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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....
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
202 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Timberline family makes a weekend getaway for a visit to a gold exhibit but it leads to a search for a stolen gold nugget and danger for the entire family.
Author
Series
Holly's heart volume 6
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
149 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Holly struggles with jealousy when her best friend invites an Austrian exchange student to stay for six weeks.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Hyperion paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The intertwined lives of the prominent Averley family and the servants of Somerton Court are forever changed when an old secret comes to light.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The acclaimed, bestselling author--winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize--tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly--thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, must move from Chicago to "The Valley," with a new stepfamily but no new friends until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's treacherous social waters.
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 6
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
124 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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.
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
267 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Stella North (Virgo) is shaken up by her father's surprise engagement; she takes fate into her own hands with astrology, tarot, and crystals, and even Magic 8 balls.
10) Love is a gift
Author
Series
Heartland volume 15
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
173 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a visit to their father's ranch in Australia, Lou has no difficulty accepting her father's new wife, Helena, while Amy seeks refuge in the stables and in working with Spirit, the reluctant grey gelding trained by Helena.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the last months of high school, charismatic eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the present, staying drunk or high most of the time, but that could change when starts working to boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee.
12) Cinder
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle.
13) No one is alone
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
420 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Michaela's mom dies and she has to move in with her dad, she discovers he's been married with kids all this time and she's the product of an affair"--
14) Me and Ms. Too
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When her Dad marries Ms. Too, who is no longer her favorite librarian, Molly has a hard time adjusting until she and Ms. Too learn that change isn't always scary--it may be the best thing of all.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A modern-day girl finds herself at the start of the twentieth century, and as she and Samantha adjust to their respective new stepfamilies, the reader is invited to choose how Samantha continues her adventure.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Believing her new home to actually be alive, especially when her brother almost dies, Marigold and her new blended family won't be safe until she brings the truth to light once and for all.
The phantoms of her old life keep haunting Marigold, but a move with her newly blended family from their California beach town to the Midwestern city of Cedarville might be the fresh start she needs. Her mom has accepted a new job with the Sterling Foundation...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Courtney Moore is the best gamer at the arcade. But she can't understand why there aren't more girl characters. When Courtney imagines her own video game, the hero is a girl who knows how to handle any situation. If only I was like that in real life, Courtney wishes. Her dad's moving for a job, so Courtney won't be living with him on the weekends anymore. That's causing a big problem with her stepsister, who doesn't like sharing a room with Courtney...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
At her stepdaughter's wedding day to her pandemic boyfriend--the last gathering at the family's beach house in Cape Cod--Sarah is faced with lovers being revealed as their true selves, misunderstandings, and secrets, ensuring that nothing will ever be the same.
When her stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. Headstrong Ruby has already set a date (just three months away!) and spoken to her beloved...
19) Stepping stones
Author
Series
Publisher
RH Graphic
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Jen moves out to the country and has to put up with her mom and her mom's new boyfriend, as well as his kids. Suddenly part of a larger family in a new place, Jen isn't sure there is a place for her in this different world."--