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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
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...
22) Trial by fire
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Series
Stranded. Original series volume 2
Language
English
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"Being shipwrecked on a jungle island in the middle of the South Pacific was bad enough. But now that Carter, Vanessa, Buzz and Jane have lost their boat--and almost everything on board--to another violent storm, it's like starting over. That means finding food and shelter, making fire for the first time, dealing with the wild boars that roam the island--and of course, figuring out how to get along (and not kill each other in the process)"--Page 4...
24) The Perfect Girl
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Language
English
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Zoe Maisey, a seventeen-year-old musical prodigy with a genius IQ, is starting her life over after a tragic incident three years ago which left three of her classmates dead. Her mother, Maria, has resolved to keep that information tucked far away, hiding the past even from her new husband and demanding that Zoe do the same. Tonight Zoe is giving a recital that Maria has been planning for months. It needs to be the performance of Zoe's life. But instead,...
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Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 31
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Dawn and Mary Anne are good friends, but when they become stepsisters, their relationship undergoes some changes.
26) Season of change
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Series
Sisters in all seasons volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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When Stephanie's father and Diana's mother go on a marriage retreat to deal with some big problems, Stephanie goes to cheerleading camp and Diana stays with her father, but when everyone returns, things seem worse than ever.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 24
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Kristy and the Baby-sitters Club plan a huge outing as a Mother's Day surprise for their clients, while Kristy's mother and stepfather have a surprise of their own in store for their family.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, sixteen-year-old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father's new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest.
29) Heart bones
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Language
English
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"Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim's parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself. With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah...
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Language
English
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"I've got the love to give. Now how can I get my stepchild to accept it?" Does that question sound familiar? Whether you are presently a stepparent, a dating single parent, or in the courtship stage before marriage, the challenge of blending families is one of the most difficulty you will ever face. Winning the Heart of Your Stepchild is a hands-on guidebook for today's men and women who face the special challenge of blending families. Because children...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
As eleven-year-old Margaret struggles to find a way of coping with the hassles of a new stepfamily, she learns that her Gran is facing similar concerns after moving to a retirement community and becoming a widow.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
In this companion to Arree Chung's stand-out picture book Mixed: A Colorful Story, the colors must re-evaluate what it means to be a family. In Mixed City, when colors care for each other, they decide to mix. They create families that come in every combination of colors, shapes, and sizes. But sometimes those sizes, shapes, and colors can change. And change isn't always easy. It might be hard to get used to. It might make some colors feel worried,...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Description
When Coast Guard commander Frank Beardsley bumps into his old high school flame Helen North, sparks fly again, and the two quickly marry. Complications arrive when it comes time to merge their two families. Frank has 8 kids and Helen has 10 kids. With Frank looking to keep tight military control over the brood, and Helen preferring her loving, hippy-like ways of encouragement, the two struggle to maintain a family and home where the kids don't like...
34) Missing pieces
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Red Rock suffers a spate of "mailbox baseball" vandalism and twins Bryce and Ashley become witnesses.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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
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Language
English
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Drama. Jerks. Another new school. Those are three things Kassidy Perry vows to avoid her senior year of high school. Unfortunately, it looks like the Universe didn't get the memo. When her mom marries the football coach from a rival high school, Kassidy's forced to move (again), enroll in a new school (again) and adapt to life with three stepbrothers, including the school's star quarterback who's barely said two words to her. And what's up with her...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Maren has been very close to her mother, so she is not happy when she discovers that she will soon have a new stepfather, and when she meets his twin children she is not sure that even her three friends, Delaney, Ashley, and Willow, can pull her through--especially after the twins shave Ashley's dog Coco during a particularly disastrous sleepover.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Siblings Billa and Ed share their beautiful, grand old childhood home in rural Cornwall and seem as contented as they can be. But when postcards start arriving from a sinister figure they thought belonged well and truly in their pasts, old memories are stirred"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
High-schooler Willa has just moved to California with her mother and film director stepfather, and she will be attending a private school, but her real problem is that she keeps seeing things that are not really there, like a dead body in the swimming pool, and her visions may be connected to a serial killer that is stalking young girls in Hollywood.
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