stepchildren

Four stepsiblings travel through time and space to help a scatterbrained phoenix gather the materials she needs to hatch her egg.

Nine-year-old Josh finds it impossible to get along with his rambunctious eight-year-old stepbrother Jake, until an impending change in their family unites them on a common front.

Discusses the personal problems and social pressures experienced in stepfamilies and provides methods of coping with these pressures.

When her mother remarries, eight-year-old Tracy has to get used to a new school and a new obnoxious stepbrother.

Discusses the changes involved in becoming part of a stepfamily and ways to deal with the new situation.

Billy, the former champion slugger for his third grade baseball team, is bothered by his very young stepsister's presence at games and feels that she is jinxing him into a batting slump.

Jake Raven, expecting to dislike her new stepsister and stepbrother, ends up helping them protect an alien from another dimension as he flees from mysterious pursuers with the ability to alter time.

Explains the complex emotions and relationships involved in the remarriage of a parent and examines relationships with stepparents and stepsiblings.

Four new stepsiblings move from London to an out-of-the-way English village, where they discover a book--inhabited by a grouchy bookworm--that promises to make the reader a wish-granting genie.