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Language
English
Description
When Charlotte married older and wealthy widower Paul, it caused a ripple of gossip in their small lakeside town. They have a charmed life together, despite the cruel whispers about her trailer-park past and his first marriage. But everything starts to unravel when she discovers a young woman's body floating in the exact same spot where Paul's first wife tragically drowned.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Forced to move from Manhattan to an Oklahoma farm when her mother remarries, sixteen-year-old Bella relies on her faith while investigating a deadly, secret organization for the school newspaper, as she slowly realizes how shallow and spoiled she has been.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A down-on-her-luck movie actress runs into her detestable former co-star--dreamboat-from-hell Bramwell Shepard--in Las Vegas and gets caught up in a ridiculous incident that leads to a calamitous elopement. Can two enemies find themselves working without a script in a town where the spotlight shines bright...and where the strongest emotions can wear startling disguises?
10) Bummer summer
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Kammy has difficulty accepting her new family after her father's remarriage, a summer at Camp Arrowhead helps her to put her home life in perspective.
11) Three dog winter
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
The world of sled dog racing in northern Montana forms the background for a twelve-year-old boy's adjustment to his father's death, his mother's remarriage, and the integration of two families into one.
12) The matchmakers
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Single mom Dori Robertson is suddenly under pressure to find a new father for her eleven-year-old son. And he's already chosen the guy--former pro-football player Gavin Parker. As it turns out, Gavin's daughter wants her dad to marry again, too. When the kids join forces, Gavin suggests he and Dori start dating, just to satisfy the kids. Dori figures it's safe enough...until he kisses her!"--p.[4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Annabel's extended family gathers in Los Angeles for several weeks over the summer where she must contend with step- and half- sisters and brothers and her own mother's failing second marriage.
14) Lost in the sun
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As Trent Zimmerman struggles to move past a traumatic event that took place several months earlier, he befriends class outcast Fallon Little, who helps him understand that he can move on"--
15) What hearts
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
After his mother divorces his father and remarries, Asa's sharp intellect and capacity for forgiveness help him deal with the instabilities of his new world.
16) Hideaway
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Description
When his father forgets to come for him after his mother leaves on her wedding trip with her new husband, twelve-year-old Jerry runs away from both of them to his grandparents' house, only they don't live there any more.
17) Lexie
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Lexie goes with her father to the beach for a week, she is surprised to find that he has invited his girlfriend and her two sons to join them for the entire week.
18) Oh, brother!
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Xavier is unhappy when his mother remarries and he suddenly has a new stepbrother, as well as a stepfather, in his home.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Annabelle spends autumn coping with competing groups of friends at school, her mother's pre-wedding stress, learning to get along with a cute stepbrother-to-be, and such momentous events as wearing her first bra and learning to shave her legs.
20) Sport
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2001, c1979
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Sport lives happily with his absent-minded father. His ruthless and wealthy mother suddenly wants his custody.