stepfamilies

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Cenicienta

la novela gr?fica
2010
A graphic novel retelling of the classic fairytale about a poor young girl, her wicked step-mother and step-sisters, and her unforgettable trip to the ball.

Stranded

Stranded #1
2013
Jane, Buzz, Carter, and Vanessa, aged nine to thirteen, are on a sailing trip in the South Pacific intended to help them bond in their newly-blended family when a massive storm strands them on a deserted island.

Vincent Shadow, toy inventor

2011
Eleven-year-old Vincent Shadow, inspired by the ideas of the inventor Nikola Tesla, has always kept his many unusual toy inventions secret from his family until he enters a contest whose prize is to spend a summer working with the eccentric Howard G. Whizz of Whizzer Toys.

The spectacular now

2009
In the last months of high school, charismatic eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the present, staying drunk or high most of the time, but that could change when he starts working to boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee.

Gone and back again

2007
Eleven-year-old Caley, shifted from home to home by his divorced parents, finally settles in Missouri with his depressed, neglectful mother and cruel stepfather,where he struggles to deal with the pain and misery of his life while his own mental state continues to deteriorate.

Blood wounds

2012
Willa seems to have a perfect life as a member of a loving blended family until the estranged father she barely remembers murders his wife and children, then heads toward Willa and her mother.

The Holly sisters on their own

1998
While getting to know her half-sister who comes to spend the summer, twelve-year-old Charmaine gradually discovers that she and Cissa have a lot to learn from each other.

How to build a house

2009
Seventeen-year-old Harper Evans hopes to escape the effects of her father's divorce on her family and friendships by volunteering her summer to build a house in a small Tennessee town devastated by a tornado.

Thunderwith

1991
After she moves to the Australian outback following her mother's death, fifteen-year-old Laura's friendship with a strange and beautiful dog helps her adjust to a new life with an unfamiliar father and unfriendly stepfamily.

Ash

2010
A variation on the Cinderella story in which a girl named Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress, whom she loves.

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