A little rabbit who wants to run away tells his mother how he will escape, but she is always right behind him.

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.

"Twelve years after Malorie and her children rowed up the river to safety, a blindfold is still the only thing that stands between sanity and madness. There remains no explanation, no solution. But for the first time Malorie has allowed herself to hope: someone very dear to her, someone she believed dead, may be alive. Now she must choose: to live by the rules of survival that have served her so well, or to venture into the darkness and reach for...

A little bird asks animals, planes, and boats, "Are you my mother?" until he finds his own mother.

"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....

At bedtime, a little llama worries after his mother puts him to bed and goes downstairs.

"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"--

A compendium of activities for mother and child to do together, including making a miniature garden, planning the perfect picnic, and creating a haunted house.

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.