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1) 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.
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.
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
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...
9) 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
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) Shipwreck Island
Author
Series
(Stephanie A.),Shipwreck Island volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Sarah's dad and stepmom then decide to take the whole family on a special vacation in order to break the ice and have everyone get to know one another. They'll fly to Fiji, charter a boat, and go sailing for a few days. It'll be an adventure, right? Wrong. Dead wrong.
13) The ring bearer
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jackson's mama is getting married, and he has an important job to do!--
14) No one is alone
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Michaela is a junior in high school, living with her single mom. Her dad lives a few towns away and she only sees him on holidays and birthdays. They barely know each other, but Michaela is so close with her mom that she's never minded. That is, until her mom dies suddenly, and Michaela has to move in with her dad...who reveals he's been married with kids all this time and she's the product of an affair. Before she can even grieve for her mother,...
15) Table for five
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the divorced parents of three troubled children die in a tragic accident, their honorary Aunt Lily wants to help. But when their estranged Uncle Sean becomes legal guardian, this confirmed bachelor spurns the school teacher's assistance. Soon, however, exasperation forces Sean into an improbable summer alliance with standoffish Lily. As the five travel from town to town in a crowded RV, he revives his golf-pro career while she nurtures the kids....
16) Missing child
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Caitlin Eckhart finds her past coming back to haunt her when her six-year-old stepson is kidnapped from school, jeopardizing her relationship with her husband and everything she loves.
17) 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....
18) Moon over Edisto
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...
19) 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.
20) 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.
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