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21) Wedgie & Gizmo
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
While his human Elliot adjusts to his new home and stepfamily, Gizmo, an evil genius guinea pig, searches for a new evil lair where he can plot to take over the world, but Gizmo is constantly thwarted by Elliot's little stepsister Jasmine (who likes to play dress-up), Abuela (who may or may not like to eat cavies), and Wedgie (a Corgi superhero and Gizmo's nemesis).
22) Stranded
Author
Series
Stranded. Original series volume 1
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Jane, Buzz, Carter, and Vanessa, aged nine to thirteen, are on a sailing trip in the South Pacific intended to help them bond in their newly-blended family when a massive storm strands them on a deserted island.
23) The perfect girl
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Zoe Maisey is a seventeen-year-old musical prodigy with a genius IQ. Three years ago, she was involved in a tragic incident that left three classmates dead. She served her time, and now her mother, Maria, is resolved to keep that devastating fact tucked far away from their new beginning, hiding the past even from her new husband and demanding Zoe do the same. Tonight Zoe is giving a recital that Maria has been planning for months. It needs to be...
24) A mother's gift
Author
Description
For Leah Otto, marrying Jude Shetler is a long-held dream come true. As a young girl, she was captivated by his good looks and talent as an auctioneer. When Jude, now a widower with three children, begins to court her, Leah doesn't hesitate. Other men may not appreciate her tomboy ways, but Jude values Leah's practical nature and her skill with the animals she tends, and both enter the marriage with joy and optimism. Three months later, Leah feels...
25) Kid owner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Inheriting ownership of the Dallas Cowboys when his estranged father dies, Ryan embraces his newfound stardom until his status is threatened by his wicked stepmother, who wants her son to be the team's owner.
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Forced to accompany their parents on their honeymoon in Spain, new stepsisters Amy and Felix find the animosity between them escalating especially when Felix's boasting about family wealth to a stranger results in the kidnapping of the girls and their little brother.
27) Cinder
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Appears on list
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. Also includes a prequel story.
28) Big Sky Country
Author
Series
Formats
Description
The illegitimate son of a wealthy rancher, Sheriff Slade Barlow grew up in a trailer hitched to the Curly-Burly hair salon his mother runs. He was never acknowledged by his father .... until now. Suddenly, Slade has inherited half of Whisper Creek Ranch, one of the most prosperous in Parable, Montana. That doesn't sit well with his half brother, Hutch, who grew up with all the rights of a Carmody -- including the affections of Joslyn Kirk, homecoming...
29) Gingerbread
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After being expelled from a fancy boarding school, Cyd Charisse's problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer and is subsequently sent from San Francisco to New York City to spend time with her biological father.
Author
Formats
Description
A novel on the effect of divorce and remarriage on children. The wife, Josie, has one girl while Matthew, the husband, has three children. Matthew's children did not particularly love their mother, Nadine, but out of loyalty they feel obliged to give Josie a hard time. By the author of The Best of Friends
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 30
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Best friends Mary Anne and Dawn are ecstatic to discover that Dawn's mother and Mary Anne's father are planning to get married.
32) Survivors
Author
Series
Stranded. Original series volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Trapped for eleven days on a deserted island, Jane, Buzz, Carter and Vanessa must venture deeper into the jungles of the island, where they discover a secret and find danger at every turn.
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
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.
34) Mosquitoland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"When she learns that her mother is sick in Ohio, Mim confronts her demons on a thousand-mile odyssey from Mississippi that redefines her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane"-- Provided by publisher.
36) The children
Author
Description
Early twentieth-century American author Edith Wharton's 1928 novel about a group of seven step-siblings who strike up a relationship with a solitary bachelor on a yacht while hoping that their parents' reconciliation lasts. One of Mrs. Wharton's latest novels, this is a story of expatriate Americans in the 1920s. Its theme is the predicament of children whose rich, pleasure-mad parents progress through marriages and divorces as casually as they flit...
37) Spike it!
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Unhappy at having to share space and family with her new stepsister Michaela when her father remarries, thirteen-year-old Jamie is further dismayed when Michaela joins her volleyball team and becomes a star player.
38) Covenant child
Author
Series
Formats
Description
The press called them "Billion Dollar Babies," heirs to one of the largest fortunes in the country. But upon the deaths of their father and grandparents, the court system rips the three-year-olds from the arms of the stepmother who loves them and places them with their cruel maternal grandparents. Though Eloise and Deke Krebbs plan to win that fortune for themselves, what they get for the purpose of raising the children they squander in gambling casinos...
39) Judge's girls
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Beloved Georgia judge Joseph Donaldson was known for his unshakable fairness, his hard-won fortune--and a scandalous second marriage to his much-younger white secretary. Now he's left a will with a stunning provision. In order to collect their inheritance, his lawyer daughter Maya, her stepmother Jeanie, and Jeanie's teen daughter, Ryder, must live together at the family lake house. Maya and Jeanie don't exactly get along, but they reluctantly agree...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 31
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Now that Dawn and Mary Anne are friends and sisters, their relationship is not everything they dreamed it would be.