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Author
Series
Splintered series volume 2
Language
English
Description
Life gets complicated once again for teenaged Alyssa when her mother returns home from an asylum and the mysterious Morpheus tempts Alyssa with another dangerous quest in the dark, challenging Wonderland.
Author
Series
Shadow game trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: Enne Salta was raised as a proper young lady, and no lady would willingly visit New Reynes, the so-called City of Sin. But when her mother goes missing, Enne must leave her finishing school?and her reputation?behind to follow her mother?s trail to the city where no one survives uncorrupted.
Author
Series
Market of monsters volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nita's mother hunts monsters and, after Nita dissects and packages them, sells them online but when Nita follows her conscience to help a live monster escape, she is sold on the black market in his place.
Author
Series
Hagenheim volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
7) Mosquitoland
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When she learns that her mother is sick in Ohio, Mim confronts her demons on a thousand-mile odyssey from Mississippi that redefines her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane"--
8) Raybearer
Author
Series
Raybearer volume 1
Language
English
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2020 Nebula Award--Winners & Finalists
2021 Hugo Winners and Finalists
School Library Journal - Best Teen Books of 2020
Staff Picks--Black History Month 2024 Edition
2021 Hugo Winners and Finalists
School Library Journal - Best Teen Books of 2020
Staff Picks--Black History Month 2024 Edition
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Description
Raised in isolation, Tarisai yearns for the closeness she could have as one of the Crown Prince's Council of 11, but her mother, The Lady, has magically compelled Tarisai to kill the Crown Prince.
9) Paper hearts
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Felicity, seventeen, has struggled to meet her mother's expectations since her older sister disappeared but when she connects with a famous band member at a charity ball, she begins to consider what will make her truly happy.
10) Lawless spaces
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
While a highly publicized sexual assault case threatens to destroy her and her mother, sixteen-year-old Mimi Dovewick tries to understand their tense relationship by reaching out to the women of her maternal line through the journals they all kept.
11) The safest lies
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"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"--
12) Full ride
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After her father is convicted of embezzlement, Becca Jones, fourteen, and her mother flee Georgia for small-town Ohio but three years later she learns that his misdeeds may have jeopardized not just her future but also her life.
13) Breathless
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Claudine is a sensitive girl ready to live her bravest life--sex, heartbreak, family dramas, and all.
14) Infandous
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sephora, a surfer and artist who loves fairy tales and mythology, struggles with a secret so horrible she cannot speak it aloud, especially not to her beautiful, single mother, although they have always been unusually close.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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"--
16) Girl, unframed
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
While spending a summer with her famous mother and her criminal boyfriend, Sydney Reilly, age fifteen, finds love with Nicco but her premonition of something bad coming proves dreadfully accurate.
17) When
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Maddie Flynn cannot help but see the death date of everyone she meets or sees in a photograph or on-screen, and her alcoholic mother exploits this by having her do readings for money, but when Maddie predicts the death of a young boy, she becomes the center of an FBI investigation.
18) To be honest
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Publisher Annotation: A high school senior must live alone with her weight-obsessed mother after her older sister goes off to college in this YA contemporary novel from the author of The Big F.
19) The possible
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A podcaster stirs up seventeen-year-old Kaylee's memories of her birth mother, who is infamous for alleged telekinetic ability and for murdering her own son.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ever since her mom found out she was in love with a girl, seventeen-year-old Lexi's afraid that what's left of her family is going to fall apart for good. New Horizons summer camp promises a new life for Lexi--she swears she can change. She can learn to like boys. But denying her feelings is harder than she thinks"--
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