mothers

Beginning readers will learn to celebrate diversity by appreciating the variety of configurations that can make a family.

Quack the Duck searches all over the farm for his mother.

"Twelve-year-old Sophia has never told anyone about her unusual memories--snapshots of a past that never happened. She becomes convinced that the upcoming solar eclipse will grant her the opportunity to make her alternate life come true, to enter a world where her mother never died. With the help of two misfit boys, she must figure out a way to bring her mother back to her--before the opportunity is lost forever"--Provided by publisher.

Krista is still grieving the untimely death of her mother when her father's new girlfriend moves into their home. Distancing herself from everyone around her, Krista spends all of her time watching a mysterious house, the house at 758.

"Kate has spent fifteen years bringing global injustice home: as a decorated war reporter, she's always in a place of conflict, writing about ordinary people in unimaginable situations. When her mother dies, Kate returns home from Syria for the funeral. But an incident with a young Syrian boy haunts her dreams, and when Kate sees a boy in the garden of the house next door--a house inhabited by an Iraqi refugee who claims her husband is away and she has no children--Kate becomes convinced that something is very wrong. As she struggles to separate her memories of Syria from the quiet town in which she grew up--and also to reconcile her memories of a traumatic childhood with her sister's insistence that all was not as Kate remembers--she begins to wonder what is actually true...and what is just in her mind."--Page 4 of cover.

Siblings Jesse, an optimist, and Maggie, who does not believe in anything she cannot see or touch, find themselves trapped in a magical kingdom where they must embark on a journey beyond the Lands of Magma to find the Wizard of Iz to find their way home again.

Border patrolman James Reese is haunted by memories of his first family, despite the love of his adopted parents, and when he learns his birth mother has died, he feels compelled to learn about her life and the circumstances surrounding her death.

Feature writer Nikki Eaton, contemptuous of her widowed mother's domestic, middle-class lifestyle, embarks on a year of grief and transformation when her mom is murdered shortly after a Mother's Day party during which Nikki went out of her way to be offensive.

A fictional memoir in which Richard Everett describes his experiences as an eleven-year-old murderer.

Wanting to get things right when her mother's birthday arrives and remembering the countless ways her mother's previous birthdays have been ruined, Judy Moody tries to organize a perfect day with just the right parsnip and avocado cake.