mothers and sons

"Emmet Otter and his mother enter the local talent contest in the hopes of winning the cash prize and being able to buy each other a Christmas present"-- Provided by publisher.

Little Bear's four adventures include taking a trip to the moon and having a birthday party.

Almost-fourteen-year-old Melanin Sun's comfortable, quiet life is shattered when his mother reveals she has fallen in love with a woman.

Judy Shepard shares personal stories about her son Matthew's life and death, focusing on how she and her husband chose to honor their son's legacy after he was murdered in a brutal hate crime by becoming international gay rights activists.

Describes the relationship of a mother and child as the child grows into a man and has a baby of his own.

When the eldest son fell in the well and most of the time getting help was spent pronouncing the name of the one in trouble, the Chinese, according to legend, decided to give all their children short names.

Alex and his mother write notes back and forth in which Alex tries to persuade her to let him have a baby iguana for a pet.

Still reeling from his drug-dealing father's murder, moving in with the wealthy mother he never knew, and transferring to a private school, fifteen-year-old Jude is tricked into pleading guilty to a crime he did not commit.

Eighteen-year-old Robert tries to help his half-brother Xan, a seventeen-year-old misfit, to make better choices as he becomes increasingly attracted to a variety of protesters, anarchists, and the like.

Thirteen-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl must join forces with his nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police, in order to save his father--one of the few people in the world Artemis loves--who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya.