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61) Alice on her way
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Alice is adjusting to her new stepmother, her brother's new apartment, her new boyfriend, and getting a driver's license.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of two women--told over 150 years apart--tell a powerful and moving story about what it means to be a family, second chances, and the lengths we go to for those we love. England, 1868: Orphaned and penniless, 18-year-old Sarah is left the sole guardian of her beloved little sister Lucy - who she's vowed to protect at all costs. With nowhere left to turn, she is forced to accept mysterious widower James Mills' proposal of marriage. She believes...
64) Rosie girl
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Following the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Rosie Velvitt plans to escape a physically and emotionally threatening home life with her stepmother and her boyfriend by earning cash by arranging tricks for her best friend Mary to finance Rosie's search for the birth mother she believed was dead.
65) Bound
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well.
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
282 pages : chilefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of a beleaguered young noblewoman raising her stepchildren on her own...until she dies and wakes up in the past with the chance to remake her life! The marchioness Shuri Von Neuschwanstein was just a teenager when her husband died, leaving her to manage his lands and raise his children--even though she was young enough to be their sibling. Despite her dedication to her duties, other nobles conspired against her, and her stepchildren...
Author
Series
Nightmares! volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Charlie and his friends must find out why their neighboring town has become overrun with sleepwalkers before what's going around reaches them and it's too late" --
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
xiii, 188 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
For young Kay, growing up in middle class America during World War II is a confusing and sometimes painful experience. Her stepmother, Amazing Grace, is a selfish woman who takes her unhappiness out on those around her. And for a little girl so concerned with pleasing others and doing the honorable thing, life with Amazing Grace is nearly unbearable. But Kay is also a believer. She's determined to "keep smiling through," as the song says, knowing...
69) The stepmother
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
71) Court of swans
Author
Series
Dericott tales volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In medieval England, after her seven brothers are falsely accused of murder and treason, eighteen-year-old Delia flees their cruel stepmother and becomes a seamstress at Westminster Palace, hoping to gain their release, with Sir Geoffrey's assistance.
72) Lies like poison
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Poppy, Lily, and Belladonna would do anything to protect their best friend, Raven. When they discovered he was suffering abuse at the hands of his stepmother, they came up with a lethal plan: petals of poppy, belladonna, and lily in her evening tea so she'd never be able to hurt Raven again. But someone got cold feet, and the group fell apart. Three years later, on the eve of Raven's seventeenth birthday, his stepmother turns up dead. When belladonna...
73) A formal feeling
Author
Pub. Date
1982
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
162 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Derek Fitzpatrick is kicked out of boarding school and must move with his stepmother to her childhood home in Illinois, where he meets Ashtyn Parker, who may be able to achieve her dream with Derek's help.
76) Days of the dead
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Glorieta Magdalena Davis Espinosa is happy that Papi married Alice. She's happy that he can smile again after years of mourning Mamá. But the urn containing Mamá's ashes disappeared into a drawer the day Alice moved in. If everything about Glorieta's life is going to change, then she wants one thing to go her way: She wants to hear stories about her mamá when the family gathers on the last night of los Días de los Muertos. And that can only happen...
77) If you need me
Author
Pub. Date
1988
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
155 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
132 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Draculaura brings her ghoulfriends on a special trip to Transylvania for her dad's wedding! Dracula is getting a new wife--and Draculaura is getting a new stepmomster!" --
79) The it girl
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this hilarious debut novel, painfully shy Anna is thrust into the spotlightand onto the cover of every tabloidwhen her father marries one of the worlds most famous actresses" --