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Fairy tales Adaptations Grief Juvenile fiction JUVENILE FICTION / General Mothers and daughters Mothers and daughters Fiction Mothers and daughters Juvenile fiction Mères et filles Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Picture books for children Schools Juvenile fiction Stories in rhymeLaCour, Nina
Summary: When her mother goes on a business trip, a little girl, who loves to sit between Mama and Mommy at the table, misses her a lot and feels empty until Mommy finally comes home, filling the void with love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy Collection, Call number: JE LACOURWeetman, Nova
Summary: When they are selected to read speeches at their elementary school graduation, an unlikely friendship develops between two sixth-graders, one popular and one a misfit, who are facing family problems and health issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION WEETMANZarr, Sara.
Summary: Told from their own viewpoints, seventeen-year-old Jill, in grief over the loss of her father, and Mandy, nearly nineteen, are thrown together when Jill's mother agrees to adopt Mandy's unborn child but nothing turns out as they had anticipated.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION ZARRSambury, Liselle
Summary: Told in alternating timelines, seventeen-year-old Daisy and her mother move into her deceased uncle's mansion, only to find horrors waiting inside, and ten years later, Brittney investigates the mystery behind the Miracle Mansion that turned her mother's life around.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION SAMBURYOrmsbee, Kathryn
Summary: Cline Alden's grandmother says that music is in the family's blood, but Cline's mother is dead-set against her daughter's dreams of becoming a country music singer; Cline is determined to find the money to attend a Young Singer-Songwriter Workshop in Lexington (not too far from her Paris, Kentucky home), so now she has a lot on her mind--she is hiding things from her mother, she is losing her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION ORMSBEEHosford, Kate
Summary: In rhyming text, a mother and daughter spend a day together, enjoying the beauty of nature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy Collection, Call number: JE HOSFORDWhite, Dianne
Summary: A girl and her mother wander through the city looking for the many things to be grateful for, and enjoying being present and aware in the moment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy Collection, Call number: JE WHITEHesse, Karen
Summary: A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: WB JE HESSEHarper, Charise Mericle.
Summary: Ashley's summer is filled with babysitting, letters to her best friend at camp, and a wish jar filled with secret revelations that help her understand her mother in a whole new way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer & Bray 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION HARPERPixley, Marcella Fleischman
Summary: It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending an imaginative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION PIXLEYGaiman, Neil.
Summary: Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2002
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Summary: This special treasury edition contains the first two volumes of Hilda's adventures -- Hilda and the Troll and Hilda and the Midnight Giant -- for you to read over and over again, as well as bonus material from series creator, Luke Pearson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books, an imprint of Nobrow Ltd. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J GRAPHIC PEARSONMéndez, Jasminne
Summary: A novel-in-verse about a 12-year-old Dominican American girl who must keep her love of swimming a secret from her mother, is diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis, and is forced to reimagine the person she is to become.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FICTION MAENDEZSánchez, Erika L.
Summary: Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga's role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION SANCHEZCopies Available at All Locations
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION SÁNCHEZCarroll, Emma
Summary: While selling matches in Victorian London to keep her ailing mother safe from the factory’s toxins, Bridie magically sees visions of a more hopeful future and, realizing she has the power to change her own fortune, urges the ill-treated factory workers to strike out and achieve something remarkable.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FICTION CARROLLObuobi, Laura.
Summary: "When the Universe decides to create a child, she draws from the earth--rich, dark, and full of everything that gives life, including eyes like black star sapphires and full lips to speak the truth. With help from the Sun and the Moon, they create a child of the Universe: beautiful, powerful, and boundless with the brilliance of Black Gold"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy Collection, Call number: JE OBUOBIPower, Rory
Summary: "Margot doesn't know anything about her family, beyond her quiet life with her mother. But she wants more and when she finds a clue that leads her to a town called Phalene, she leaves to investigate. Only Phalene and her family history are full of secrets, some that may prove more dangerous and deadly than Margot ever could have bargained for"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION POWERNyoko, Mel
Summary: A Black mother replaces common misconceptions with empowering statements and lets her daughter know there are no limits to what she can achieve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy Collection, Call number: JE NYOKOBenway, Robin
Summary: Attending the royal debut party, their one chance to impress the Prince and live up to their cruel and bitter mother's expectations, sisters Drizella and Anastasia get a taste of freedom, pitting them against a mother whose greatest power lies in manipulation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION BENWAYJohnson, Daisy May
Summary: When her mother, the world's leading expert on ducks, goes missing, Calla North must outwit the headmistress at her new boarding school to find her mom, with the help of a few new friends and a motley crew of resourceful nuns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: GodwinBooks, Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION JOHNSONHinrichs, Alexandra S. D.
Summary: "A girl and her mom take a walk and fill their pockets along the way"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameron + Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy Collection, Call number: JE HINRICHSCarey, Janet Lee.
Summary: In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the dragon's claw she was born with that reflects only one of her mother's dark secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION CAREYPicoult, Jodi
Summary: Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse/Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION PICOULTThiesing, Lisa.
Summary: A mother explains how much her daughter is like she was as a little girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 1998