Mothers and daughters | Batavia High School Media Center

Firefly Cloak

Seven years after being abandoned with her little brother at a Tennessee campground, fifteen-year-old Tessa Lee learns that her mother has been living two hours away.

Abandoned children, Bildungsromans, Domestic fiction, fiction, Girls

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Born Blue

Han Nolan

Janie was four years old when she nearly drowned due to her mother's neglect.

Abandoned children, fiction, Mothers and daughters, Singers

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Amazing Grace

Megan Shull

Teen superstar Grace Kincaid telephones her mother that she wants out of the multi-million dollar endorsements and celebrity, and soon she finds herself in hiding with a new name and a new identity.

Celebrities, fiction, Identity, Mothers and daughters

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Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England. Selected words in text highlighted and defined for vocabulary building.

Family life, fiction, March family (Fictitious characters), Mother-daughter relationship, Mothers and daughters

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You're Wearing That?

Deborah Tannen

A study of the mother-daughter relationship that shows how to improve communication within a family by developing an understanding of the other's point of view.

Communication in the family, Conversation analysis, Interpersonal communication, Mothers and daughters, Parent and adult child

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The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan

In 1949 four Chinese women began meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong. They called their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Forty years later they look back and remember.

Chinese Americans, fiction, Mothers and daughters

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Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for con

Domestic fiction, Donation of organs, tissues, etc, fiction, Leukemia, Mothers and daughters

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Fake Id

Walter Sorrells

After a lifetime of moving and assuming new identities, sixteen-year-old Chass begins to piece together the past that haunts her and her mother which involves a mysterious tape, a deceased popular sin

Alabama, fiction, Identity, Mothers and daughters, Murder

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My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult

Domestic fiction, Donation of organs, tissues, etc, fiction, Leukemia, Mothers and daughters

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The Foretelling

Alice Hoffman

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.

Amazons, Black Sea, Coming of age, Fate and fatalism, fiction

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