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Seven-year-old Ramona Quimby, feeling that she is perhaps not as loved as her younger sister, tries a number of ploys to get her mother's attention.

An abridged version of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of four sisters growing up in 1800s New England; and contains over 400 vocabulary words and definitions, synonyms and pronunciation for each word, and discussion questions.

Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate.

Mary O'Hara, a twelve-year-old Dublin schoolgirl, is bravely facing the fact that her beloved Gran is dying.

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.

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.

A fictional account of a young girl's coming of age in Antigua, from a doted upon childhood to an adolescence fraught with events and alliances leading her away from mutual complacent acceptance.

When Bee aces her report card she claims her reward, which is a trip to Antarctica, but her mother, Bernadette, disappears due to her intensifying allergy to Seattle and people in general, which has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands and Bee uses emails, invoices, school memos, private correspondence, and other evidence to try and understand why her mother has left.

Edie Burchill travels to Middlehurst Castle, the longtime residence of the Blythe spinsters, to seek out information about her mother, who was billeted there as a thirteen-year-old during World War II, and winds up finding out more than she imagined.

Mientras el padre de la familia esta combatiendo en la guerra, la senora March y sus cuatro hijas intentan salir adelante a pesar de las dificultades economicas.

Famous radio talk-show host Nora Bridge calls upon her estranged daughter Ruby for help after being involved in a serious car accident, and is thrilled when Ruby agrees, not realizing her youngest daughter has taken on the job simply to gather material for a tell-all book that will destroy Nora's career.

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.

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.

Ivy has loved living with her best friend and being part of Prairie s lively, supportive family.

Raised by a mother who has had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician.