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

Moon is convinced that she does not belong to this world: that most of the time she is invisible (unless she stays still too long), that she belongs to the stars, and wants to go back to them--she lives entirely in her imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest her words tie her to a world she rejects.

"Told from different viewpoints, five seventh-graders, who face their own personal challenges, are also determined as a group to help two very special people reconcile a long-standing dispute"--

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.

Twelve-year-old figure skater Ana strives to win her competitions while learning about gender identity--Ana's own and that of a new friend--and how to navigate the best path forward.--

"''Go Away, Mama!'' screams a little girl to her exasperated mom. And so it begins. The complex relationship between a mama and her daughter. ''My darling girl, you can't push me away. No matter what, I'm here to stay.'' We follow mama and daughter as they navigate the highs and lows of life's milestones together--from teenage rebellion to leaving for college to starting a family. Along the way, we watch as this strong-willed daughter and her devoted...

When Mari and her stepsister Sierra share a ride to a music festival with two brothers, T.J. and Tyler, Mari and T.J. are instantly attracted to each other, but Mari is only in Chicago for a weekend with her father's new family, and eventually she will have to return to her increasingly abusive mother, unless she can overcome her reservations about dating and maybe arrange to stay in Chicago permanently.

Seventeen-year-old Ross Quest, a master thief, enters the Thieves' Gambit, a competition consisting of dangerous, international heists, in order to save her mother's life. At only seventeen years old, Ross Quest is already a master thief, especially adept at escape plans. Until her plan to run away from her legendary family of thieves takes an unexpected turn, leaving her mother's life hanging in the balance. In a desperate bid, she enters the Thieves'...

A little girl learns to love each part of herself, from her spectacular hair to her big heart.

In this rhyming adaptation for children of Gregory E. Lang's Why a daughter needs a mom, relates the ways mothers help their daughters learn and grow and demonstrates the power of the special bond shared between them.