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Author
Series
Indie Kidd volume 1
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When Miss Levy asks the students to list their three top talents, ten-year-old Indie struggles to name just one.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Evie feels unsettled and sad after her parents divorce, her father remarries and takes the family dog, and his new wife becomes pregnant, but a cooking class and helping the elderly lady next door with her cat give Evie a way to cope with the changes in her life. Includes recipes.
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 6
Pub. Date
[2012]
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.
5) Wintergirls
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
Author
Series
Indie Kidd volume 2
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
While trying to find a best friend for her socially challenged stepbrother, ten-year-old Indie Kidd neglects her own best friends, Soph and Fee.
8) Out of step
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
After his father remarries, twelve-year-old Jeremy begins to feel that there is no place for him in a family which now includes a stepsister his age who is a superb athlete.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.
11) Sofia the first
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Description
Meet Sofia, a little girl who lives a rather ordinary life. But everything changes when her mother, Miranda, marries the king. Overnight, Sofia becomes a princess, moves into the castle, gains a step-brother, a step-sister... and the ability to talk to her new animal friends thanks to a magical amulet! Now, life is anything but ordinary for Sofia the First!
Author
Series
Poison apple books volume 7
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Hannah, already unhappy to be moving in with her dad and his new family, including her stepsister Madison, a mean girl, is further upset by rumors of a ghost cat said to haunt a neighboring cemetery and the mysterious scratching at her door at night.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Nights have always been Auden’s time, her chance to escape everything that’s going on around her. Then she meets Eli, a fellow insomniac, and he becomes her nocturnal tour guide. Now, with an endless supply of summer nights between them, almost anything can happen.
Author
Series
At Somerton volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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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"--
16) Survivors
Author
Series
Stranded. Original series volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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
[2013]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In this humorous story about blended families, just as the little bandits are getting used to traveling between the homes of their separated parents, they find that a princess and her royal children are now living at their father's house. When they find out the little royals are there to stay, they concoct a plan to get rid of the unwelcome additions to the household.
18) Shipwreck island
Author
Series
Shipwreck Island volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
Sarah's dad and stepmom then decide to take the whole family on a special vacation in order to break the ice and have everyone get to know one another. They'll fly to Tahiti, charter a boat, and go sailing for a few days. It'll be an adventure, right? Wrong. Dead wrong.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"What if you, as a girl trying to adjust to her new stepfamily, suddenly found yourself in Samantha's world at the start of the 20th century? Join Samantha on exciting adventures. Your journey back in time can take whatever twists and turns you choose, as you select from a variety of options in this multiple-ending story"--
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