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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.
9) Bound
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cinders isn't supposed to know how to do magic. Her dog, Sparks, isn't supposed to talk. And they're definitely not supposed to go to the fancy palace ball. But with a fairy godmother named Brian, do we really think that's going to stop them?
12) 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.
13) Wild cards
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told from two viewpoints, Derek Fitzpatrick, kicked out of boarding school, must move with his stepmother to her childhood home in Illinois, where he meets Ashtyn Parker, who may be able to achieve her dream of a football scholarship with bad boy Derek's help.
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.
18) 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
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
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.
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