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1) Cinder
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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 to ride a bike and dating.
Author
Publisher
W Pub. Group/Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Amanda is heartbroken as she watches them drive her beloved twins away. She's resolved to hope and fight for them until her last breath.
Kara and Lizzie are heiresses to one of the largest fortunes in the country. But when their father dies suddenly, the toddlers are taken from the arms of their loving stepmother, Amanda, and given to relatives who only want the children's fortune for themselves.
Kara and Lizzie grow
...Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A car accident unites two strangers to raise three orphaned children in this romantic, tragicomic classic by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
Lily Robinson and Sean McGuire have nothing in common. She guards her independent lifestyle with a ferocity that hides a fear of love and the pain it can bring. He's always been a rolling stone, making his own way. But with the sudden deaths of a couple close to them both, the two become joined in...
5) After Anna
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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
Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
[2013)
Language
English
Description
As the only child of a single mom, Jenny Collins wanted nothing more than to be part of a large, rambunctious family like the O'Briens. Ironically, though, when her mother married into that family, Jenny found herself feeling more like an outsider than ever. Now, after years in Nashville as an established songwriter, Jenny's drawn back to Chesapeake Shores to collaborate on a Christmas production...and to make peace with the past. As if that's not...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic / Graphix
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"They're lean, they're mean, they're the pride of Stoneybrook. Who are they? They're Kristy's Krushers! When Kristy sees how much her little brothers and sister want to play on a softball team, she starts a ragtag team of her own. Maybe Kristy's Krushers aren't world champions (how could they be, with Jackie Rodowsky, walking disaster, playing for them?), but nobody beats them when it comes to team spirit. Now Bart's Bashers have challenged the Krushers...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"As the owner of Twisted, Seattle's best salons, Erica knows that the sharpest cuts come from the people we love. She's terrified that she's losing her teen daughter, Summer, to her "other" family, especially to her stepmom, Allison. All it takes to blow up Allison's happy life is one collect call. From prison. Her beloved husband, Peter, has been arrested, leaving Allison pregnant, broke, scared and alone with a toddler. But when her stepdaughter...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
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 takes 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. Includes recipes.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Louis, who loves baseball despite being the worst stickball player in White Plains, New York, sees his opportunity to be bat boy for the 1961 Yankees team as the perfect way to escape the problems of his father's remarriage and moving to the suburbs.
11) Alcatraz
Author
Series
I Q volume 6
Publisher
Cherry Lake Pub
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"After thwarting the ghost cell's chemical attack in Chicago, Q and his stepsister Angela arrive in San Francisco to continue their parents' concert tour. They find themselves helping Boone and the S.O.S. team in the final showdown with the ghost cell and its leader, Number One"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Here are the numbers of Ann Galardi's life:She is 16.And a size 17.Her perfect mother is a size 6.Her Aunt Jackie is getting married in 2 months, and wants Ann to be a bridesmaid.So Ann makes up her mind: Time to lose 45 pounds (more or less).Welcome to the world of informercial diet plans, wedding dance lessons, endless run-ins with the cutest guy Ann's ever seen-and some surprises about her not-so-perfect mother.And there's one more thing-it's all...
13) The White House
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Q and Angela attempt to learn the truth about the supposed death of Angela's real mother, who used to be a Secret Service agent, while trying to figure out who they can trust.
14) Kitty Hawk
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"The president's daughter has been kidnapped by the elusive and lethal Ghost Cell. Quest (Q) and Angela are in hot pursuit with vicious winds and blinding rain thwarting them at every turn. It's a desperate high stakes chase"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Shy and scrawny Dan Weekes spends his time creating graphic novels inspired by his dream girl and looking out for his mom as she dates every man in the state of California. Then his mom drops a bomb: she and her latest beau, Hank, are engaged, and she's sending her "two favorite men" on a survivalist camping trip to "bond." Determined to trick Hank into showing his true flawed colors on the trip, Dan and his nerdy germaphobe best friend, Charlie,...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Frankie Joe Huckaby, forced to live with the father he never knew, a stepmother, and four half-brothers in Illinois, starts a delivery service to finance his escape back to his mother in Texas, not realizing he is making a better life for himself than he ever had with her.
17) The Windy City
Author
Series
I Q volume 5
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2014].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"--
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 6
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Although Mia feels fairly satisfied with her life, she worries about who should attend parent-teacher night and her failing grade in Spanish.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Wedding bells are ringing, a family is reunited, and new love is blooming--for better or worse--in this captivating novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Island House and Secrets in Summer. A few years after losing her beloved husband, Alison is doing something she never thought she would do again: getting married. While placing the finishing touches on her summer nuptials, Alison is anxious to introduce her fiance, David, to her...
20) Land of the buffalo bones: the diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, an English girl in Minnesota
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.