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Thirty-six-year-old Grace McAllister never longed for children. But when she meets Victor Hansen, a handsome, charismatic divorced restaurateur who is father to Max and Ava, Grace decides that, for the right man, she could learn to be an excellent part-time stepmom. After all, the kids live with their mother, Kelli. How hard could it be?
At thirteen, Ava Hansen is mature beyond her years. Since her parents' divorce, she has been taking care of...
At thirteen, Ava Hansen is mature beyond her years. Since her parents' divorce, she has been taking care of...
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Haunted mystery volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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During rehearsals for a play based on his stepmother's bestselling children's books, eleven-year-old Zack discovers that the director is planning to raise a horde of evil specters from the dead by offering up a human sacrifice
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Haunted mystery volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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With the help of his stepmother, his dog Zipper, and new friend Malik, Zack Jennings faces ghosts and zombies at his new middle school, which is said to house a lost Confederate treasure
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English
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At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
6) Ash
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves
7) THE ISLAND
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English
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"After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they're deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry, taking...
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English
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Camille Lammenais has grown up in the beauty of the Napa Valley, surrounded by acres of her family's vineyards. Her parents, Christophe and Joy, still deeply in love after two decades of marriage, have built a renowned winery and château modeled after Christophe's ancient family estate in his native Bordeaux. Camille has had a perfect childhood, safe in her parents' love. After graduating from Stanford, she returns to help manage Château Joy, her...
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When his American stepmother, who inherited his father's estate, is found dead, the Duke of Strickland, whom everyone knows detested the dowager duchess, fights for his castle and his reputation when Raya Darwish, the dowager duchess's heir, arrives to claim what is hers
10) Boy, Snow, Bird
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English
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"A reimagining of the Snow White story set in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s"--
In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty-- the opposite of the life she's left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she'd become, but the birth of Boy's...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this variation on the Cinderella story set in Greece, a girl mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters manages to captivate the prince, with help from Mother Nature and her children
13) Lizzie
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Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
A modern-day reimagining of the story of Lizzie Borden, casting her as a shy seventeen-year-old whose blackouts become worse after her father and stepmother try to prevent her from studying to be a chef
Author
Series
Six crimson cranes volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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2025 Lincoln Award Nominees
Teen: Celebrate Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Teen: Fairy Tales, Legends, and Mythology
Teen: Fantasy
Teen: Celebrate Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Teen: Fairy Tales, Legends, and Mythology
Teen: Fantasy
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The exiled Princess Shiori must unravel the curse that turned her six brothers into cranes, and she is assisted by her spurned betrothed, a capricious dragon, and a paper bird brought to life by her own magic
Shiori, princess of Kiata, has a secret: Forbidden magic runs through her veins. On the morning of her betrothal ceremony she loses control, and it forestalls the wedding she never wanted-- but it also catches the attention of Raikama, her stepmother....
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Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Annie loves living with her dad and her bunny, Snowball. But she wants her dad to find someone to love. Then he meets a woman named Martha. Soon it is time for a wedding!"--
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English
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Harry Ackerson has always considered his stepmother Alice to be sexy and beautiful. She has always been kind and attentive, if a little aloof in the last few years. Days before his college graduation, Alice calls with shocking news. His father is dead and the police think it's suicide. Returning home to Maine, Harry and Alice help each other pick up of the pieces of their lives and uncover what happened to his father. Shortly after, he meets Grace...
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English
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When her step-daughter steals money belonging to Amber, a woman who has since been evicted along with her teenage son, Cassie invites them to move in with her and as they each form friendships, Cassie discovers that Amber is trying to outrun her dark past
After her husband's sudden death, Cassie Costas's relationship with her teenage stepdaughter unravels. They move to historic Tarpon Springs, Florida, where Savannah hates the town, her school and...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
This novel enters the mind of a sociopath--a place where the rules don't apply. Where anything is fair game. And where murder is the ultimate means to an end. Film and theatre critic Caroline Enright thinks her trip to a theatre festival in the beautiful Berkshire mountains of Massachusetts will be as easy as a summer breeze--until her complicated relationship with her stepdaughter, Meg, grows even more tense, and two of Meg's friends are killed in...
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