"Today will be special. Today will be splendid. Today is Saturday! This is the day Ava and her mother cherish. Saturday means: storytime, salon time, picnic time, and this week the best puppet show ever! But what happends when life doesn't exactly deliver on its promise? Join a mother and daughter on an up-and-down journey that reminds them of what's best about Saturdays: precious time together." --book jacket.

After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is.

When she was ten years old Kenna discovered that she had the ability to drain the life from another human being, and ever since she has been afraid to touch anyone--but when she uses that power to save her mother and twin sister from an attacker, her mother finally reveals the secret origin of her power, and she is forced to choose between the Kalyptra and a human life.

Eight-year-old Cassie Witting is upset when she finds out that her mother, Sarah, is expecting a baby, but writing in the journal that belonged to her brother Caleb helps her sort out her feelings and understand that Sarah will always love her.

"Four sisters rely on each other--and a bit of mysterious magic--to cope with their mother's illness"--

Four very different friends in Concord, Massachusetts, and their mothers continue their book club, reading Jean Webster's "Daddy Long-Legs," while getting to know their own pen pals from Wyoming. Includes mother-daughter book club questions.

When a little girl asks her mother about princesses, she learns that they are much like herself.

Teenage Bina runs away to New York City's Catherine House, a young women's residence in Greenwich Village with a tragic history and dark secrets, where she is drawn to her mysterious downstairs neighbor Monet.

"When Poppy stumbles upon a forgotten forest, she learns, with the guidance of a new friend, to find magic in the wilderness and must help her mother, who is deeply depressed after the death of her Gran, find beauty in both nature and in life"--

"Vampirina and her mom decide to start a Mother-Daughter Book Club! For their first club meeting, they choose a book everyone can really sink their teeth into! Only the book is magical and casts a spell on the humans! Vee and her mom will have to work together to break the spell!"--Provided by the publisher.