stepfathers

Charli's impulsive uncle, Will Crandall, decides to buy the town's abandoned, possibly haunted castle and fix it up as a bed-and-breakfast, but Charli and Sophia, a clairvoyant orphan who has come to stay with the Crandall family, know his plan is somehow dangerous.

An 11-year-old deaf girl and a 13-year-old boy with family problems seek refuge at a swing which has come to have a special meaning for each of them.

A girl discovers that it takes time for her to adjust to her new stepfather and that he must also learn to adjust to her.

While visiting his mother and new stepfather whom he hates, an English teenager is terrorized by three scarecrows embodying people who met violent death and who silently threaten the entire family.

In 1944, a thirteen-year-old girl grapples with the discovery that "Pa" isn't her biological father, experiences her first romance, and faces hardships dealt to friends in Brooklyn's Norwegian community.

When her new stepfather imposes restrictions on her daily life, and her best friend prepares to move to Cleveland, Natalie takes drastic steps to stem the tide of change in her life.

Eleven-year-old Brittany and her little brother Eric suspect their stepfather has married their mother for some evil purpose, and they race against time to figure out why before he destroys them all.