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The Star Of Kazan

author: Ibbotson, Eva
Annika, a twelve-year-old foundling in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, and soon afterwards a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 880
subjects: abandoned children, identity, mothers and daughters [X], jewelry, mystery and detective stories, vienna (austria), austria, germany, individuality, mother-daughter relationship [X], mystery fiction [X]

I So Don't Do Spooky

author: Summy, Barrie
Thirteen-year-old Sherry helps her mother, a ghost, to investigate who is stalking Sherry's stepmother, but Sherry is also very busy with school and friends, while her mother is also striving for a gold medal in the Ghostlympics.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 610

I So Don't Do Makeup

author: Summy, Barrie
When Phoenix, Arizona, seventh-grader Sherry Baldwin hosts a makeover sleepover that causes horrible reactions in her friends' skin, she enlists the help of her mother, a ghost detective at the Academy of Spirits, to help solve the mystery of the tainted makeup.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: ghosts, mothers and daughters [X], cosmetics, mystery and detective stories, mother-daughter relationship [X], ghost stories, mystery fiction [X]

I So Don't Do Famous

author: Summy, Barrie
When thirteen-year-old Sherry Baldwin's essay wins a magazine contest, she, her father, and best friend Junie go to Hollywood, where she helps her ghost-detective mother and another ghost investigate a series of burglaries.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 610
subjects: mothers and daughters [X], fathers and daughters, celebrities, burglary, ghosts, ghost stories, mother-daughter relationship [X], father-daughter relationship, theft, mystery fiction [X], ghost stories, mystery fiction

I So Don't Do Mysteries

author: Summy, Barrie
Thirteen-year-old Sherry is visited by the ghost of her mother, who asks Sherry to help solve a case that involves rhinoceros poaching at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, and Sherry's involvement not only helps save the rhinos, but it also brings mother and daughter closer together than ever before.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600
subjects: ghost stories, mother-daughter relationship [X], rhinoceroses, mystery fiction [X], san diego (calif.), mothers and daughters [X], ghosts, mystery and detective stories, detective and mystery stories, mystery fiction

Sammy Keyes And The Showdown In Sin City

author: Van Draanen, Wendelin
"When youth sleuth Sammy Keyes travels to Las Vegas to stop her mom from marrying her boyfriend's dad, she never expects she'll learn the identity of her absent father in the process"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770

The Probable Future

author: Hoffman, Alice
Stella Sparrow, the latest in a long history of Sparrow women to have special gifts, discovers on her thirteenth birthday that she can see the future, an ability that has both positive and negative effects on her life and her family members.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: women, mothers and daughters [X], grandmothers, clairvoyants, murder, new england, mother-daughter relationship [X], mystery fiction [X], psychics, homicide, domestic fiction, mystery fiction, domestic fiction

The Long Secret

author: Fitzhugh, Louise
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.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: summer, vacations, religious life, mothers and daughters [X], friendship, humorous stories, humorous fiction, mystery fiction [X], mystery and detective stories, mother-daughter relationship [X]

Heart Of A Killer

author: Rosenfelt, David
Jamie Wagner, an unmotivated lawyer, is in over his head when a mother, who is convicted for killing her husband, wants to give her heart to her daughter who desperately needs a transplant and with no chance of the court allowing that, Jamie must work harder than ever to get her case reopened and prove her innocence.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mothers and daughters [X], mother-daughter relationship [X], mystery fiction [X], legal stories, fiction / thrillers

The Glass Lake

author: Binchy, Maeve
A novel of a mother's secret and a daughter's courage, and their relationship that neither deceit nor death can destroy.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: mothers and daughters [X], mother-daughter relationship [X], mystery fiction [X], ireland

Leaving Time

author: Picoult, Jodi
"Alice Metcalf was a devoted mother, loving wife, and accomplished scientist who studied grief among elephants.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 870
subjects: missing persons, mothers and daughters [X], teenage girls, mother-daughter relationship [X], mystery fiction [X], suspense fiction

When

author: Laurie, Victoria
Sixteen-year-old Maddie Flynn cannot help but see the death date of everyone she meets or sees in a photograph or on-screen, and her alcoholic mother exploits this by having her do readings for money, but when Maddie predicts the death of a young boy, she becomes the center of an FBI investigation.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 26
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820

Little White Lies

author: Barnes, Jennifer
Eighteen-year-old auto mechanic Sawyer Taft accepts her estranged grandmother's six-figure bribe to live with her for a year and to participate in the debutante season and ball, in order to possibly meet the father she has never known.
FIC
year:
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile:

A Friend Is A Gift You Give Yourself

author: Boyle, William
An unlikely trio of women in New York find themselves banding together to escape the clutches of an unhinged Mafia enforcer.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:

Girl, Unframed

author: Caletti, Deb
While spending a summer with her famous mother and her criminal boyfriend, Sydney Reilly, age fifteen, finds love with Nicco but her premonition of something bad coming proves dreadfully accurate.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: mother-daughter relationship [X], celebrities, dating (social customs), abused women, mystery fiction [X], san francisco (calif.), detective and mystery fiction, bildungsromans, mothers and daughters [X], coming of age

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