"Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga's role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken,...

Sophia is worrying about going to the pool party and doesn't want to talk to Mommy about why, but the truth is, she's not feeling confident about wearing her swimsuit. With the help of Sophia's teddy bears, Mommy explains that she'll be missing out on all the fun if she doesn't go to the party. Most importantly, Mommy reminds her that our bodies come in all shapes and sizes, and they can do so many amazing things!

"A simple story exploring the feelings of a mixed heritage child who begins to notice the physical differences between her mother's features and her own. One day, Izzy notices that her skin looks different from her mama's. "Mama," exclaims Izzy. "We don't match! You're sand, and I'm chocolate." Then Izzy realizes that her hair has big swirls and curls that jump out from her braids, while her mama's hair is smooth and straight with a braid that hangs...

A little girl is fascinated by her mother's sari and finds many uses for it.

Lyrical text describes a mother's voice as she sings, hums, encourages, cheers, comforts, and shares secrets with her daughter during the course of a day.

When she was five years old, Lucy wrote her first letter to Santa and either mailed them or left them by the plate of cookies; when she was eight she wrote her last Santa letter--and left it on her mother's pillow. Letters are inserted in envelopes attached to pages throughout text.

Merida is transported to the past where she and her teenage mother Elinor band together to bridge the rift between Clans MacCameron and DunBroch.

"Tangle-knot is not a word, but it is Fia's hair. And Fia thinks it's perfect, which is why she refuses to brush it, even though her mom always complains it's a mess. In fact, it's more than a mess--it's a nest for a mother bird and her three colorful eggs! Fia takes excellent care of her birds and shows off her tangle-knot everywhere she goes, attracting lots of attention. As the spectacle grows, so does Mom's disapproval. But Fia's commitment to...

Attending the royal debut party, their one chance to impress the Prince and live up to their cruel and bitter mother's expectations, sisters Drizella and Anastasia get a taste of freedom, pitting them against a mother whose greatest power lies in manipulation.

Fifteen-year-old Amanda's refined life in early twentieth-century San Francisco is disrupted when she grudgingly accompanies her mother to the Oklahoma Territory on a crusade to save the buffalo.