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Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An ambitious wife and mother who expects her family to achieve high goals no matter the cost is forced to confront her impossible standards as her husband and children rebel, exposing deep cracks in the family's foundation.
In gossiping circles Karen Bloom is known as the tiger mother. She believes that tough discipline is the true art of parenting, and expects her husband and her children to perform at 200 percent. But her family start to rebel...
2) After Anna
Author
Language
English
Description
"Nobody cuts deeper than family ... Noah Alderman, a doctor and a widower, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie, and for the first time in a long time he and his son are happy. But their lives are turned upside down when Maggie's daughter Anna moves in with them. Anna is a gorgeous seventeen-year-old who balks at living under their rules though Maggie, ecstatic to have her daughter back, ignores the red flags that hint at the trouble that is brewing....
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group's PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides advice on how to accept and deal with the challenges of living in a stepfamily, or blended family.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Money issues are a frequent source of conflict in all marriages. But blended families are a monetary minefield. Debts, bills, and child support payments from previous relationships often influence the finances of a blended family. And planning for college expenses, retirement, and inheritance gets even more complicated in remarriage. These issues can explode couple unity and blow up developing family harmony. However, proper blended family money management...
5) Stepfamilies
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the changes involved in becoming part of a stepfamily and ways to deal with the new situation.
6) Heart bones
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim's parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself. With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah...
7) For now
Author
Publisher
KCP Fiction
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
247 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jes continues to struggle with her life and her new stepfamily as she starts eleventh grade, her mother gets pregnant, her friend Dell continues to obsess over her creepy boyfriend, and she develops feelings for her friend Sam.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Michaela's mom dies and she has to move in with her dad, she discovers he's been married with kids all this time and she's the product of an affair"--
Michaela is a junior in high school, living with her single mom. Her dad lives a few towns away and she only sees him on holidays and birthdays. They barely know each other, but Michaela is so close with her mom that she's never minded. That is, until her mom dies suddenly, and Michaela has to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sofia, Amber, Princess Jun, and a visitor embark on a daring rescue mission when James and Prince Jin become trapped while searching for the legendary treasure of the Jade Jaguar.
Author
Publisher
Switchboard Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
506 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fred Oglesburg has had enough. The vile woman his father plans to marry has already shipped his grandfather to an elder care center. Now she plans to push Fred out, too. But Fred has a plan to get rid of her first and get his parents back together. He plots to burgle the engagement ring and travel with his best friend, Stan, to Mordor, California, where he hopes to destroy the ring once and for all. On their quest from Oregon to southern California,...
11) Haunted waters
Author
Series
Red Rock mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
202 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Timberline family makes a weekend getaway for a visit to a gold exhibit, but it leads to a search for a stolen gold nugget and danger for the entire family.
12) Big sky country
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he inherits half of a ranch, Sheriff Slade Barlow meets resistance from his half-brother Hutch, especially when Hutch's former flame, Josyln Kirk, who is working hard to make up for her stepfather's dishonesty, catches his eye.
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
[American edition]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Funny and heartfelt, this picture book follows Lily-May as she learns to embrace the positive aspects of her blended family after her parents get divorced, discovering just how many people love her!
17) Cinderfella
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a hilarious twist on the timeless fairy tale, the irrepressible Jerry Lewis plays the title role of CINDERFELLA - a hard-working and honest lad mistreated by his wicked stepmother (Judith Anderson) and his two boorish stepbrothers (Henry Silva, Robert Hutton). But miracles do happen - especially when your Fairy Godfather is the one-and-only Ed Wynn! With a little - okay, a lot - of wizardry and magic, the wacky Wynn manages to transform the klutzy...
18) Speed of life
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Missing her mother who died last year, fourteen-year-old Sofia finds an anonymous outlet for her personal questions and deep, dark secrets in the Dear Kate advice columnist until, much to her horror, Sofia's father starts dating Kate.
19) Party dreams
Author
Series
Magic puppy volume 5
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2011], c2008
Physical Desc
124 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Paige's worries about her mother's hospitalization and the new brother who is on the way, not having a birthday party, and needing to stay at her step-grandmother's spooky country house, fade when a magical puppy named Storm arrives.
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.
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