stepfamilies

Holly, accompanied by her best friend Andie, visits her father in California where she is torn between covering for Andie's misbehavior and telling the truth.

Kate plans a birthday party for her stepbrother Anders and gets involved in the mysterious disappearance of items from the Erickson household.

When Giselle's nine-year-old son Teddy accidentally shoots and kills his baby sister, Giselle must learn to forgive herself and her son and move on with her life.

In this humorous story about blended families, just as the little bandits are getting used to traveling between the homes of their separated parents, they find that a princess and her royal children are now living at their father's house. When they find out the little royals are there to stay, they concoct a plan to get rid of the unwelcome additions to the household.

Life as a preteen (a.k.a. "tween") can be challenging. Life as a stepkid can be equally tough. Put them together, and it can be like climbing Mount Everest . . . daily. Step-tweens are not only caught between childhood and teenhood they re also often caught between two parents, two families, and two homes. This book lets them know they are not alone, helps them identify and express their feelings, and teaches them how to effectively communicate their wants and needs. The engaging format includes lively illustrations, quizzes, advice from other stepkids, "survival tools" to use when the going gets rough, and suggestions for what to do when nothing else seems to be working. With The Step-Tween Survival Guide, tweens will gain the skills and inspiration to survive and thrive in a stepfamily.

16-year-old Kim/Kimi is loved by her mother, stepfather and half-brother but feels that she doesn't quite belong and must find out more about her dead Japanese-American father.

Loosely based on "Cinderella," this story is set in Alaska, the fairy godmother is an eagle, and the hero, the son of a cannery owner, finds his true love through her Sitka slipper, a heavy rubber boot she left at the Silver Salmon Festival.

A fairy godmother-in-training is sent to help angry seventeen-year-old Tansy, who reluctantly is staying with her father and his new wife while her mother and sister are travelling, but the unfortunate result of this intended help is chaos and confusion.

"After thwarting the ghost cell's chemical attack in Chicago, Q and his stepsister Angela arrive in San Francisco to continue their parents' concert tour. They find themselves helping Boone and the S.O.S. team in the final showdown with the ghost cell and its leader, Number One"--Provided by publisher.