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Murdered, My Sweet

author: Nixon, Joan Lowery
Jenny and her mother hunt a killer while fearing for their own safety, after the reading of their millionaire cousin's will leads to the murder of another cousin.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: murder, mothers and daughters, mystery and detective stories, homicide, mother-daughter relationship [X]

Close To A Killer

author: Qualey, Marsha
Seventeen-year-old Barrie finds herself involved in a string of murders that are somehow connected to her mother's hair salon.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600
subjects: murder, mothers and daughters, mystery and detective stories, homicide, mother-daughter relationship [X]

Spite Fences

author: Krisher, Trudy
Thirteen-year-old Maggie Pugh's abusive relationship with her mother and her close friendships within the African-American community of Kinship, Georgia stir up racial tension and threaten the town's way of life.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: race relations, mothers and daughters, georgia, mother-daughter relationship [X]

Night Flying

author: Murphy, Rita
As the time for her solo flight on the sixteenth birthday approaches, Georgia begins to question the course of her life and her relationships with the other women in her unusual family.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: mothers and daughters, sisters, flight, mother-daughter relationship [X]

Find A Stranger, Say Goodbye

author: Lowry, Lois
Seventeen-year-old Natalie, a girl who seems to have everything, goes in pursuit of her real mother.
FIC
year: 1990
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: adoption, family life, mothers and daughters, mother-daughter relationship [X], families, adventure fiction

Morning Is A Long Time Coming

author: Greene, Bette
En route to Germany in search of the maternal love she never had, eighteen-year-old Patty Bergen lingers in Paris and experiences her first love affair.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1010
subjects: mothers and daughters, prejudices, jews, mother-daughter relationship [X], large type books, large print books

Love And Other Four-letter Words

author: Mackler, Carolyn
When she and her mother move to an apartment in New York City after her parents decide on a trial separation, sixteen-year-old Sammie learns to deal with her mother's fragile mental state, her best friend's self-centeredness, several new friendships, and her own budding sexuality.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 880

Locked Inside

author: Werlin, Nancy
After she is kidnapped from the exclusive boarding school she attends, heiress Marnie Skyedottir must rethink her idealized relationship with her mother, her own sense of who she is, and her relationships with others.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 550
subjects: mothers and daughters, kidnapping, identity, self-perception, mother-daughter relationship [X], individuality

A Mother's Gift

author: Spears, Britney
Fourteen-year-old Holly Fay Lovell leaves the small southern town where she lives with her mother, a seamstress, in order to pursue her dream of a singing career, not knowing the whole truth about her humble beginnings.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mothers and daughters, singing, schools, mother-daughter relationship [X], mississippi, school stories

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