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1) After Anna
Author
Language
English
Description
"Nobody cuts deeper than family ... Noah Alderman, a doctor and a widower, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie, and for the first time in a long time he and his son are happy. But their lives are turned upside down when Maggie's daughter Anna moves in with them. Anna is a gorgeous seventeen-year-old who balks at living under their rules though Maggie, ecstatic to have her daughter back, ignores the red flags that hint at the trouble that is brewing....
2) Spike it!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unhappy at having to share space and family with her new stepsister Michaela when her father remarries, thirteen-year-old Jamie is further dismayed when Michaela joins her volleyball team and becomes a star player.
3) Cinder
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
4) Stranded
Author
Series
Stranded volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jane, Buzz, Carter, and Vanessa, aged nine to thirteen, are on a sailing trip in the South Pacific intended to help them bond in their newly-blended family when a massive storm strands them on a deserted island.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Julia Alden has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. American obstetrician James is everything she didn't know she wanted--if only her teenage daughter, Gwen, didn't hate him so much. Uniting two households is never easy, but when Gwen turns for comfort to James's seventeen-year-old son, Nathan, the consequences will test her mother's loyalty and threaten all their fragile new happiness."--
Author
Series
One big happy family volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Amanda Lambright loves Wyman Brubaker, and after four years as a single mother, she is grateful for his support and for this new chance at happiness as his wife. She's confident that their children will get along just fine. But once Amanda's clan moves into Wyman's home, the tight quarters and Wyman's reluctance to make changes to accommodate Amanda cause friction. The older kids are squabbling. The little ones are frequently in tears. Tiny Alice...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Once, they were the happiest family under the sun, crabbing and fishing and painting on beautiful Edisto Island in South Carolina's lowcountry very thing went wrong, and twenty years later the Bennett family is still in pieces. Mary Ellen still struggles to understand why her picture-perfect marriage came apart. Daughter Meg keeps a death grip on her own family, controlling her relationships at a distance. And eldest daughter, Julia, left it all...
9) Black River
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A former prison guard and talented fiddler returns to his Montana hometown to bury his wife and confront the inmate who, twenty years ago, held him hostage during a prison riot.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Wedding bells are ringing, a family is reunited, and new romances are blooming--for better or for worse--in an enthralling novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Island House and Secrets in Summer. It's summer on Nantucket and Alison isfinally engaged to the love of her life. Things would be perfect--if only she could make peace between her daughters. Felicity, wild at heart yet a loving mother to her own children, and Jane, the...
11) Kiss me again
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Having once shared a kiss with her best friend's boyfriend, Kevin, fourteen-year-old Charlie finds life even more awkward when their parents marry, making Kevin, still her crush, now her stepbrother.
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 6
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Although Mia feels fairly satisfied with her life, she worries about who should attend parent-teacher night and her failing grade in Spanish.
13) Summer's end
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2011, c1999
Language
English
Description
After Jack Wells' mother marries Amy Legend's widowed father, Jack and Amy become romantically involved, but find it difficult to handle the mixed reactions of their various family members when their romance is revealed.
14) The winter witch
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Now that his parents are divorced, Stephen is not looking forward to Christmas in a new home with his new Jewish stepmother; but an old neighbor gives him perspective on the common meaning of several winter festivals.
15) Spellfall
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Natalie, unaware of her own powers, is kidnapped by a wizard, she, her stepbrother, and their friends are caught up in the sorcerer's attempt to cross an invisible boundary in order to invade another world.
16) Ash
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the king's huntress whom she loves.
Author
Series
Meet the Kreeps volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As her father prepares to marry their new neighbor, Veronica Kreep, Polly tries to convince him that there is something sinister and strange about Veronica and her family.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010, c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the last months of high school, eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the present, staying drunk or high most of the time, but that could change when he starts working to boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee.
20) A hubbub
Author
Series
Mr. Badger and Mrs. Fox volume 2
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ginger the fox learns that, even though life with just her mother was very different, being part of a family can be a good thing, such as when some unwanted cats try to take over the children's clubhouse.
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