stepfamilies

"13-year old Summer so desperately wants to pass the audition for a prestigious ballet school, that she's literally starving herself. She's become anorexic and possibly killing herself. Furthermore, it actually is making her a worse dancer. Will Summer get the help she so urgently needs from her sisters Skye, Honey, Coco, and new stepsister Cherry, when she's in denial and doesn't realize she needs help?"--Back cover.

The mummy that Andrew creates for his fifth grade project seems to have special powers and helps him to understand his feelings about himself, his dead mother, and his stepbrother, who he calls Mr. Gifted.

A widow handbag designer with ten children and a widowed Coast Guard admiral with eight children fall in love and get married.

"Seventeen-year-old Ash has been living with her mother in her mother's boyfriend's house, along with his daughter Mimi and son Noah. When Ash's mother dies, Ash stays so she can attend a high school with a top coding program. But her stepsiblings take advantage of Ash's precarious living situation, with Mimi posting embarrassing pictures of Ash online and Noah making her do his homework. Ash's only solace is the social media app she has developed to support people who are being bullied online. Using the handle Cinders, Ash starts chatting online with a girl who calls herself Charming. They become close, without ever meeting in person. When Ash finds out that Charming is Char, an aspiring singer who goes to her school, she admires her courage in identifying herself as a lesbian and singing about it. Char helps Ash see her own strength in not letting her situation cause her to be bitter, but instead using it to reach out to help others. For the first time since her mother died, Ash feels like someone sees that she is special and is there for her"--Provided by publisher.

Twenty-one-year-old Tanner Brice stirs up a lot of old trouble when he begins to suspect his stepfather murdered his father sixteen years earlier and goes to his father's former boss for help investigating the crime.

Miki's boy troubles spill over onto the tennis court when Ginta's doubles partner is injured and his rival Yuu is the only one who can fill in, making Miki wonder which boy she should support when she likes them both.

While his human Elliot adjusts to his new home and stepfamily, Gizmo, an evil genius guinea pig, searches for a new evil lair where he can plot to take over the world, but Gizmo is constantly thwarted by Elliot's little stepsister Jasmine (who likes to play dress-up), Abuela (who may or may not like to eat cavies), and Wedgie (a Corgi superhero and Gizmo's nemesis).

Miki is jealous when Yuu becomes interested in the new boy at their school.

Eleven-year-old Georgie is still adjusting to leaving Atlanta for a small town, having a stepfather, and being unable to get close to her stepsister when her six-year-old sister, Peaches, suddenly becomes very ill.

"Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement"--Provided by publisher.