stepfamilies

Gerald, a teenager who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, must face the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved.

Fifteen-year-old Georgia, who loves horses as much as she hates her bullying stepbrother, buys a figurine of a winged horse and finds it has magical powers that transport her from present-day London to the sixteenth-century world of Talia where, in the city of Remora, similar to Sienna, Italy, she finds danger and intrigue as well as friendship and a chance to perfect her riding skills.

Tess, a violin prodigy who has been playing since age three, throws away all her training and talent to start a new life with her father in Montana, where she realizes having a normal life isn't always so normal.

Jes feels her normal life slipping away when her best friend, Dell, falls in love with a jerk, her mother announces plans to remarry, and her soon-to-be stepsister comes to stay for the month before the wedding.

Fourteen-year-old Ashley has her heart set on spending New Year's Eve 1999 at an exclusive country club party with an almost boyfriend, but her plan is endangered by her stepmother and two bratty stepsisters.

Emily finds it is impossible to like her new stepsister. Before long Emily is living in total fear of her. Then Emily learns that her stepsister wrote in her diary that she murdered someone!.

Young Ben finds that he is happy in the stable life provided by his stepfather despite his uncertain relationship with his moody and troubled stepbrother and his mother's growing restlessness in her new marriage.

Three stepsiblings in a blended family discuss their experiences and those of friends with divorce and remarriage.

Having agreed to get math tutoring and to practice writing over the summer to avoid flunking fifth grade, Tank learns some important lessons about both family and fighting while writing a boy's guide to understanding girls.

Four youngsters, ages nine to fifteen, narrate one side of the story of their newly blended family's adjustment, interwoven with grief and loss.