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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Sent to stay with their uncle in a ship-like home called Drift House, twelve-year-old Susan and her two younger stepbrothers embark on an unexpected adventure involving duplicitous mermaids, pirates, and an attempt to stop time forever.
42) Fade to us
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Brooke's summer is going to be epic-- having fun with her friends and a job that lets her buy a car. Then her new stepfather announces his daughter is moving in. Brooke has always longed for a sibling, so she's excited about spending more time with her stepsister. But she worries, too. Natalie has Asperger's-- and Brooke's not sure how to be the big sister that Natalie needs..."--Front jacket flap.
43) Out of order
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Four youngsters narrate one side of the story of their newly blended family's adjustment, interwoven with grief and loss.
Author
Series
Poison apple books volume 7
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When Hannah moves next door to a spooky cemetery, she doesn't believe the legend of a ghost cat stalking the grounds, but the disappearance of her half-sister's cat Icky and strange occurrences around the house have her reconsidering.
45) Blood wounds
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Willa seems to have a perfect life as a member of a loving blended family until the estranged father she barely remembers murders his wife and children, then heads toward Willa and her mother.
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 6
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Although Mia feels fairly satisfied with her life, she worries about who should attend parent-teacher night and her failing grade in Spanish.
48) Inspired
Author
Series
The Firefly Tribe volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
As if life weren't complicated enough, teenager Rocket Malone has just learned that her mysterious Aunt Polly is actually Polyhymnia, a Greek Muse who desperately needs her help. Now Rocket needs to juggle middle school and apprentice Muse training, learn how to ride Pegasus and blow glass, stand up to Zeus and catch a crazed nymph named Echo -- all without losing her best friend or looking like an idiot in front of her crush Ryan.
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
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
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
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.
Author
Series
Twisted tales (Liz Braswell) volume 9
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
What if Cinderella never tried on the glass slipper? Unable to prove that she's the missing princess, and unable to bear life under Lady Tremaine any longer, Cinderella attempts a fresh start, looking for work at the palace as a seamstress. But when the Grand Duke appoints her to serve under the king's visiting sister, Cinderella becomes witness to a grand conspiracy to take the king--and the prince--out of power, as well as a longstanding prejudice...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 81
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"When Kristy's stepfather Watson has a heart attack, Kristy's really scared. Fortunately, Watson's going to be fine. But he has some surprising news for Kristy's family: following his doctor's orders, Watson's going to reduce the stress in his life -- by quitting his job and becoming Mr. Mom!... Then Kristy's grandmother Nannie moves out, a flu bug moves in, and Karen and Andrew, Watson's kids, arrive for their month at the 'big house.' Could this...
Author
Series
Adventures of the Northwoods volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Kate plans a birthday party for her stepbrother Anders and gets involved in the mysterious disappearance of items from the Erickson household.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
From award-winning author Sara Zarr comes a story of the small moments that show us who we are, and how family is not just something you're part of, but something you make. Lou and her family don't have much, but for Lou it's enough. Mom. Her sister, Casey. Their apartment in the city. Her best friend, Beth. It would be better if Dad could stop drinking and be there for her and Casey, and if they didn't have to worry about money all the time. But...
57) The Steps
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Over Christmas vacation, Annabel goes from her home in Manhattan to visit her father, his new wife, and her half- and step-siblings in Sydney, Australia.
58) Two Naomis
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Other than their first names, Naomi Marie and Naomi Edith are sure they have nothing in common, and they wouldn't mind keeping it that way. Naomi Marie starts clubs at the library and adores being a big sister. Naomi Edith loves quiet Saturdays and hanging with her best friend in her backyard. And while Naomi Marie's father lives a few blocks away, Naomi Edith wonders how she's supposed to get through each day a whole country apart from her mother....
59) Spike it!
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Unhappy at having to share space and family with her new stepsister Michaela when her father remarries, thirteen-year-old Jamie is further dismayed when Michaela joins her volleyball team and becomes a star player.