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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers- Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen's boss, as a US marshal...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ann Patchett, the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go"--
6) The island
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they’re deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A reimagining of the classic fairy tale, presented from the stepmother's perspective, traces her escape from a life of harsh servitude before single motherhood forces her to take a job as a nursemaid to an otherworldly infant, who eventually becomes her stepdaughter.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the lighthouse sporting a huge wreath to the Christmas Stroll along its quaint streets, holidays on Nantucket are always magical. However, while the town might be aglow like a scene from Dickens tale, unfortunately for newly married island newcomer Nicole Somerset, Christmas means a dreaded visit from her step-daughter. Headstrong Kennedy brings with her a family of her own--husband Archer and adorable 3 year old son, Maddox--but Kennedy's yet...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
214 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When one best friend moves away, can a new one move in? Carolyn Mackler writes a funny, smart story about finding out who your best friends are, in good times and bad.
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Kansas farmer Jacob Witting advertises for a 'kind woman' to take care of his two motherless children, Sara travels from Maine to the prairie to start a new life, but Sarah has to bring trust and love back into the lives of Jacob and the children.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning novelist Idra Novey comes a "deft and surprising novel" with two unforgettable female voices. (Rumaan Alam) Set in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania, Take What You Need follows the estrangement and reconciliation of stepmother and daughter, Jean and Leah. Leah always felt her path diverged from Jean's and left her hometown without looking back, making a life for herself in the city as a young mother and academic. Now that...
12) Chime
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
361 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about.
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
1 vol. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of Cinderella's timeless tale. With glass slippers and a fairy godmother, friendly mice and wicked stepsisters, this retelling of the classic animated film will delight readers.
15) Cold Hearted
Author
Series
Villains volume 8
Publisher
Disney Hyperion, an imprint of Buena Vista Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First Hardcover Edition ;
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
294 pages : 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's a familiar tale: A kind and beautiful young girl, reeling from loss. A doting father, frantic to bring a mother's love back into his daughter's life. And the selfish, cruel woman who insinuates herself into a family--a woman so unfeeling, so cold hearted, that when her new husband dies, she makes the girl a servant in her own home.
But who is that evil stepmother, that icy lady of the house? How did she become so closed off that, in the face...
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
June is physically and emotionally abused by her stepmother, and the only person June feels safe telling is her friend Blister, who helps her believe she can escape her nightmare situation, but when a shocking tragedy occurs June finds herself trapped, potentially forever.
17) Skylark
Author
Language
English
Description
When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
Author
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
[2010], c2009
Edition
1st Yearling ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sherry helps her mother, a ghost, to investigate who is stalking Sherry's stepmother, but Sherry is also very busy with school and friends, while her mother is also striving for a gold medal in the Ghostlympics.
Author
Publisher
Five Spot
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
410 p. : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eliot Gordon would do anything for her family. A 38-year-old working mother, she lives an ordinary but fulfilling life in suburban Atlanta with her partner, Grant Delaney, and their three daughters. The two older girls are actually Eliot's stepdaughters, a distinction she is reluctant to make as she valiantly attempts to maintain a safe, happy household . . .Then Finn Montgomery, Eliot's long-lost first love, appears, triggering a shocking chain of...