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3) Skylark
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
Author
Series
Greenglass House volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lucy Bluecrowne is beginning a new life ashore with her stepmother and half brother, though she's certain the only place she'll ever belong is with her father on a ship of war as part of the crew. She doesn't care that living in a house is safer and the proper place for a twelve-year-old girl; it's boring. But then two nefarious strangers identify her little brother as the pyrotechnical prodigy they need to enact an evil plan, and it will take all...
5) Tangled Webb
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
154 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Juniper Webb and her best friend Alison find themselves enmeshed in a "tangled web" when the two girls begin to investigate Juniper's new stepmother's background.
Author
Series
Young Americans volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
176 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1765, twelve-year-old Nancy worries about effect of the British Stamp Act on her father's silversmith business in Williamsburg and about how to get along with her new stepmother.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
v, 184 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the Indiana wilderness in 1821, twelve-year-old Nelly Vandorn and her older brother hold fast to their rough frontier ways when their father brings home a fancy new city wife not long after burying their mother.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 276 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
At an elite Massachusetts boarding school, three fifteen-year-old girls of very different backgrounds discover a common bond and form a club to plot revenge against their evil stepmothers.
Author
Series
Grimmtastic girls volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Worried that her stepmother may be a member of the E.V.I.L. society, Snow White joins her friends to stop the society's plans to destroy Grimm Academy, but her bad luck seems to be jinxing all of their efforts.
Author
Series
Tales from the sinister city volume 4
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The town of Opum Oppidulum is home to the freezing Lake Beluarum and its rumored monster. On an island at the center of the lake is an asylum from which no one has ever escaped. So how will Rex, whose father, Ambrose Grammaticus, has been imprisoned there under false pretenses, prove that Ambrose is not insane? And if Rex can free his father, will his evil stepmother drive them both to madness?
17) Snow in Summer
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Recasts the tale of Snow White, setting it in West Virginia in the 1940s with a stepmother who is a snake-handler.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Daisy Meyer is angry and frustrated with her world: her German American town, New Ulm, is under surveillance, her father's newspaper was forced to shut down for criticizing the United States' entry into World War I, her beloved older sister Elsie's fiancé is deployed to France, and she deeply resents her stepmother--but worse is coming, because this is October 1918, and influenza is about to descend on her home and family, and it...
Author
Series
Roman mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
170 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a Roman widow shows unusual interest in Flavia's father, Flavia decides to discover Cartila's true motives by performing twelve tasks, just like the Greek hero Hercules.
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