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Author
Publisher
XO Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Couples in blended—or “step”—families often feel misunderstood, even in the church. They struggle with complicated child behavioral issues, battle-pitched custody fights, and difficulty finding unity in co-parenting. Emotions such as guilt, shame, fear, or isolation threaten to overwhelm them. Now is the time for these families to feel heard, helped, and healed. In Blended and Redeemed, blended family experts, coaches, and therapists Scott...
Author
Publisher
Astra Young Raders, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
12-year-old Winnie feels stuck. She's alone in a new town with a mom who doesn't seem to notice how miserable Winnie's new stepbrother and stepfather make her. One night, when Winnie makes a hasty wish, she nearly gets sideswiped by an odd bird, leading her to a strange oak tree with even stranger glowing leaves. Investigating the tree, Winnie discovers a nest of golden eggs with wishes inscribed on the shells. After Winnie accidentally breaks two...
Author
Publisher
HarperAlley, Clarion Books, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When their mom remarries, Molly and her brother, Michael, try to make friends with their new stepsister, Heather. But Heather only wants to make trouble for them. She lies and tattles and misbehaves, and somehow they always get the blame. They know she's trying to drive a wedge between her father and their mother so she can have her father all to herself--and it seems to be working. Then, Heather starts playing in the graveyard behind their new house....
Publisher
Dimension Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Marissa Cortez-Wilson is happily married to reality TV star Wilbur Wilson, and is stepmother to his two children, Cecil and Rebecca, along with their newborn baby. What her family doesn't know is that Marissa is a retired secret agent, and when The Timekeeper--a dastardly villain threatening Armageddon--strikes, Marissa is called back into action. With the fate of all mankind at stake, Marissa is forced to seek the help of her stepchildren, and, with...
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Christmas is anything but ordinary when three bickering siblings from a newly blended household cannot see eye to eye. The youngest one, while completing his annual science project, accidentally calls upon the spirit of Christmas. They wake up to find themselves having switched bodies, unable to change back until they learn to spend the holidays together as a loving family.
Author
Series
Love in Lancaster County volume 1
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Dinah Lanz and Aaron Smucker have one thing in common: they always put family first. After his older brother’s wife died, Aaron accompanied Titus and his young son to Pennsylvania, hoping they could start a shed-building business and get a fresh start. Dinah spends all her time looking out for her stepsiblings and her pregnant stepmother, Loretta, who isn’t much older than she is. Dinah promised her father on his deathbed she would take care of...
8) Two tribes
Author
Publisher
Heartdrum, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Mia is still getting used to living with her mom and stepfather, and to the new role their Jewish identity plays in their home. Feeling out of place at home and at her Jewish day school, Mia finds herself thinking more and more about her Muscogee father, who lives with his new family in Oklahoma. Her mother doesn't want to talk about him, but Mia can't help but feel like she's missing a part of herself without him in her life. Soon, Mia makes a plan...
Author
Series
New directions volume 3
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Susan has been in Wyoming long enough to feel at home, but instead she finds herself still struggling to adapt to the dusty landscape, the different customs, and life so far from family. She knows she should be appreciating the big, beautiful log home that Isaac built, but sometimes even that feels like a burden-so much of it to clean, and Isaac always traipsing in with his muddy boots and clothes smelling of diesel. But those are just the surface...
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn't fit among them. For Violet Hart-whose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Street-very little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small since her mother remarried and the new baby arrived. Or Violet's group of friends, which, since they started middle school, isn't enough for Violet's best friend, Paige. Everything...
12) The limits
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
From Mo'orea, a tiny volcanic island off the coast of Tahiti, a French biologist obsessed with saving Polynesia's imperiled coral reefs sends her teenage daughter to live with her ex-husband in New York. By the time fifteen-year-old Pia arrives at her father Stephen's luxury apartment in Manhattan and meets his new, younger wife, Kate, she has been shuttled between her parents' disparate lives--her father's consuming work as a surgeon at an overwhelmed...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Liam has just one thing on his mind- making it to the ferris wheel to use his ticket. There's just time to check out the rest of the funfair, where his friends are playing games, munching popcorn, and going on rides with their families. But when Liam's ferris wheel ticket goes missing, it's a race against time for him and his friends to find it. Will they make it? A book for every family, this story gently shows children that it is wonderfully normal...
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