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Author
Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lady Tremaine, widowed and raising two headstrong girls alone, finds herself falling for a dashing knight from a far-off land who is looking for a stepmother for his own young daughter. But stepmothers in the Many Kingdoms never tend to fare well...and Lady Tremaine may be destined for a not-so-happily ever after" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Physical Desc
456 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Shiori, princess of Kiata, has a secret: Forbidden magic runs through her veins. On the morning of her betrothal ceremony she loses control, and it forestalls the wedding she never wanted--but it also catches the attention of Raikama, her stepmother. Using a dark magic of her own, Raikama banishes the princess, turns her brothers into cranes, and warns Shiori that for with every word that escapes her lips, one of her brothers will die. Penniless,...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Snow White is a beautiful girl who takes refuge in the forest at the home of the seven dwarfs. She is hiding from the wicked Queen, her stepmother. The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known as 'the fairest in the land, ' but Snow White's beauty surpasses her own. The dwarfs grow to love their unexpected visitor. But one day while the dwarfs are at their diamond mine, the Queen arrives at the cottage disguised as an old peddler woman and persuades...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
An innocent child taken from her parents. A girl with magical hair confined to an isolated tower. But what does Mother Gothel, Rapunzel's adoptive mother, actually know? Does she want to shield the princess from a cruel world-- or is there more to the story? -- Adapted from dust jacket.
25) The crossroads
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When eleven-year-old Zack Jennings moves to Connecticut with his father and new stepmother, they must deal with the ghosts left behind by a terrible accident, as well as another kind of ghost from Zack's past.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
GN 530L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cinderella's stepmother and two stepsisters treat her like dirt. But each night, in secret and in shadows, Cinderella trains to be a ninja! More than anything, Cinderella yearns to become the prince's personal bodyguard. But how can she meet him when her stepmother won't ever let her leave?" -- Provided by publisher.
27) The Hanging Hill
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
During rehearsals for a play based on his stepmother's bestselling children's books, eleven-year-old Zack discovers that the director is planning to raise a horde of evil specters from the dead by offering up a human sacrifice.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A reimagining of the Snow White story set in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s"--
In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty-- the opposite of the life she's left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she'd become, but the birth of Boy's...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jiselle, a young flight attendant has just settled into a fairy tale life with her new husband and stepchildren. But as a mysterious new illness spreads rapidly throughout the country, she begins to realize that her marriage, her stepchildren, and their perfect world are all in terrible danger."--
It was a fairy tale come true when Mark-- handsome pilot, widower, tragic father of three-- chose Jiselle to be his wife. But with Mark almost always...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Enjoy unforgettable characters and irreverent laughs in the Regency series that launched the career of New York Times bestselling author Katie MacAlister You think you've got troubles? As a spy for the Crown, Lord Harry Rosse faced clever and dangerous adversaries-but it's his five offspring who seem likely to send him to Bedlam. At his wits' end, he's advertised for a wife and found one, but perhaps he should have been a bit more forthcoming on certain...
36) Family of lies
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe weaves a stunning portrait of a family immersed in deceit, and the women whose happiness depends on the secrets they keep. After growing up poor in Texas, Vera Lomax used every gold-digging trick in the book to land a rich husband. Now living in the lap of luxury in San Francisco, her only job is to fawn over her much-older husband, so it's been easy for her to balance a life of shopping and affairs with...
Author
Publisher
Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"'Be kind and have faith.' Ella Troyer strives to abide by her mother's final words, although life in the small Amish town of Echo Creek isn't always easy. Her new stepmother, Linda, treats her coldly, and her two stepsisters, Drusilla and Anna, delight in gossip and laziness. After her father's death, Ella's stepsisters are free to attend youth singings while Ella stays at home to manage the household chores, rarely seeing another soul. Until one...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Now that Squishy has been living with her father in Melbourne for some time she has grown close to her "bonus" sisters, the twins Vee and Jesse, but she is still not sure about their mom, her father's new wife. Squishy is newly fixated on astronauts and space travel, and she has a new mystery to solve: who is the "spacewoman" across the street, why is she building a rocket on the roof of her apartment building, and how are they going to get through...
39) Nissa's place
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thirteen-year-old girl in Depression-era Louisiana grapples with her mother moving to Chicago, her father remarrying, and finding where she belongs.
Ever since Nissa Bergen's father Ivar remarried, Nissa has felt like a stranger in her own home, clinging to her memories of her free-spirited mother, Heirah Rae, who moved to Chicago to escape the conformity of small-town Louisiana. To make matters worse, Nissa's not ready for the physical changes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
530L
Physical Desc
102 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Daisy Meyer is angry and frustrated with her world: her German American town, New Ulm, is under surveillance, her father's newspaper was forced to shut down for criticizing the United States' entry into World War I, her beloved older sister Elsie's fiancé is deployed to France, and she deeply resents her stepmother--but worse is coming, because this is October 1918, and influenza is about to descend on her home and family, and it...