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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Description
When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating.
2) After Anna
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Description
Dr. Noah Alderman, a widower and single father, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie Ippoliti, and for the first time in a long time, he and his young son are happy. Despite her longing for the daughter she hasn't seen since she was a baby, Maggie is happy too, and she's even more overjoyed when she unexpectedly get another chance to be a mother to the child she thought she'd lost forever, her only daughter, Anna. Maggie and Noah know that having...
3) Gingerbread
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Series
Cyd Charisse trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After being expelled from a fancy boarding school, Cyd Charisse's problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer and is subsequently sent from San Francisco to New York City to spend time with her biological father.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
While his human Elliot adjusts to his new home and stepfamily, Gizmo, an evil genius guinea pig, searches for a new evil lair where he can plot to take over the world, but Gizmo is constantly thwarted by Elliot's little stepsister Jasmine (who likes to play dress-up), Abuela (who may or may not like to eat cavies), and Wedgie (a Corgi superhero and Gizmo's nemesis).
5) Two Naomis
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
700L
Description
Other than their first names, Naomi Marie and Naomi Edith are sure they have nothing in common, and they wouldn't mind keeping it that way. Naomi Marie's father lives a few blocks away, and Naomi Edith wonders how she's supposed to get through each day a whole country apart from her mother. When Naomi Marie's mom and Naomi Edith's dad get serious about dating, each girl tries to cling to the life she knows and loves.
6) Out of order
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Four youngsters, ages nine to fifteen, narrate one side of the story of their newly blended family's adjustment, interwoven with grief and loss.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
480L
Description
While his human Elliot adjusts to his new home and stepfamily, Gizmo, an evil genius guinea pig, searches for a new evil lair where he can plot to take over the world, but Gizmo is constantly thwarted by Elliot's little stepsister Jasmine (who likes to play dress-up), Abuela (who may or may not like to eat cavies), and Wedgie (a Corgi superhero and Gizmo's nemesis).
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
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 marriage.
9) Wintergirls
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Back in San Francisco for her senior year in high school, seventeen-year-old Cyd attempts to reconcile with her boyfriend, Shrimp, making some girlfriends and beginning to feel more a part of her family in the process.
11) Cupcake
Author
Series
Cyd Charisse trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Former "bad girl" Cyd Charisse moves to New York City to live with her half-brother Danny while exploring career options and various relationships, including the one with Shrimp, who is surfing in New Zealand.
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
While spending his Christmas vacation in New York City with his father and new stepfamily, twelve-year Lucas meets a rebellious agent of the secret Annoyance Bureau, which exists to control or eliminate all sources of annoyance in the modern world.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle 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...
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Description
A woman marries into a ready-made family and learns the true meaning of motherhood. Marrying a divorced father of two, Andi finds herself struggling to gain her stepdaughters' acceptance while preserving family peace in the face of daily dramas and competitions for her husband's attention.
18) The White House
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Q and his half-sister Angela are spending the night in the White House. What should have been a great honor turns into an incredible nightmare of intrigue with bombings, kidnappings, spies, terrorists, and ghosts. Behind it all is Angela's mother, Malak, who is supposed to be dead. Whose side is Malak on? How will Q and Angela stop the ghosts from destroying the United States of America?"--Page 2 of cover.
19) Alcatraz
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"After thwarting the ghost cell's chemical attack in Chicago, Q and his stepsister Angela arrive in San Francisco to continue their parents' concert tour. They find themselves helping Boone and the S.O.S. team in the final showdown with the ghost cell and its leader, Number One"--
20) Kitty Hawk
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"The president's daughter has been kidnapped by the elusive and lethal Ghost Cell. Quest (Q) and Angela are in hot pursuit with vicious winds and blinding rain thwarting them at every turn. It's a desperate high stakes chase"--
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