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"Margot doesn't know anything about her family, beyond her quiet life with her mother. But she wants more and when she finds a clue that leads her to a town called Phalene, she leaves to investigate. Only Phalene and her family history are full of secrets, some that may prove more dangerous and deadly than Margot ever could have bargained for"--

The suburbs, right now . . .Ivy's summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger whose appearance in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, heralds a string of increasingly unsettling events. As the days pass, Ivy grapples with eerie offerings, corroded memories, and a burning question: What if there's more to her mother than meets the eye? The city, back then . . .Dana has always been perceptive. And...

When she goes to work with her mother on a Saturday, Adventure Annie uses her own special methods to help find a missing report.

A thirteen-year-old girl gains a much more sympathetic understanding of her relationship with her mother when she has to spend a day in her mother's body.

On a starry night a girl and her mother climb the hill above their farm, watching and listening to the natural world around them.

When a mother and daughter are separated by the mother's incarceration, they find a special way to keep their loving relationship alive.

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 a young girl has a series of mishaps at home one day, her mother tries not to lose her temper--and does not quite succeed.

When Polly and her mother take a walk on the farm on a foggy morning, Polly learns that things are still there even though the fog hides them.

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.