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3) Almost home
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
4) Splintered
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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.
5) This lullaby
Author
Language
English
Description
Raised by a mother who's had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician.
6) Saturday
Author
Language
English
Description
"Today will be special. Today will be splendid. Today is Saturday! This is the day Ava and her mother cherish. Saturday means: storytime, salon time, picnic time, and this week the best puppet show ever! But what happends when life doesn't exactly deliver on its promise? Join a mother and daughter on an up-and-down journey that reminds them of what's best about Saturdays: precious time together." --book jacket.
7) Dead City
Author
Series
Dead City volume 1
Language
English
Description
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.
8) Crazy
Author
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
While growing up in the 1960s, Laura uses art to cope with her mother's mental illness.
10) The memory thief
Author
Series
Thirteen witches volume 1
Language
English
Description
When sixth-grader Rosie begins to see magic, she learns that her mother's dwindling memory is tied to an age-old battle between the light of the moon and the darkness of witches.
Author
Series
Hazel Wood series volume 1
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get.
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Eight-year-old Cassie Witting is upset when she finds out that her mother, Sarah, is expecting a baby, but writing in the journal that belonged to her brother Caleb helps her sort out her feelings and understand that Sarah will always love her.
Author
Language
English
Description
"My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I'm allergic to the world. I don't leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla. But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He's tall, lean and wearing all black -- black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking...
Author
Series
Rosa books (Vera B. Williams) volume 1
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.
15) Pie
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
After the death of Polly Portman, whose award-winning pies put the town of Ipswitch, Pennsylvania, on the map in the 1950s, her devoted niece Alice and Alice's friend Charlie investigate who is going to extremes to find Aunt Polly's secret pie crust recipe. Includes fourteen pie recipes.
16) Two summers
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
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.
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