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In the chaotic turmoil that follows the Boov invasion of Earth, eleven-year-old Gratuity Tucci finds herself driving her mother's car to Florida, where all of the humans are being relocated, with her cat and a renegade extraterrestiral named J.

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.

Melody, hoping to finally learn the truth about her past, travels across the country to confront a woman she believes to be her mother--even though her mother supposedly died months earlier.

Zeeta, a down-to-earth girl, spends years with her flighty mom traveling the world, but when they try to settle down in Mazunte, Mexico, where Zeeta's true love Wendell is interning as a nature photographer, Zeeta is convinced that Mazunte is going to be their home, until she and Wendell uncover more about her elusive father's past.

Having fallen into an anonymous existence that allows her to keep her psychic gifts a secret, Julia Severn is surprised when she is asked to use her abilities to help locate a missing person.

"Alice Metcalf was a devoted mother, loving wife, and accomplished scientist who studied grief among elephants.

Selkie Bay is a place where the old legends seem very near, and eleven-year-old Cordelia believes that her secretive mother is a selkie who has returned to the sea--a belief that offers some hope as she struggles to care for her two younger sisters and help her scientist father make ends meet in their home by the sea.

"After surviving a fire in which her father dies, Nora and her mother live in a cemetery, but when her mother disappears and a loan shark steals her savings, Nora finds support from her cemetery neighbors to earn some money and search for her mother"--OCLC.

"Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was fifteen, the youngest of three.

Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.

"When Cricket's Aunt Belinda accidentally forgets her in the grocery store, Cricket decides to run away once and for all.

As ten-year-old Gwyn searches for a missing neighbor in her new town in Iowa, she learns much about her mother, who grew up there but has suffered from memory loss since Gwyn was four.

Jen Maddox is determined to understand what happened to her daughter, Lana, during the four days she was missing.

When Grace Carter's mother, a celebrity news anchor, suddenly vanishes, Grace's world is turned upside down.

"Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, grew up on a houseboat with her mother.