five super-indelible-never-come-off-till-you're-dead-and-maybe-even-later coloring markers. Which markers do you think she uses when she colors on herself? A newly designed Classic Munsch picture book introduces...
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