Ramona at 7 1/2 sometimes feels discriminated against for being the youngest in the family.

A young girl experiences a range of emotions when her mother undergoes treatment for cancer.

Nita's mother hunts monsters and, after Nita dissects and packages them, sells them online, but when Nita follows her conscience to help a live monster escape, she is sold on the black market in his place.

When Amelia Bedelia's mother is having a "gray day," Amelia Bedelia knows just what to do to make it brighter. As soon as her mother leaves to go shopping, Amelia Bedelia gets to work on a huge, multicolored sidewalk chalk mural. She enlists her friends and neighbors to help do chalk drawings on her sidewalk, front walk, driveway, fence, and even on the trees and sides of their house.

When her mermaid mother is missing, Jade, who is afraid of the ocean, must come up with a plan to get her back on dry land.

Victoria Mahler is the sixteen-year-old only daughter of rocker Micky Wayne, whose band, Dusty Moon, took the world by storm when Micky was just a teenager. The band broke up under mysterious circumstances, but, after years spent off the road being a mom, Micky's solo career is finally starting to take off. When an offer to tour Japan falls into her mom's lap, Vic is left to spend the summer under the care of her distant grandmother, and without her...

The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.

"A picture book about a little girl who has a big night out with her mother at an awards show"--Publisher.

"A rhyming adaptation for children of Gregory E. Lang's "Why a Daughter Needs a Mom," that relates the ways mothers help their daughters learn and grow and demonstrates the power of the special bond shared between them"--Provided by publisher.

While living with her estranged mother at mysterious Mallory Estate, twelve-year-old Piper Peavey must undergo three trials to obtain from the enchanted garden an elixir that might save her dying father.