The Joy Luck Club
The personal, often painful, histories of four Chinese American women who began meeting in San Francisco in 1949 to play mah jong are revealed as the daughter of one who has died searches for her sisters in China to tell them about the mother they never knew.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 250
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 930
subjects: chinese american women, mothers and daughters [X], mother-daughter relationship [X], chinese americans, women, domestic fiction, tan, amy, chinese american literature, american literature, chinese american fiction, reminiscing in old age, loss (psychology), san francisco (calif.), audiobooks, mothers, female friendship, domestic fiction [X], family life, electronic books [X]
Outburst
After spending time in a juvenile detention center for a crime related to severe anger issues, seventeen-year-old Jada Robinson is sent to a foster home and enrolled in an alternative high school, and begins to move past her old life.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: anger management, anger, foster home care, high schools, schools, african americans, mothers and daughters [X], letters, school stories, mother-daughter relationship [X], domestic fiction [X], electronic books [X], young adult fiction
God Help The Child
Follows the life of Bride, a young African American woman, as she forms connections with a man named Booker and a white child named Rain while trying to get close to her emotionally distant mother.
FIC
year:
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: african americans, mother-daughter relationship [X], mothers and daughters [X], electronic books [X], domestic fiction [X]
The Secret Of Goldenrod
When Trina and her father move into Goldenrod, an abandoned Victorian mansion, Trina's convinced the place is haunted.
FIC
year:
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: moving, dolls, friendship, father-daughter relationship, moving, household, mothers and daughters [X], fathers and daughters, dwellings, houses, mother-daughter relationship [X], domestic fiction [X], electronic books [X]
A Girl Returned
Unexpectedly a thirteen-year-old girl is sent from the only family she knows back to her birth family, a noisy, chaotic group of people.
FIC
year:
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: teenage girls, birthparents, mothers and daughters [X], mother-daughter relationship [X], domestic fiction [X], electronic books [X]