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At the End of Words: A Daughter's Memoirs
by Miriam Stone
In journal entries and poems, Stone
recounts the period when her mother was
dying of cancer.
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Certain Things About My Mother: Daughter's Speak
by Susan Musgrave
A host of mother-daughter relationships
are profiled in this nonfiction
compilation.
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Children of the Movement
by John Blake
Blake examines civil rights activists
and their sons and daughters and how
the movement affected their
relationships.
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Dante's Daughter
by Kimberly Heuston
This is a fictional account of Dante's
daughter, Beatrice, and how she
struggled to find a place in the
tumultuous world she lived in.
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Dirty Laundry: Stories About Family Secrets
by Lisa Rowe Fraustino
This collection of eleven original
short stories explores the many ways
families can have secrets from the
outside world and from each other.
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Distant Land of My Father
by Bo Caldwell
Through his daughter's eyes, readers
learn of Joseph Schoene's fall from
charismatic millionaire to tortured
prisoner.
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Grams, Her Boyfriend, My Family and Me
by Pat Derby
Andy must save the day when his
grandmother moves in and gets a
boyfriend his father can't stand.
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I Thought My Father Was God
by Paul Auster
This anthology includes 197 stories by
authors who have never been published
including priests, prisoners, and
students. Their stories are all true
are and range from heartbreaking to
hilarious.
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Jefferson's Children: The Story of One American Family
by Shannon Lanier
Lanier profiles the descendants of
Thomas Jefferson including those from
his relationship with Sally Hemings, a
slave at the time.
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Little Sister
by Kara Dalkey
In 12th-century Japan, 13-year-old
Mitsuko unwittingly accepts the help of
a shape-shifting demon to search for
her missing older sister.
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My Sister from the Black Lagoon
by Laurie Fox
Fox writes a story of a family that is
profoundly affected by the mental
illness of the eldest daughter.
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Nobody's Son
by Sean Stewart
After Mark breaks an ancient curse on
the kingdom, he is rewarded with one
wish to be granted by the king. Mark
asks to be married to the King's
youngest daughter and soon finds
himself married and the Duke of the
Borderlands. However, Mark soon learns
that being a duke and a husband are not
easy tasks.
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Perfect Family
by Jerrie Oughton
When Welcome finds out that she is
pregnant, she must make some tough
decisions.
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Roots and Flowers: Poets and Poems on Family
by Liz Rosenberg
This anthology of contemporary poets
explores what is means to be in a
family. Each poet has also included a
family snapshot and a brief note on
their family and its effect on their
poetry.
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Shizuko's Daughter
by Kyoko Mori
After losing her mother to suicide,
Yuki's father marries the woman with
whom he has been having a long-term
affair. Resentful of both her father
and his bride, Yuki does not feel like
she has a home.
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Shylock's Daughter
by Marjam Pressler
Pressler provides a fresh perspective
on Shakespeare's A Merchant of Venice
with her story of a wealthy Jewish girl
contemplating leaving her family and
religion behind to join a handsome
aristocrat named Lorenzo.
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Sister of the Bride
by Beverly Cleary
16-year-old girl Barbara watches as her
18-year-old sister Rosemary decides to
get married. Barbara is happy for her
sister, and dreams of the day she falls
in love and marries someone too, but
then Barbara's fun, young, loving
sister suddenly turns into a very
practical grown-up.
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Son of the Mob
by Gordon Korman
Vince Luca wants to be a normal guy.
There is just one complication; his
father is the head of a powerful crime
organization.
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Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
by Virginia Hamilton
With her father long gone and her
practical-nurse mother away most of the
time, 14-year-old Teresa must care for
her retarded older brother, Dab.
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Swiss Family Robinson
by Johann Wyss
This is the classic story of a
shipwrecked family trying to survive on
the deserted island on which they wash
ashore.
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Thanks to My Mother
by Shoshanah Rabinovits
Susie Weksler was only eight when the
Nazis invaded her town of Vilnius,
Lithuania in 1941. She survived the
starvation and brutal conditions due to
her mother's strength.
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The Pirate's Son
by Geraldine McCaughrean
Left penniless in eighteenth century
England, fourteen-year-old Nathan Gull
and his sister Maud accompany Tamo, the
son of a notorious pirate, to his home
where they encounter unexpected danger
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The Weight of It: A Story of Two Sisters
by Amy Wilensky
Wilensky chronicles the relationship
between her sister and herself and the
strain that developed in their
relationship because of Allison's
obesity.
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The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife
by Kobie Kruger
Kruger and her family lived at a remote
ranger station in the wilds of South
Africa's National Park for seventeen
years. In her memoir she recounts their
adventures and the animals that became
a part of their lives.
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What My Mother Doesn't Know
by Sonya Sones
This story written in poetry form
follows Sophie as she struggles to
figure out school, friendships, the
opposite sex, and why her parents act
the way they do.
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