stepfathers

At first unhappy with a new stepfather and a new school on a military base that was once an off-reservation boarding school for Indian children, thirteen-year-old Jenny finds herself changing as she makes two new friends, one the son of the base commander and the other the ghost of Jonah Flying Cloud, who died there in 1880.

Seventeen-year-old Richard discovers the incredible details of his stern and remote stepfather's hidden past when he is left a manuscript to read while his stepfather is away in Australia.

Twelve-year-old Abigail Smith disguises herself as a boy and joins the American Fleet on Lake Champlain, where she witnesses the horrors and violence of battle and forges a lasting friendship with Pascal De Angelis.

When his mother's new marriage takes them into the household of a miniature golf course owner, ten-year-old Wedge struggles with feelings of resentment and dislike for his stepfather.

Sixth grader Samantha finds a way to cope with her difficulties in adjusting to a new stepfather, a new home and a new school when she makes friends with the unconventional Jasmine and learns to ride a horse.

Charley is sure that the first Halloween in his new house will be awful, until his stepfather takes him out trick-or-treating.