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1) Heart bones
Author
Language
English
Description
"Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim's parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself. With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Language
English
Description
Meet Sofia, a little girl who lives a rather ordinary life. But everything changes when her mother, Miranda, marries the king. Overnight, Sofia becomes a princess, moves into the castle, gains a step-brother, a step-sister ... and the ability to talk to her new animal friends thanks to a magical amulet! Now, life is anything but ordinary for Sofia the First!
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Blending Families responds to the need for a book that explores step-parenting by starting with the marriage as the central relationship in a new blended family unit. Just as you are better able to help your child in an airplane emergency if you put your oxygen mask on first, you are better able to blend two families if you take care of the marriage first. Starting with a discussion of attachment styles, the authors explore how those styles translate...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When Coast Guard commander Frank Beardsley bumps into his old high school flame Helen North, sparks fly again, and the two quickly marry. Complications arrive when it comes time to merge their two families. Frank has 8 kids and Helen has 10 kids. With Frank looking to keep tight military control over the brood, and Helen preferring her loving, hippy-like ways of encouragement, the two struggle to maintain a family and home where the kids don't like...
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Being a member of a blended family is more common today than it was in the past. More children are members of a blended family, and many of them have important questions. This guidance volume helps readers understand the difficulties and joys involved with living in a blended family. This text was specifically crafted with young readers in mind, and photographs of children interacting with adults will help readers understand the intricacies of living...
7) After Anna
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Noah Alderman, a doctor and a widower, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie, and for the first time in a long time he and his son are happy. But their lives are turned upside down when Maggie's daughter Anna moves in with them. Anna is a gorgeous seventeen-year-old who balks at living under their rules though Maggie, ecstatic to have her daughter back, ignores the red flags that hint at the trouble that is brewing. Events take a deadly turn when...
8) Stepfamilies
Author
Series
Publisher
Copper Beech Books
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Explores the different nature of stepfamilies, examining the difficulties, pleasures, and issues involved in becoming part of a stepfamily.
9) Stepfamilies
Author
Series
Publisher
Gloucester Press
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Description
Discusses what happens to children when their parents remarry.
10) Table for five
Author
Language
English
Description
When an estranged couple is killed in a tragic accident, strangers Lily Robinson and Sean McGuire are named the guardians of their three orphaned children and must find a way to become a family.
11) Commonwealth
Author
Language
English
Description
"The acclaimed, bestselling author--winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize--tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly--thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining...
12) Missing child
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Caitlin finds her past coming back to haunt her when her six-year-old stepson is kidnapped from school, jeopardizing her relationship with her husband and everything she loves.
13) Dreambuilders
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It centers on Minna, a young girl who misuses her newfound ability to create and control other people's dreams to teach her bothersome stepsister a lesson.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Marissa Cortez Wilson has it all: married to a famous spy-hunting television reporter, with a new baby and intelligent twin step kids, Rebecca and Cecil. When maniacal Timekeeper disrupts her domestic bliss, threatening to take over the planet, Marissa comes out of retirement as a top secret agent. With Armageddon quickly approaching, Rebecca and Cecil are thrust into action!"
15) Changes
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
Description
TV documentary producer and single mother Melanie Adams falls in love with internationally famous heart surgeon Peter Hallam, and together they struggle to balance passionate love with personal achievement.
16) Step brothers
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Brennan and Dale are two middle-aged loafers who are forced to live together when their parents get married. When their immature antics over TV privileges and personal property take their toll on their parents' marriage, the devious duo hatch a scheme to reunite the couple.
19) White smoke
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Language
English
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Formats
Description
Believing her new home to actually be alive, especially when her brother almost dies, Marigold and her new blended family won't be safe until she brings the truth to light once and for all.
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume no. 31
Publisher
HarperEntertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Melanie is afraid she will have to leave Whitebrook Farm, Christinia, and her favorite pony Trib, when her father surprises her with the news that he has remarried.