Chamberlain, Diane
Summary: "When Caroline Sears receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970 and there seems to be little that can be done. But her brother-in-law, a physicist, tells her that perhaps there is. Hunter appeared in their lives just a few years before--and his appearance was as mysterious as his past. With no family, no friends, and a background shrouded in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CHAJohnston, Aviaq
Summary: Nalvana feels like all of her friends have some type of superpower. She has friends with super speed (who always beat her in races), friends with super strength (who can dangle from the monkey bars for hours), and friends who are better than she is at a million other things. Nalvana thinks she must be the only kid in town without a superpower. But then her mom shows Nalvana that she is unique...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Inhabit Media Inc. 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOHMéndez, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MENFeder, Tyler
Summary: "Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 362.17 FEDHepworth, Sally
Summary: All their lives, Alice Stanhope and her daughter Zoe have been a family of two, living quietly in northern California. Zoe has always struggled with crippling social anxiety and her mother has been her constant and fierce protector. With no family to speak of, and the identity of Zoe's father shrouded in mystery, their team of two works - until it doesn't. Until Alice gets sick and needs to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEPCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hepworth 2017Fipps, Lisa
Summary: Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FIPLee, C. B.
Summary: 1826. The legendary Dragon Fleet, the scourge of the South China Sea, is no more. Xiang has grown up with stories about the Dragon Fleet and its ruthless leader, a woman known only as the Dragon Queen. Desperate to set sail and explore, Xiang mainly wishes to find her father, a crew member of the Dragon Fleet. Her only memento of him is a simple but plain piece of gold jewelry. The pendant's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEEWalton, Jessica
Summary: Maisie is on her way to her first fancon and she can't wait to meet her idol, an action star who had an above-the-knee amputation, just like Maisie. But then she meets Ollie. Ollie is a cute volunteer working the show, and they geek out about nerd culture, just as much as Maisie does. After spending the day together, Maisie notices feelings for Ollie that she's never had before. Could Ollie...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 WALLewis, Kayvion
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAWCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC LEWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEWAcampora, Paul
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Ellie Magari's mother left shortly after Ellie was born, and her father has raised her, but Ellie always figured that one day she would meet her mother and ask her some pertinent questions--but now her mother has died, and Ellie does not know exactly how to feel about that, but she is determined, with the help of her friends in the St. Francis of Assisi's Howling Wolves...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ACAHarrington, Claudia
Summary: Lenny, the class reporter, follows Elsie for a school project and learns about her life with her two moms.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Looking Glass Library, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2016
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC HARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HARAnderson, Jodi Lynn
Summary: When sixth-grader Rosie begins to see magic, she learns that her mother's dwindling memory is tied to an age-old battle between the light of the moon and the darkness of witches.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ANDJohnson, Varian
Summary: "When Candice finds the letter, she isn't sure she should read it. It's addressed to her grandmother, after all, who left Lambert in a cloud of shame. But the letter describes a young African American woman named Siobhan Washington. An injustice that happened decades ago. A mystery enfolding the letter writer. And the fortune that awaits the person who solves the puzzle. Grandma tried and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC JOHCortese, Katie
Summary: A girl afflicted with pyrokinesis tries to control her fire-starting long enough to go to a dance with a boy she likes. A woman trapped in a stalled marriage is excited by an alluring ex-con who enrolls in her YMCA cooking class. A teen accompanies her mother, a prestigious poet, to a writing conference where she navigates a misguided attraction to a married writer -- who is, in turn, attracted...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORDuncan, Elle
Summary: "Inspired by a segment originally aired on The Undefeated, ESPN Sports Center Anchor Elle Duncan shares a moving letter written for her daughter that will resonate with moms and daughters everywhere"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2024
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE DUNFaruqi, Saadia
Summary: Yasmin struggles with Ms. Alex's assignment to write an essay about her hero until she realizes that her hero is someone very close to her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FARSeldeen, Claudia Recinos
Summary: "Maya loves her mother, but she's also embarrassed by her. Maya's mother emigrated from Guatemala years before Maya was born. Still, she clings tightly to her roots and traditions. When lacrosse star Josh Williams suddenly expresses interest in Maya, she's excited to go on a real date. But Maya's mother isn't on board. Can Maya make her mother see she's ready to grow up and have more freedom?...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SELTheule, Larissa
Summary: A young girl feels lost after the death of her mother, but when she and her father visit their lake house, she takes out the small boat she and her mom built together and somehow, in the wind and rain, reconnects with her mother's love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THEKhan, Sabina
Summary: "Ayesha is a world away from home when she meets the boy of her dreams. Like her, Suresh is from India but going to high school in Illinois. Once they get together, they are inseparable... until a twist of fate takes Suresh back to India right when Ayesha discovers she's pregnant. Suddenly she feels she's on her own, navigating the biggest decision she'll ever make. Seventeen years later,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Push 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KHARogers, Shannon C. F.
Summary: Marisol and her mom were forever locked in an argument with no beginning and no end. When her mother dies suddenly, Marisol is left with no one to fight against, haunted by all the things that she both said and didn't say. When Marisol sleeps with her best friend's boyfriend--- and then punches said best friend in the face--- she is left alone with nothing but a burning anger. As a new...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROGIfueko, Jordan
Summary: Raised in isolation, Tarisai yearns for the closeness she could have as one of the Crown Prince's Council of 11, but her mother, The Lady, has magically compelled Tarisai to kill the Crown Prince.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC IFUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC IFUMcNeil, Gretchen
Summary: Izzy and her family welcome foreign exchange student Alberto into their home, but after a series of mishaps and coincidences, and with a serial killer on the loose, Izzy begins to suspect Alberto is not who he seems.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC MCNValentino, Serena
Summary: Locked away in Hell Hall after sharing her plan to make a fur coat out of Dalmatian puppies, Cruella De Vil tells her side of the story--a tale of friendship, love and loss, mothers and daughters...and revenge.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC VALAdichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Summary: A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. 'Dear Ijeawele' is Adichie's letter of response. Here are fifteen suggestions for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires; having...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017