stepfamilies

Twelve-year-old Frankie Joe Huckaby, forced to live with the father he never knew, a stepmother, and four half-brothers in Illinois, starts a delivery service to finance his escape back to his mother in Texas, not realizing he is making a better life for himself than he ever had with her.

Grace is invited for a visit with her father and his new family in Africa.

High-schooler Willa has just moved to California with her mother and film director stepfather, and she will be attending a private school--but her real problem is that she keeps seeing things that are not really there, like a dead body in the swimming pool, and her visions may be connected to a serial killer that is stalking young girls in Hollywood.

Other than their first names, Naomi Marie and Naomi Edith are sure they have nothing in common, and they wouldn't mind keeping it that way. Naomi Marie's father lives a few blocks away, and Naomi Edith wonders how she's supposed to get through each day a whole country apart from her mother. When Naomi Marie's mom and Naomi Edith's dad get serious about dating, each girl tries to cling to the life she knows and loves.

Stepsiblings Eden Munro and Tyler Bruce have desperately tried to ignore their love for each other for the sake of their family, but they cannot seem to stay apart for long, especially once Tyler invites Eden to spend the summer with him in New York.

Fizzy struggles to find her place in her blended family after her parents' divorce, hoping her entry in the Southern Living Cook-Off will show them she is more than just a leftover kid.

"When Vanessa, Carter, Jane, and Buzz landed on Shadow Island, they never could have predicted what was waiting for them. Now the competition known as 'Raku Nau' has ended, but not in the way they'd planned. The clock is ticking. Any hope of getting back to the lives they once knew lies in the balance. They have only one night to make things right, or they'll be forced to call Shadow Island home...for good. Because at sunrise, it all comes to an end. On way or another"--Back cover.

Xavier is unhappy when his mother remarries and he suddenly has a new stepbrother, as well as a stepfather, in his home.

Retells the story of Cinderella from her stepsister's point of view.

Trapped for eleven days on a deserted island, Jane, Buzz, Carter and Vanessa must venture deeper into the jungles of the island, where they discover a secret and find danger at every turn.