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3) Son
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
Author
Language
English
Description
Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it's an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret 'assignments,' to bring the rain everybody is praying for....
10) Sailor's song
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A mother sings her child a song that describes how a sailor makes his way home from the sea to his family.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"No longer content to lay eggs on command only to have them carted off to the market, a hen glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild--and to hatch an egg of her own"--
12) On the rooftop
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives-set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San Francisco"--
13) I'll be there
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A young boy and his mother talk about what she did for him as a baby, what he can do for himself now, and that she will always be there when he needs her.
14) Owl babies
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three baby owls awake one night to find their mother gone, and wonder where she is. They greet her return with joyous celebration.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Teddy's favorite toy has the best manners, and the sickest fighting skills, and the ability to pull off a number of fierce looks. But when his toy goes missing, it turns out there's another woman around who's pretty fierce--it's Teddy's mom, and she will stop at nothing to reunite Teddy with his favorite toy"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The world has changed around seventy-nine-year-old librarian Millicent Carmichael, aka Missy. Though quick to admit that she often found her roles as a housewife and mother less than satisfying, Missy once led a bustling life driven by two children, an accomplished and celebrated husband, and a Classics degree from Cambridge. Now her husband is gone, her daughter is estranged after a shattering argument, and her son has moved to his wife's native...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When a county initiative in the Piedmont of North Carolina forces the students at a mostly black public school on the east side to move across town to a nearly all-white high school on the west, the community rises in outrage. For two students, quiet and aloof Gee and headstrong Noelle, these divisions will extend far beyond their schooling. As their paths collide and overlap over the course of thirty years, their two seemingly disconnected families...
19) Close your eyes
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A mother tiger entices her child to sleep by telling of all that can been seen with one's eyes closed.
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