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Orphaned at the age of four when her village in Vietnam is bombed, Kim is rescued by soldiers and raised in an orphanage, always finding comfort in her mothers last words--"Don't be afraid.

Starting a new school year, everything is "easy-peasy, simple-pimple" for Charlie until her strict teacher assigns a tough school project and Charlie's mother loses her job.

During the autumn of the year, thirteen-year-old Sarah learns her mother is dying of cancer.

Before Mama arrives for dinner, her daughters are desperate to make oxtail stew, her favorite dish, and make it right now.

A little pig does her best to create a special day for her mother.

A mother tells her daughter a series of stories about life on Guam before the daughter was born and when she was a baby.

While at the beach for the summer, Harriet tries to uncover the author of mysterious religious notes that appear all over town and which make her ponder her own beliefs, and Beth Ellen meets the mother she last saw when she was four years old.

Kate returns to New York after abandoning her family years earlier and finds that her daughter is planning to marry a man Kate once was, and still is, in love with.

Claire's life takes a dramatic turn and suddenly she has everything she thought she wanted; but soon Claire begins to worry that the cost of her success may be too high.

Estrella is a filly, daughter of the lead mare, one of a shipment of horses bound for the new world, but when the ship is becalmed and the horses are dropped overboard to lighten the load, Estrella finds that it is up to her to lead the herd to land and safety.

The life of Jewel Hilburn, a mother living with her husband and children in the backwoods of Mississippi in 1943, undergoes a drastic change when her sixth child, Brenda Kay, is born without the gift of common sense.

With the help of her best friend, sixteen-year-old Mindy sorts through her relationships with her solicitous mother and her detached father as she tries to come to terms with the fact that her mother is dying from a brain tumor.

Thirteen-year-old tomboy, Megan McCaffery is just beginning to enjoy growing up when her mother is diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor.

Hazelle, taken to live in an orphanage after her mother is hospitalized, is forced to leave New York and travel to Texas on an orphan train, but she is lucky enough to be adopted by an understanding family that helps her find out what happened to her mom.

Martha Tod Dudman discusses how she dealt with her daughter's drug addiction.