stepfathers

Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.

When her mother remarries, an eleven-year-old learns that she can love her stepfather and her real father at the same time.

Josh, who has just moved to Vermont with his mother, stepfather, and new baby brother, must deal with the bullying of a neighbor boy and discovers that his dog, whom he hears talking with other dogs, is facing a bully of its own.

Lex's involvement with a family of swans headed by a crazed cob helps him work out the emotional problems caused by his father's suicide.

Charli's impulsive uncle, Will Crandall, decides to buy the town's abandoned, possibly haunted castle and fix it up as a bed-and-breakfast, but Charli and Sophia, a clairvoyant orphan who has come to stay with the Crandall family, know his plan is somehow dangerous.

An 11-year-old deaf girl and a 13-year-old boy with family problems seek refuge at a swing which has come to have a special meaning for each of them.

A girl discovers that it takes time for her to adjust to her new stepfather and that he must also learn to adjust to her.

In "Wild Roses," Cassie must keep her relationship with a young musician private from her genius yet unstable stepfather; and in "The Nature of Jade," Jade's boyfriend helps her with her panic disorder until she learns he's hiding a terrible secret.

While visiting his mother and new stepfather whom he hates, an English teenager is terrorized by three scarecrows embodying people who met violent death and who silently threaten the entire family.

In 1944, a thirteen-year-old girl grapples with the discovery that "Pa" isn't her biological father, experiences her first romance, and faces hardships dealt to friends in Brooklyn's Norwegian community.