It's Jack's birthday and he's excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside.

When the world tips upside down, baby animals tumble out of bed, landing in the arms of different mothers.

When Mr. Church is hired to cook for a single mother and her daughter Charlotte for six months a unique friendship develops between Mr. Church and Charlotte that lasts for fifteen years.

Little Bear and Sal both go berrying with their mothers, but after sitting down to rest, they each end up following the other one's mother.

Mother Mouse must leave her nest because the farmer is coming to plow the field, so Mother Mouse begins her search for another place.

A mother explains to her child all the ways her love remains even while she's away.

Little Monday, a baby rabbit, searches for his mother with the help of his woodland friends.

Illustrations and rhyming text portray a young bear searching for its mother and meeting many North American animals along the way in this easy-reader version of the 2007 tale. Includes note to parents and teachers, as well as activities.

Brooke and Peter Baxter's troubled marriage is further challenged when their three-year-old daughter's life is threatened from a pool accident and both parents struggle to deal with their own guilt and pain.

"Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come...