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The scarecrows
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Robert Westall |
While visiting his mother and new stepfather whom he hates, an English teenager is terrorized by three scarecrows embodying people who met violent death and who silently threaten the entire family. |
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The well
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A. J. Whitten |
Fourteen-year-old Cooper must face a monster trapped for two centuries in a well near his stepfather's Maine vineyard or risk everything that he holds dear, including his girlfriend, Megan. |
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Well at the End of the World
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Robert D. San Souci |
In this fairy tale, loosely based on English and Scottish lore, feisty Princess Rosamond, who prefers good books to good looks, risks her throne and all her wealth to save her father's life. |
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Chime
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Franny Billingsley |
In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, Wales, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury… |
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Princess of the wild swans
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Diane Zahler |
Twelve-year-old Princess Meriel must sew shirts from stinging nettles in order to rescue her five older brothers from their evil stepmother's spell lest they remain swans forever. Inspired by the And… |
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Not exactly a love story
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Audrey Couloumbis |
After his parents divorce, high school junior Vinnie Gold moves to Long Island with his mother and new stepfather and must negotiate a secret crush and a rather complicated connection with the popula… |
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Apple-y ever after
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Jane B. Mason |
After years lost at sea, trapped by a curse, Snow White's father is back on shore. Snow is overjoyed, but the dwarves are wary--and it's soon apparent that the sopping sire hasn't washed off the curs… |
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Winter
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Marissa Meyer |
Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen … |
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In our house Scott is my brother
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C. S. Adler |
When her widowered father marries a restless, unhappy woman with a teenage son, 13-year-old Jodi finds some of the adjustments difficult to make. |
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Like Jake and Me
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Mavis Jukes |
Alex feels that he does not have much in common with his stepfather Jake until a fuzzy spider brings them together. |
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What I saw and how I lied
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Judy Blundell,Judy Blundell |
In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself … |
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The Garden of Eden Motel
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Morse Hamilton |
In the early 1950s, eleven-year-old Dal accompanies his stepfather Mr. Sabatini on a business trip to a rural community in Idaho, where Dal makes new friends and becomes involved in a scheme involvin… |
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The stepmonster
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Joanna Nadin,Églantine Ceulemans |
Tom knows all about stepmothers from the books he's read. They do all sorts of horrible things. In fact, they aren't really stepmothers at all. They are StepMONSTERS! So when his dad's new friend Lul… |
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Setting the trap
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Jeffrey Asher Nesbit |
Twelve-year-old Josh Landis has a chance to use some of the knowledge he has gained since moving to the High Sierras with his mother and stepfather, a park ranger, when he helps look for the person w… |
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Chevrolet Saturdays
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Candy Boyd,Candy Dawson Boyd |
When he enters fifth grade after his mother's remarriage, Joey has trouble adjusting to his new teacher and to his new stepfather. |
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Journey to an 800 Number
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E. L. Konigsburg |
Bo learns about kindness, love, loyalty, appearances, and pretense from the unusual characters he meets when he is sent to live with his father after his mother decides to remarry. |
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A formal feeling
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Zibby Oneal |
Sixteen-year-old Anne, home from boarding school for the holidays, has difficulty accepting her new stepmother's presence in the house that holds so many memories of her dead mother. |
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My wicked stepmother
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Norman Leach |
When his father remarries, seven-year-old Tom has trouble accepting his new stepmother. |
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Summer of the Zeppelin
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Elsie McCutcheon |
During the summer of 1918, with her father fighting in Germany and her stepmother perpetually irritable and critical, twelve-year-old Elvira decides to go live with an orphaned friend in an abandoned… |
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When we married Gary
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Anna Grossnickle Hines |
Beth still remembers the daddy who went away, although her younger sibling does not, but both of them accept Gary and call him Papa. |
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