stepmothers

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.

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.

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.

"At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another.

Mel, seventeen, has always wondered about her father, but is surprised to learn he is a member of the Evonian nobility and that he wants her to visit him and his family.

Cinderella's wicked stepmother wants to make amends for her past by helping people, but she has trouble finding the perfect place--until she opens the Fairy Tale Clinic for Recovering Villains.

"Ella's childhood is a happy one: she has loving parents, plenty of fields and meadows to explore, and kind animal friends to play with. A sweet child, Ella warms the hearts of all who meet her. And her home is a wonderful place, the perfect little kingdom for a joyful family. But when tragedy strikes, Ella's happy home turns into one filled with sadness and cruelty. Will Ella be able to hold onto her kindness and courage through it all?"--Back cover.

Sonia, who plans to be a veterinarian, finds an ally in her stepmother when her father refuses to let her keep a stray dog for her own.

Marty writes in her diary about her stepmother and her family life after a divorce.

Samantha, a high schooler whose life mirrors Cinderella's, defies her stepmother to attend the Halloween costume ball where she is supposed to finally learn the identity of her online love, Nomad, but she is shocked to find he is the most popular boy in school, and before she can unmask herself, she is forced to flee, leaving her cell phone behind.