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1) Skylark
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
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Greenglass House volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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In 1810, Lucy Bluecrowne, twelve, is bored living ashore with her stepmother and half brother until two nefarious strangers identify her little brother as the pyrotechnical prodigy they need for their evil plan.
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Dericott tale volume 1
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In medieval England, after her seven brothers are falsely accused of murder and treason, eighteen-year-old Delia flees their cruel stepmother and becomes a seamstress at Westminster Palace, hoping to gain their release, with Sir Geoffrey's assistance.
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When his American stepmother, who inherited his father's estate, is found dead, the Duke of Strickland, whom everyone knows detested the dowager duchess, fights for his castle and his reputation when Raya Darwish, the dowager duchess's heir, arrives to claim what is hers.
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Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 22 cm.
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Thirteen-year-old Sherry helps her mother, a ghost, to investigate who is stalking Sherry's stepmother, but Sherry is also very busy with school and friends, while her mother is also striving for a gold medal in the Ghostlympics.
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KEY News thrillers volume 9
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This novel enters the mind of a sociopath--a place where the rules don't apply. Where anything is fair game. And where murder is the ultimate means to an end. Film and theatre critic Caroline Enright thinks her trip to a theatre festival in the beautifulBerkshire 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...
11) Blood magic
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Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
408 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In Yaleylah, Missouri, teens Silla and Nick, drawn together by loss and a shared family history of blood magic practitioners, are plunged into a world of dark magic as they try to unravel the mystery of Silla's parents' apparent murder suicide.
12) Woman last seen
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"Leigh Fletcher: happily married stepmom to two boys goes missing on Monday. Kai Janssen: married to wealthy Dutch businessman Daan and vanishes the same week. Detective Clements knows that people disappear all the time--far too frequently. Most run away from things, some run toward and others are taken but find their way back. A sad few never return. These two women are from very different worlds. Their disappearances are unlikely to be connected....
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Disney villains volume 8
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 19 cm.
Description
"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"--
14) The island
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Pub. Date
2022.
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375 pages ; 25 cm.
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"After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they're deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry, taking...
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Six crimson cranes volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 710L
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The exiled Princess Shiori must unravel the curse that turned her six brothers into cranes, and she is assisted by her spurned betrothed, a capricious dragon, and a paper bird brought to life by her own magic.
Shiori, princess of Kiata, has a secret: Forbidden magic runs through her veins. On the morning of her betrothal ceremony she loses control, and it forestalls the wedding she never wanted-- but it also catches the attention of Raikama, 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. The story is told by Cyril's son Danny, as he and his older...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 pages : color illustrations, 24 cm.
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"Annie loves living with her dad and her bunny, Snowball. But she wants her dad to find someone to love. Then he meets a woman named Martha. Soon it is time for a wedding!"--
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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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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...
20) Precious gifts
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Handsome, widowed, sophisticated, utterly charming, Paul Parker won the heart of a wealthy young Frenchwoman--the daughter of an American financier, the granddaughter of a major French art dealer--as his second wife. In two marriages, he fathered a challenging son and three very different daughters. But as irresponsible as he was irresistible, he ultimately shrugged off the demands of marriage and parenting to pursue life as an international bon vivant....
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