stepmothers

African-American Boy Novak marries into a family of light-skinned African Americans passing for white, raising issues of racism and identity for herself, her daughter, and step-daughter.

Paige Austin, painfully aware that she will never have children, is excited when her husband's teenage son Malachi comes to live with them, but although Paige and Mal bond quite quickly, the troubled boy needs more attention than she alone is able to give--a fact everyone learns when it is almost too late.

The classic fairy tale retold in a Native American setting in which White Snow flees from her wicked step-mother, Sly Fox, and stays with seven short turquoise miners.

When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.

In this graphic novel, the evil Stepmother comes into possession of the Fairy Godmother's magic wand and reverses time in order to replace Cinderella with Anastasia. With the Prince under a spell, it's up to Cinderella and her animal friends to stop the Prince before he marries Anastasia.

After years of being shuffled from town to town and back and forth between her divorced parents, twelve-year-old Leah, now living permanently with her father and stepmother, finds it difficult to adjust to her new situation and the circumstances that made it possible.

Fourteen-year-old Amanda's comfortable practice of spending weekends with her divorced father is disrupted when he announces plans to remarry, providing her with a stepmother and a new sister her own age.

Nine-year-old Phillip has always lived with his grandmother, but when his widowed father remarries he finds that he must suddenly adjust to a new way of life with his father and stepmother.

Happy living with her Texas grandmother and looking forward to celebrating a family Christmas, thirteen-year-old Maggie is devasted when she is summoned by her movie-director father to spend Christmas with him and her very young stepmother in California.

"When Rose's mother dies, her only comfort is the exquisite rose garden her mother left behind. The purple blossoms serve as an assurance of her mother's love. But Rose is dealt a second blow when her father dies and his greedy widow, Ombrine, and her daughter, Desiree, move in and take over the manor in true Cinderella fashion."--back cover.