stepfathers

Suffering his stepfather's physical and emotional abuse, ninth-grader Oz is sent to the Briarwood School where his mistreatment continues at the hands of abusive and criminal school officials.

Athletically talented Matt finds it difficult to accept his new klutzy stepfather.

After the accident that killed Luke's mother, he begins to get messages from the bodies in the funeral home where he lives with his stepfather, who is acting even stranger than usual, and in trying to solve his mother's death, he uncovers a horrifying secret.

After years of sexual abuse by her stepfather, fifteen-year-old Ashley Asher starts a better life with her father and stepmother in Patience, Texas, but despite psychotherapy and new friends, she still suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Molly, who lives in Los Angeles, and Charlie, who lives in Boulder, Colorado, have fallen in love over email and when their respective parents swap houses for the summer, the young lovers snoop around in each other's rooms and learn to deal with jealousy and long-distance romance.

Diego keeps getting into trouble because of his explosive temper until he finally finds a probation officer who helps him get to the root of his anger so that he can stop running from his past.

Sara doesn't remember her daddy who went away, but her older sister Beth does and misses him sometimes, but both of them accept Mom's new husband Gary and call him Papa.

When her mother marries Harry, Cynthia finds that she has to adjust to changes in her life at home.

Resentful of his stepfather, eight-year-old Eli runs away with a plan to bike to Alaska to see his father, but a meeting with the mysterious Swamp Man helps him change his mind.