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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.

Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.

Vanessa, the quiet middle child of a set of three beautiful sisters, is struggling to hold her family together as her mother travels between San Diego and Mexico, receiving treatments for leukemia that are banned in the U.

Seventh-grader Annabelle's mother is a hoarder, and their whole house is full of canned goods, broken toys, fabric, and old newspapers--but when a pile of newspapers (organized by weather reports) falls on Annabelle's younger sister Leslie and their mother is more concerned about the newspapers, it sets off a chain of events that brings their fix-it-all grandmother in and Annabelle realizes that if there is any hope for change she can not isolate herself and keep her family's problems secret.

What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all? Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura.

Eighteen-year-old auto mechanic Sawyer Taft accepts her estranged grandmother's six-figure bribe to live with her for a year and to participate in the debutante season and ball, in order to possibly meet the father she has never known.

"After her mother's death, Ivy is sent to live on an island with a rich uncle where she experiences nightmares and learns about her family's murderous past"--OCLC.

Thirteen-year-old Dinah Lance is in a rock band with her two best friends and has a good relationship with her mom, but when a mysterious figure threatens her friends and family, she learns more about herself and her mother's secret past.

"When her beloved nanny, Hannah, left without a trace in the summer of 1988, seven-year-old Jocelyn Holt was devastated.

"Margot doesn't know anything about her family, beyond her quiet life with her mother.

"[Love & Gelato]: After her mother dies, Lina travels to Italy where she discovers her mothers's journal and sets off on an adventure to unearth her mother's secrets"--Provided by publisher.

"Margot doesn't know anything about her family, beyond her quiet life with her mother.

"Tamarind has never met her Indian mother, Chinty, who died shortly after she was born.

To claim her inheritance, Helen Vaughan must spend one year in her ancestral home, Harrowstone Hall, and with her life and sanity at stake, she must unravel Harrowstone's secrets, an endeavor that forces her to question everything she knows about her family and herself.