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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.
Pub. Date
[2006]
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...
Author
Series
Magic animal rescue volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Maggie finds it harder each day to get along with her stepmother and stepsiblings, but a talking fish promises to grant a wish if she will free him.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Frankie Joe Huckaby, forced to live with the father he never knew, a stepmother, and four half-brothers in Illinois, starts a delivery service to finance his escape back to his mother in Texas, not realizing he is making a better life for himself than he ever had with her.
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
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"12-year-old Winnie feels stuck. She's alone in a new town with a mom who doesn't seem to notice how miserable Winnie's new stepbrother and stepfather make her. One night, when Winnie makes a hasty wish, she nearly gets sideswiped by an odd bird, leading her to a strange oak tree with even stranger glowing leaves. Investigating the tree, Winnie discovers a nest of golden eggs with wishes inscribed on the shells. After Winnie accidentally breaks two...
10) Control freaks
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Publisher Annotation: What if Louis Sachar’s Wayside School were a little less wacky - but just as funny - and centered on a young Black boy who IS going to be the great inventor of all time, and set in the top STEM middle school in the country, oh and it was written by someone who worked for years in independent schools, and it also tackles what it’s like to live in a blended family and to stand up to a parent who’s not being so great and to...
11) Karen's witch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
While visiting her father, stepmother and their children, Karen spies on the lady next door because she thinks Mrs. Porter is a witch.
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
It's going to be a great weekend! Karen has new roller skates and is a very good skater. She's looking forward to trying some new tricks. But, oh no! Karen falls down and has to go to the hospital. Her wrist is broken! Karen is determined to get everyone she knows -- plus someone famous -- to sign her cast. It isn't going to be easy, but she won't give up until the job is done.
15) Boundless Grace
Author
Series
Amazing Grace (Picture books) volume 2
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Grace is invited for a visit with her father and his new family in Africa.
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.
17) Better together!
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
During a storm, a squirrel family and a chipmunk family seek shelter in the same tree hollow and, despite their differences, become friends, and more.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Maddy Rose lives in two worlds. A hundred years apart. In the same strange house built as an octagon. When a mysterious black cat leads her into its unknown attic, she meets Clare and his very sick sister Eva. Together Maddy and Clare jump into a money-making scheme in his uncle's dangerous soap factory to buy a cure for Eva. But an unexpected tragedy befalls them. And then Maddy is pulled back into her own time to confront the premature birth of...
20) Trapped
Author
Series
Shipwreck Island volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"It's up to Sarah Robinson to save her shipwrecked family from a time-traveling "curator" of souls and a treasure-hunting criminal in Book 3 of the Shipwreck Island series"--
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