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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, and she's only there because it was her mother's dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father isn't around for sixteen years? When Lina is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy, she begins to uncover a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. Soon Lina is inspired to follow in her mother's footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept from...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Juliet Young has always written letters to her mother, a world famous photojournalist--even after her mother's death, she leaves letters at her grave. When Declan finds a haunting letter left beside a grave, he can't resist the urge to write back. Soon, he is sharing his pain with a perfect stranger. When real life interferes with their secret life of letters, Juliet and Declan discover truths that might tear them apart"--
4) The reminder
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A teenaged girl who hears her dead mother's voice makes a startling discovery after breaking into her father's industrial robotics lab and finding his latest secret project: a lifelike replica of her mother's head that looks, talks, moves, and even smiles just like her mother.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This refreshingly original, contemporary YA debut centers on Rooney, a teen girl struggling to hold her family together in the face of her mother's delusions.It's not the end of the world, but for Rooney Harris it's starting to feel that way. It's the beginning of senior year, and her mom just lost her job. Even worse, she isn't planning to get another one. Instead, she's spending every waking moment with a group called the Next World Society,...
Author
Series
Claire de Lune novels volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On her sixteenth birthday Claire discovers strange things happening and when her mother reveals their family secret which explains the changes, Claire feels her world, as she has known it to be, slowly slipping away.
Author
Series
Between the lines volume 1
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xi, 287 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lil Bennett goes to Crete to find answers about the circumstances of her mother's death, and there finds herself entangled in an adventure of mythical proportions that leads her and her friends through the very labyrinth in which the real Minotaur was imprisoned"--
10) Turtle under ice
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her mother died a few years ago, Rowena and her sister, Ariana, drifted into their own corners of the world, each figuring out in their own separate ways how to exist in a world in which their mother is no longer alive. When Ariana disappears-- at night, in the middle of a snowstorm-- Row is left to piece together the mystery behind where Ariana went and why. And she comes to realize that she might be part of the reason Ariana is gone. -- adapted...
11) Love bomb
Author
Series
Ladybirds volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
201 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In her late mother's letters, quirky fifteen-year-old Betty finds support as she deals with her first crush, her father's new girlfriend, and changing friendships.
12) So B. It
Author
Series
So B. it volume 1
Language
English
Description
The only family that 13-year-old Heidi has ever known is an unusual one made up of her developmentally disabled mother and their agoraphobic neighbor, Bernadette. Bernadette ("Bernie") has been taking care of both Heidi and her mother since they showed up in her Reno, Nevada apartment building soon after Heidi was born. But since Heidi's mom only uses 23 different words, neither Heidi nor Bernie really knows where she came from or whether Heidi and...
13) The foretelling
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Growing up the daughter of an Amazon queen who shuns her, Rain rebels against the ways of her tribe through her sister-like relationship with Io and her feelings for a boy from a tribe of wanderers.
15) Summer Bird Blue
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Rumi Seto plans to spend her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea. When Lea dies in a car accident, her mother sends Rumi to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Struggling with the loss of her sister, abandoned by her mother, and without music in her life, Rumi turns to the friendship of a teenage surfer named Kai, and an eighty-year-old named George Watanabe. And Rumi is determined to write the song she and...
16) Flightsend
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an incident at school, seventeen year-old Alaine is spending spring break in a "volunteer immersion project", toiling away under the ever-watchful eyes of Tati Estelle and her eagle-eyed mother at a new nonprofit in Haiti. Although it is meant as punishment, Alaine is still able to flirt with Tati's distractingly cute intern, get some actual face time with her mom and experience her family's history in Haiti for the first time.
18) Rhiannon
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
iii, 347 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Rhiannon lives high on the bluff of Clodaghcombe with her healer Mom and grandmother. She helps them tend to the sick and wounded from the town below--a town swirling with controversy ever since the arrival of the Norman gentry and the tragic shipwreck that killed the king's only son and heir to the throne. Rhiannon finds herself transfixed imagining the horrid disaster that took so many youths near her own age. Then tragedy strikes...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After the loss of her mother, Allie is sent from Tennessee to Maine to become the daughter of Miss Beatrice Lovell, a prim woman with a faith Allie cannot accept. Clinging to the past is comforting but will it cost Allie her chance to be loved?
20) Forget-her-nots
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
At a Charlottesville, Virginia, boarding school, fourteen-year-old Laurel realizes that she shares her deceased mother's connection with flowers, but as she begins to learn their ancient language and share it with other students, she discovers powers that are beyond her control.
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