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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
Pub. Date
[2016]
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.
5) 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.
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
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
Series
At Somerton volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Appears on list
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"--
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.
12) 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
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 24
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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.
14) Mousenet
Author
Series
Mousenet volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Sent to live with her chef father and his wife in Oregon after having stayed with her inventor uncle and scientist mother in Cincinnati, ten-year-old misfit Megan is lonely until she starts working with some computer-savvy mice to try to save Mouse Nation--and the planet.
15) The Windy City
Author
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
"When Quest (Q) and his stepsister Angela head to Chicago for their parents' concert, they uncover another plot by the terrorist group Ghost Cell in the Windy City"--
17) Kitty Hawk
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"The president's daughter has been kidnapped by the elusive and lethal Ghost Cell. Quest (Q) and Angela are in hot pursuit with vicious winds and blinding rain thwarting them at every turn. It's a desperate high stakes chase"--
Author
Series
At Somerton volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In the second book in the At Somerton series, Rose grows into her new titled position in the Averley family, while Ada must decide between saving her family or betraying her heart"--
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