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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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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...
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KEY News thrillers volume 9
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
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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 what looks like a tragic accident.
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Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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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.
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Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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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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"From the lighthouse sporting a huge wreath to the Christmas Stroll along its quaint streets, holidays on Nantucket are always magical. However, while the town might be aglow like a scene from Dickens tale, unfortunately for newly married island newcomer Nicole Somerset, Christmas means a dreaded visit from her step-daughter. Headstrong Kennedy brings with her a family of her own--husband Archer and adorable 3 year old son, Maddox--but Kennedy's yet...
10) Lies like poison
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Three years after one secretly backed out of a plot to kill Raven's abusive stepmother, former friends Poppy, Lily, and Belladonna are drawn back together when one of them is arrested for the stepmother's murder.
Poppy, Lily, and Belladonna would do anything to protect their best friend, Raven. When they discovered he was suffering abuse at the hands of his stepmother, they came up with a lethal plan: petals of poppy, belladonna, and lily in her...
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Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The Wicked Stepmother wants to do something to help people and make amends for her past. But trying to find the right job proves tricky, until the Terrible Ogre gives her an idea.
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Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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This You Choose adventure is told from three different perspectives--White Snow is a secret agent in Good Prince's army, looking for a computer with secret codes for a bomb; Mrs. White desperately searches for her runaway daughter Snow; and Charming, towed by his seven loyal sleddogs, goes to rescue his friend and mentor Meteorologist Snow-White, who is trapped in a raging blizzard in the Arctic--the reader chooses which plot to pursue.
13) Nissa's Place
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Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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A thirteen-year-old girl in Depression-era Louisiana grapples with her mother moving to Chicago, her father remarrying, and finding where she belongs.
Ever since Nissa Bergen's father Ivar remarried, Nissa has felt like a stranger in her own home, clinging to her memories of her free-spirited mother, Heirah Rae, who moved to Chicago to escape the conformity of small-town Louisiana. To make matters worse, Nissa's not ready for the physical changes...
14) Katy's debate
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Katy Lambright series volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Katy, a Mennonite teenager attending secular high school, joins the debate team, and tries to keep her father from remarrying so that she does not have to adjust to having a stepmother.
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Squishy Taylor volume 5
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Now that Squishy has been living with her father in Melbourne for some time she has grown close to her "bonus" sisters, the twins Vee and Jesse, but she is still not sure about their mom, her father's new wife. Squishy is newly fixated on astronauts and space travel, and she has a new mystery to solve: who is the "spacewoman" across the street, why is she building a rocket on the roof of her apartment building, and how are they going to get through...
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Disney villains volume 8
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"Lady Tremaine, widowed and raising two headstrong girls alone, finds herself falling for a dashing knight from a far-off land who is looking for a stepmother for his own young daughter. But stepmothers in the Many Kingdoms never tend to fare well...and Lady Tremaine may be destined for a not-so-happily ever after"--
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2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers- Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen's boss, as a US marshal...
18) Skylark
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Series
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
19) Court of swans
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Dericott tale volume 1
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English
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England, 1381. Delia's quiet life as the daughter of an earl is shattered when her seven brothers are betrayed by their father and falsely arrested for treason and murder. With the Peasants' Revolt threatening the peace of the kingdom, King Richard II is executing anyone who poses a threat to his throne. Delia infiltrates the palace as a seamstress for the new queen so she can be near her brothers. She discovers Sir Geoffrey, the guard captain who...
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Grimmtastic girls volume 3
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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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.
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