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c2003., Ages 3-6, Putnam's Call No: G DAN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Fourth-grader Amber Brown must make some important decisions when her mother and Max move their wedding date up and prepare to buy a house together, while her father makes some bad choices of his own.
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c2004., Adult, Random House Call No: FIC BER Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Laura Bartone, now in her fifties, is forced to face unpleasant truths from the past when her troubled sister Caroline calls on the eve of a family reunion and asks to meet with her and their brother to discuss the abuses she believes she suffered at their hands of their emotionally distant mother.
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[2004], c1996., 5-8, Yearling Call No: Y WHI Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When Woodrow's mother suddenly disappears, he moves to his grandparents' home in a small Virginia town where he befriends his cousin and together they find the strength to face the terrible losses and fears in their lives.
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c2005., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: FIC MIT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Advice columnist Julieanne is shocked when her husband asks for a separation, leaving her and their three children behind to fend for themselves, but when Julieanne is diagnosed with a serious illness, Julieanne must find a way to care for her children and prepare them for a life without either of their parents.
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By Rice, Luanne2004., Adult, Bantam Books Call No: FIC RIC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Jane Porter leaves her upscale New York City bakery to return to Twin Rivers, Rhode Island, to help care for her ailing mother, where she finds the secret of her past complicated by her growing attraction to widowed apple grower Dylan Chadwick.
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c2003., 4.8; Ages 4-8, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: PB BUZ Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Mama Duck tries to keep Dawdle Duckling together with his siblings, but he wants to dawdle and dream, preen and play, splash and spin.
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c2005., Adult, WestBow Press Call No: FIC GUN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Abby returns to her childhood home in rural Louisiana, hoping to share the wisdom of her ninety-two-year-old grandma with her daughter Hannah, but instead of the wise, loving woman Abby remembers, she finds an old woman with the power to crush Hannah's spirit.
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c2000., Ages 4-8, Scholastic Call No: E BLA Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Hello reader.Summary Note: After their mother gets home from work, her two children enjoy spending the evening at the park with her.
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1994, c1991., 4.7; Ages 4-8, North-South Books Call No: PB PFI Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Even though he doesn't like the cold snow, Hopper, a little hare, enjoys playing with a friend and the adventure of searching for food with his mother.
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[2004], c1997., Ages 4-8, Scholastic Call No: PB MCC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A mother and child discuss how the mother's love would remain constant even if her child were a stinky skunk, scary ape, or bug-eating green alien.
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c1991., 4.8; Ages 3-6, Delacorte Press Call No: G MAC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Left by their mother with their grandparents, two children feel as if their past has been erased until Grandfather finds a way to restore it to them.
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c1998., Ages 4-8, Scholastic Call No: PB PEN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When Chester the raccoon is reluctant to go to kindergarten for the first time, his mother teaches him a secret way to carry her love with him.
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2003, c1999., Scholastic Press/Callaway Call No: E KIR Edition: 1st Sunny Patch Lib Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: David Kirk's Sunny Patch LibrarySummary Note: On her very first day of life, Little Miss Spider searches for her mother and finds love in an unexpected place.
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2007., Ages 4-8, Viking Call No: PB DEW Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Bored and frustrated, Llama Llama moves steadily toward a tantrum during a trip with Mama to the grocery store, and Mama realizes there must be a way to make shopping more fun.
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2005., 2.5; Ages 4-8, Viking Call No: PB DEW Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: At bedtime, a little llama gets scared after his mother puts him to bed and turns out the light, so he goes downstairs where Mama puts it all right.
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c1991., Ages 4-8, Chronicle Books Call No: PB JOO Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An Inuit child learns that her mother's love is unconditional when she disobeys and journeys across the Arctic, from village to ice floe, in search of her puppy.
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2010, c2008., 2.5; Ages 4-8, Puffin Books Call No: PB PAR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Dandelion Duck promises Mama Quack that he will be careful as he goes off to play with his friends, but he fails to notice the dangers nearby.
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c2004., Adult, Zondervan Call No: FIC KIN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Connor Evans, an airline pilot, tries to decide whether or not to accept into his family his young son from a previous affair with a stewardess.
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By Saul, Johnc2005., Adult, Ballantine Books Call No: FIC SAU Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Kara Marshall's attempts to convince authorities that her teenage daughter Lindsay is not a typical teenage runaway, but the victim of foul play, begin to yield results when it becomes clear that a psychopath is using real estate open houses to choose the targets of his multiple crimes.
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c2004., Adult, Tyndale House Call No: FIC KIN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Redemption series Volume: 4Summary Note: Brooke and Peter Baxter's troubled marriage is further challenged when their three-year-old daughter's life is threatened from a pool accident and both parents struggle to deal with their own guilt and pain.