stepmothers

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stepmothers

Sarah, plain and tall

2005
When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.

Bluecrowne

In 1810, Lucy Bluecrowne, twelve, is bored living ashore with her stepmother and half brother until two nefarious strangers identify her little brother as the pyrotechnical prodigy they need for their evil plan.

Nelly in the wilderness

2002
In the Indiana wilderness in 1821, twelve-year-old Nelly Vandorn and her older brother hold fast to their rough frontier ways when their father brings home a fancy new city wife not long after burying their mother.

Snow White in New York

1986
When Snow White's father marries the Queen of the Underworld, she plots to get rid of Snow White.

Before midnight

a retelling of "Cinderella"
A retelling of the tale about a girl whose father remarries and the effects that her stepmother has on the family.
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Sarah, plain and tall

When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.
Cover image of Sarah, plain and tall

Blood magic

In Yaleylah, Missouri, teens Silla and Nick, drawn together by loss and a shared family history of blood magic practitioners, are plunged into a world of dark magic as they try to unravel the mystery of Silla's parents' apparent murder-suicide.
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I so don't do spooky

Thirteen-year-old Sherry helps her mother, a ghost, to investigate who is stalking Sherry's stepmother, but Sherry is also very busy with school and friends, while her mother is also striving for a gold medal in the Ghostlympics.

Snow

A "Snow White" retelling in which Jessica, a duchess, runs away from her new stepmother's murderous jealousy, is welcomed into the fold of a group of outcasts in London, and must decide whether to trust and forgive when her stepmother shows up, apparently repentant.

Hottie

When a power surge during experimental plastic surgery turns fourteen-year-old Alison into a human flamethrower, she drops from popular Beverly Hills princess to social outcast, but with the help of a comic-loving "geek, " she becomes a real-life superhero.

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