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1) Cinder
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle.
Author
Series
Hagenheim volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In this story loosely based on the Cinderella fairy tale, Gisela is determined to get an invitation to the ball being thrown for the duke's son, Valten, but meeting him may not lead to her happily-ever-after.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wives and Daughters, by Elizabeth Gaskell, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
A debut novel about an imaginative girl in the year following her parents' divorce, and what happens when her creeping premonition that something terrible will happen comes true in the most unexpected of ways.
The year is 1988, and America is full of broken homes. Every Other Weekend drops us into the sun-scorched suburbs of southern California, amid Bret Michaels mania and Cold War hysteria, with Nenny, a wildly precocious, nervous...
The year is 1988, and America is full of broken homes. Every Other Weekend drops us into the sun-scorched suburbs of southern California, amid Bret Michaels mania and Cold War hysteria, with Nenny, a wildly precocious, nervous...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, must move from Chicago to "The Valley," with a new stepfamily but no new friends until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's treacherous social waters.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning toride a bike and dating.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Quest (Q) and his stepsister Angela head to Chicago for their parents' concert, they uncover another plot by the terrorist group Ghost Cell in the Windy City"--Provided by publisher.
8) The Alamo
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Quest (Q) and his stepsister Angela head to Texas for their parents' concert, they discover traces of the terrorist group Ghost Cell in the Lone Star state"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In this modern version of "Cinderella," Chantella Verre is being treated like a servant by her oblivious father's new wife and her awful twins--but Chantella gets a chance to sing at the Next Teen Star audition when her former nanny shows up to set things right.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, sixteen-year-old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father's new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fairy godmother-in-training is sent to help angry seventeen-year-old Tansy, who reluctantly is staying with her father and his new wife while her mother and sister are travelling, but the unfortunate result of this intended help is chaos and confusion.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
While spending the summer with her father and his new family in Santa Monica, Eden Munro faces many new experiences and finds herself falling for the one person she should not--her stepbrother, Tyler.
14) Eggs Over Evie
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt & Company
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Evie feels unsettled and sad after her parents divorce, her father remarries and take the family dog, and his new wife becomes pregnant, but a cooking class and helping the elderly lady next door with her cat give Evie a way to cope with the changes in her life.
16) Stranded
Author
Series
Stranded. Original series volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
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.
17) Trial by fire
Author
Series
Stranded. Original series volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After being stranded on a deserted island, Jane, Buzz, Carter, and Vanessa must learn how to find food and shelter, create a fire, and get along with each other in order to survive.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alliana spends her days tending to her stepfamily's inn at the edge of the abyss, but when she rescues an orphaned nightdragon and later helps an apprentice witch, she seizes her chance to escape her stepmother's tyranny and find her own happily ever after.
20) Mountain solo
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
A teenage violin prodigy contemplates giving up her life with her mother in New York City and her music as she hikes to a pioneer homesite where another violinist once faced difficult decisions of his own.
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