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When Kelsey's agoraphobic mother disappears after years of claiming the kidnappers she escaped from were coming back for her, Kelsey quickly discovers that her mother isn't who she thought she was--and she's not the abductor's only target.

While running errands with her mother, a young girl who likes to dress as a cowgirl tries to be helpful but her efforts always seem to backfire.

Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.

When Lottie persuades her mother to let her wear her sparkly gold dress to school, their day becomes very special.

Constantly embarrassed by her eccentric mother, Rory finds solace with her many pets and wonders what it would be like to live with the departed father she hardly knows.

Five-year-old Birdie loves her mother's shoes, but when she is finally granted permission to wear some for a little while, she discovers that her "barefoot shoes" are best of all.

In medieval Hagenheim, Germany, seventeen-year-old Rapunzel asks God for guidance as she tries to dutifully serve and obey her unpredictable mother, yet fulfill her dream of learning to read and marrying.

Anna and her mother have moved hundreds of miles to put the past behind them. Anna hopes to make a fresh start and escape the harassment she's been subjected to. But then rumors and whispers start, and Anna tries to ignore what is happening by immersing herself in learning about Maggie, a local woman accused of witchcraft in the seventeenth century. A woman who was shamed. Silenced. And whose story has unsettling parallels to Anna's own.

When all of their special Saturday plans go awry, Ava and her mother still find a way to appreciate one another and their time together.

In 1977 in Princeton, Dana's daughter seven-year-old Francie is struggling to keep her dyslexia a secret from her teachers and family, and even the thought of high school and college is part of the remote and unattainable future.