stepfamilies

Xavier is unhappy when his mother remarries and he suddenly has a new stepbrother, as well as a stepfather, in his home.

Answers letters from girls dealing with various aspects of divorce, remarriage, and stepfamilies. Includes tips, quizzes, and advice.

James Hallowell and the new kids at school all seem to share an unusual alliance: they already know each other, remain in school until after dark, and share a deep and mysterious kind of secret.

After twelve-year-old Violet's father divorces her mother, Violet devises ways to snag the perfect man, George Clooney, to be her mother's new husband.

After fifteen-year-old Ginger runs into a photographer in the park, Ginger begins to think the man--who has taken a mysteriously keen interest in her younger stepsister--is her biological father, who walked out on Ginger when she was three.

After being expelled from yet another school in London, twelve-year-old Scarlett is sent by her exasperated mother to live with her father, stepmother, and stepsister in Ireland, where, with the help of a mysterious boy, she eventually overcomes her anger and resentment and feels part of a family again.

Nick tries to maintain his sense of integrity as he works to succeed on the school basketball team, adjust to his new stepmother and little "dorky" stepbrother, and deal with peer pressure from his friends.

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.

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.