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"Jiselle, a young flight attendant has just settled into a fairy tale life with her new husband and stepchildren. But as a mysterious new illness spreads rapidly throughout the country, she begins to realize that her marriage, her stepchildren, and their perfect world are all in terrible danger "--
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
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Celebrate the transformative power of kindness with Disney's Cinderella, a modern classic that shines with beauty, imagination...and magic! Despite being bullied by her stepmother and stepsisters, a spirited Ella refuses to despair or retaliate, choosing instead to honor her mother's last words: "Have courage and be kind". Then one day, she meets a remarkable, like-minded man in the woods and she resolves to take charge of her fate in hopes of seeing...
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"At the Manhattan private school where Beckett is the new girl, the "beautiful girls" are dying off in suicide pacts. Her boyfriend, Tobey, is attacked in the bathroom of a coffee shop and winds up in a coma. Her widowed father takes up with the pretty school nurse, who, Beckett slowly discovers, is not what she seems. Like Alice down the rabbit hole, Beckett finds herself in an incomprehensible universe, where the line between reality and fantasy...
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Bridgerton series volume 3
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Sophie Beckett never dreamed she'd be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball. Though the daughter of an earl, Sophie has been relegated to the role of servant by her disdainful stepmother. But now, waltzing in the strong arms of the debonair and devastatingly handsome Benedict Bridgerton, she feels like royalty. Alas, she knows all enchantments must end when the clock strikes midnight. Who was the extraordinary woman? Ever since...
46) Hush little baby
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Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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When Dusty came to Kit's house that day, she not only thrust a baby into her arms, but all the fear and danger that came with it.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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"Rebecca Eckler’s newest book chronicles the hard truth of what it’s really like to make a blended family. Blissfully Blended Bullshit is a witty, engaging, refreshingly candid chronicle of a modern family’s journey as they blend households. We follow Eckler as her partner and two children move in with her and her daughter. Then, they add another baby to the mix, thanks to a reverse vasectomy. Readers go along for the ride in this poignant,...
49) Ash
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
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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.
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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In this modern version of Snow White, Eira Blanc escapes when her stepmother tries to have her killed, and find herself taken in by seven thieves who agree to help her in her plan to take down the Wicked Witch of the West Side.
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2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
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June is physically and emotionally abused by her stepmother, and the only person June feels safe telling is her friend Blister, who helps her believe she can escape her nightmare situation, but when a shocking tragedy occurs June finds herself trapped, potentially forever.
53) Shipwreck island
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Shipwreck Island volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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Sarah Robinson is deeply troubled in the wake of her dad's second marriage. She now has to deal with a new stepmom and two stepbrothers, Marco, who is her age, and Nacho, who's younger. Even though they've all moved from Texas to California to start life as a new, blended family, none of the kids seem remotely happy about it. Sarah's dad and stepmom then decide to take the whole family on a special vacation in order to break the ice and have everyone...
55) Family of lies
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℗♭2014.
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"After growing up poor in Texas, Vera Lomax used every gold-digging trick in the book to land a rich husband. Now living in the lap of luxury in San Francisco, her only job is to fawn over her much-older husband, so it's been easy for her to balance a life of shopping and affairs with younger men with a major secret: the sixteen-year bribery of one of her husband's mistresses to keep her pregnancy under wraps. Vera figures that a little hush money...
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2018.
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"As summer beckons, Evie's family gathers once more at the beautiful old riverside house they all adore. But when Evie discovers a secret that threatens their future, a shadow falls over them all: this summer by the river could be their last together"--
Evie loved the house. The bright, sunny rooms looking across the river; the terraced gardens with fruit trees growing against the high stone walls; the scent of lavender at the end of a hot day. As...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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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...
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Baby-sitters little sister. Main series volume 49
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Karen has a lot of trouble getting used to her new stepmother.