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Uses For Boys

author: Scheidt, Erica Lorraine
Anna manipulates the boys in her life to get what she needs and develops a negative reputation that is further complicated by her friendship with a secretive girl and a boy from a loving family who imparts illuminating lessons about honesty.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: interpersonal relations, friendship [X], mother-daughter relationship [X]

Yesterday's Child

author: Levitin, Sonia
After her mother's sudden death, high school student Laura starts hunting for information about her mother's mysterious past, and in searching, uncovers some terrible secrets.
FIC
year: 1998
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: mothers and daughters, murder, schools, mother-daughter relationship [X], homicide, friendship [X], high schools

Raina's Story

author: Mcdaniel, Lurlene
After sixteen-year-old Raina learns that she is a perfect match for donating bone marrow to a leukemia patient in Virginia, she discovers that the young woman is the sister she never knew she had.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: interpersonal relations, mothers and daughters, sisters, leukemia, friendship [X], florida, virginia, christian life, mother-daughter relationship [X]

Four Things My Geeky-jock-of-a-best-friend Must Do In Europe

author: Harrington, Jane
Written in the form of letters to her best friend, Delia, back home, Brady tells of her adventures while on a Mediterranean cruise with her mother and of her progress on Delia's list of things she must do, including the search for a code red "Euro-hottie.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 950

Silver

author: Kidd, Rob, Mazer, Norma Fox
Despite their different backgrounds, Sarabeth, a teenager living with her mother in a trailer and transferring to a new school, makes friends with Grant and her affluent friends, including troubled Patty who shares a painful secret about her uncle.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 520

Please, Please, Please

author: Vail, Rachel
Twelve-year-old CJ, an accomplished ballet student, struggles with her conflicting desires to continue her ballet study and please her mother or to quit ballet and finally be like all the other kids in school.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: identity (psychology), mothers and daughters, ballet dancing, friendship [X], schools, mother-daughter relationship [X], school stories

Beyond The Mango Tree

author: Zemser, Amy Bronwen
While living in Liberia with her possessive, diabetic mother and often-absent father, Sarina, a twelve-year-old white girl, longs for a friend with whom to experience the world beyond her yard.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840
subjects: mothers and daughters, diabetes, friendship [X], mother-daughter relationship [X], liberia

Rabble Starkey

author: Lowry, Lois
West Virginia twelve-year-old Rabble Starkey learns lessons about the inevitability of change after she and her mother, Sweet-Ho, who gave birth to her at the age of fourteen and never had a chance to get ahead, move into Rabble's best friend's home.
FIC
year: 1998
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 940
subjects: mothers and daughters, friendship [X], mentally ill, mother-daughter relationship [X], single-parent family

Stealing Heaven

author: Scott, Elizabeth
Eighteen-year-old Danielle grew up learning how to steal from her mother, and the two have spent their lives traveling around and targeting wealthy homes, but in the beach town of Heaven, when Dani realizes her new friend's home is actually her next target and her potential boyfriend is a police officer, she must try to hide her true identity.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690

Wild Horses

author: Stanley, George Edward, Bryant, Bonnie
Lisa Atwood just cannot work up the nerve to tell her mother she really does not want to go to Wentworth Manor, especially after she wins a full scholarship, so her friends in the Saddle Club come up with a plan to make Mrs.
599.66
year: 2007
copies: 12
call number/section: 599.66
lexile: 590
subjects: wild horses, horses, boarding schools, mothers and daughters, friendship [X], private schools, mother-daughter relationship [X]

The Catalogue Of The Universe

author: Mahy, Margaret
Determined to satisfy her curiosity about her unknown father, eighteen-year-old Angela May embarks on an emotional journey that shapes and forever alters the way she looks at herself, her unconventional mother, and her devoted friend Tycho.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1000

Rose's Story

author: Tamar, Erika
In 1906, mortified by her mother's suffragist activities that cause the family to move from New York City to Cape Light, fourteen-year-old Rose sees no value in her mother's feminist views until she tries to enter a horse riding competition open only to boys.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: horses, mothers and daughters, suffragists, friendship [X], moving, household, new england, mother-daughter relationship [X]

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

Dead Girl In Love

author: Singleton, Linda Joy
Temp Lifer Amber's third assignment takes her into the body of her best friend, Alyce, who is involved in some secret project involving cemeteries; while investigating, Amber encounters Dark Lifer Gabe, who wants to make a deal with her.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:

Trauma Queen

author: Dee, Barbara
Thirteen-year-old Marigold is mortified when her mother, a performance artist, becomes the new drama teacher at Marigold's school.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: friendship [X], interpersonal relations, mother-daughter relationship [X], school stories

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