Life Is Fine
High school student Samara Tuttle finds a friend in her new English teacher, Mr.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 550
subjects: child abuse, mothers and daughters [X], interpersonal relations, african americans, philadelphia (pa.) [X]
A Little Piece Of Sky
Song Byrd, raised in poverty by her single mother, longs to escape from her outsider status in her family and neighborhood, but guilt keeps her from truly enjoying life after her mother is killed and she goes to live with her father in much improved circumstances.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: african american girls, single-parent families, mothers and daughters [X], mothers, philadelphia (pa.) [X]
The Corpse Queen
Orphaned seventeen-year-old Molly Green is eager to start a new life in her aunt's lucrative business selling corpses to medical students, but she quickly becomes entangled in a murderer's plans.
FIC
year:
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: dead, grave robbing, human body, irish americans, mothers and daughters [X], murder, sex role, gender role, homicide, mother-daughter relationship, philadelphia (pa.) [X]
The Unsettled
"Set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama--about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mothers and sons, mothers and daughters [X], shelters for the homeless, african americans, mother-son relationship, mother-daughter relationship, philadelphia (pa.) [X], historical fiction