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Language
English
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On the outside, twelve-year-old Jillian Maxwell is the perfect child. She's helpful with chores around the house, gets straight A's in school, has plans for college, and stays out of trouble. She seems to have everything a girl could want: a beautiful new home, an adoring little sister, a mother who cares about her, and an attentive stepfather. But inside, Jillian harbors a terrible secret.
Author
Language
English
Description
Alison's new stepfather, the charismatic plastic surgeon Peter Dunn, is certain he can turn Alison into a vision of loveliness. Reluctantly, Alison agrees to undergo the first procedure, and her transformation begins. But soon Alison discovers a picture of Peter's first wife. To Alison's horror, she notices a resemblance between the image in the photo and the work her stepfather is doing on her.--From publisher description.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sent to live with his uncle after a violent confrontation with his stepfather, sixteen-year-old Travis, an aspiring writer, finds life in a small Oklahoma town confining until he meets an eighteen-year-old horse trainer named Casey.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
With the advice of her stepfather, eleven-year-old Katie takes on the job of feeding an abused junkyard dog and building it a doghouse for shelter during the hard winter.
5) What hearts
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Claire Barclay receives news that her beloved stepfather has had a stroke, Claire and her husband, Art, leave New York and fly back to Scotland to care for him during the summer. When their visit makes clear that Leo is no longer capable of living on his own but determined to stay in his beloved old house, they offer to purchase the place from Leo and build him a cottage on the property. But Claire's old flame Jonas Fairwether (who has become...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
8) Blind Beauty
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Teenage Tessa's passion for riding and her love for an ugly horse named Buffoon help her endure an unhappy life in the English countryside with a hateful stepfather.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Josh, who has just moved to Vermont with his mother, stepfather, and new baby brother, must deal with the bullying of a neighbor boy and discovers that his dog, whom he hears talking with other dogs, is also facing a bully of his own.
10) Spooner
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Warren Spooner was born on the first of December 1956, in Milledgeville, Georgia, after a prolonged labor in a makeshift delivery room in a doctor's office. His dad died shortly afterward, long before Spooner could have even a memory of his face. Eventually, his father was replaced by Calmer Ottosson, a once-brilliant young naval officer recently court-martialed out of the service. This is the story of the lifelong tie between the two men, poles apart....
11) The ghost boy
Author
Series
Publisher
Perfection Learning
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
Tricia makes some important discoveries about her stepfather's past while staying with him at his mountain cabin.
12) Shadows
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Magic is illegal in Newworld, so Maggie struggles to explain the strange shadows--that only she can see--that seem to accompany her new stepfather everywhere"--Provided by publisher.
15) Like Jake and me
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1984]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Alex feels that he does not have much in common with his stepfather Jake until a fuzzy spider brings them together.
16) When she hollers
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Tish, a teenager who has been enduring abuse from her adoptive stepfather since she was a small child, finally decides she must do something to stop him.
17) The cheerleaders
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a town prepares for the anniversary of the deaths of five cheerleaders who were killed in three separate, horrific accidents, two teens uncover long-buried truths about what really happened years ago"--
18) Daddy's home 2
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In the sequel to the 2015 global smash, Dusty and Brad have joined forces to provide their kids the perfect Christmas. Their newfound partnership is put to the test when Dusty's old-school, macho dad and Brad's ultra-affectionate and emotional dad arrive just in time to throw the holiday into complete chaos.
19) Heartbeat
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Struggling with grief over a mother who is on life support as well as her slipping grades and her anger with her stepfather, Emma forges an uncharacteristic connection with a local bad boy, Caleb, who makes her heart feel alive again.
20) Two under par
Author
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
1997,c1987
Language
English
Description
When his mother's new marriage takes them into the household of a miniature golf course owner, ten-year-old Wedge struggles with feelings of resentment and dislike for his stepfather.