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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.

Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family.

Obsessed with solving people's problems, Scarlet finds herself often pushing her own needs off to the side.

Siddalee Walker, a successful theater director, is thrown into a void of uncertainty when she has a falling out with her mother, Vivi, over a New York Times article in which Vivi is characterized as an abusive parent, and the Ya-Yas, Vivi's gang of lifelong girlfriends, conspire to restore the mother-daughter relationship.

The story of four strong-willed women of the del Pino family of Havana and of Brooklyn who are divided by conflicting political loyalties.

Uprooted and living with an aunt in 1960s Oklahoma, thirteen-year-old Garnet and her older sister Opal brave their mother's desertion and their father's recovery from an accident, learning that "the best home of all is the one you make inside yourself.

Creative, intelligent, nine-year-old Mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother.

Seventeen-year-old Natalie, a girl who seems to have everything, goes in pursuit of her real mother.

After heartbreaking betrayal, Carley is sent to live with a foster family and struggles with opening herself up to their love.

High schooler Kendra longs to live with her mother who, unprepared for motherhood at age fourteen, left Kendra in the care of her grandmother.

Thirteen-year-old Lacey is hopeful that her mother's ghosts will go away when she starts a job at the local grocery store, but as her mother's memories and mental images crowd out reality, everything in Lacey's life begins to spiral out of control.

Melinda has a very difficult day after having an almost sleepless night.

"Heather's favorite number is two. She has two arms, two legs, and two pets.