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Journey is eleven the summer his mother leaves him and his sister, Cat, with their grandparents. He is sad and angry, and spends the summer looking for the clues that will explain why she left. Journey searches photographs for answers. He looks for family resemblances in Grandma's slbums. Looking for happier times, he tries to put together the torn pieces of the pictures his mother shredded before her departure. And he also searches the photographs...

Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.

Having survived the macabre deaths of her first two children, Nancy Harmon has moved, remarried, had another boy and girl and then suddenly finds the whole nightmare starting over again.

A young llama wants to play but must go shopping with his mother instead, and so he gets angry and makes a mess at the store.

Chester Raccoon is worried that his mother does not have enough love for both him and his new baby brother.

When Woodrow's mother suddenly disappears, he moves to his grandparents' home in a small Virginia town where he befriends his cousin and together they find the strength to face the terrible losses and fears in their lives. Woodrow's cousin, Gypsy, lives next door, and the two children find they have much in common. But unlike Woodrow, who has accepted his mother's disappearance, Gypsy can't get over her father's death. That's when Woodrow tells Gypsy...

As the sun slowly fades and the soft, silver moon rises, baby animals snuggle down to sleep while their mothers watch over them.

There are many babies in the bayou, and even though they might have sharp white teeth, hard shells, webbed feet, or quick claws, their mothers still need to protect them.

Lyle the crocodile experiences many changes in his life when his mother moves in with the Primm family and Mrs. Primm announces she is expecting a baby.

A little frog makes increasingly bold leaps out into the world, and then comes back to his mother after each excursion.