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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Princess Meriel must sew shirts from stinging nettles in order to rescue her five older brothers from their evil stepmother's spell lest they remain swans forever. Inspired by the Andersen fairy tale, "The Wild Swans."
Author
Series
Monster High diaries volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Draculaura brings her ghoulfriends on a special trip to Transylvania for her dad's wedding! Dracula is getting a new wife-and Draculaura is getting a new stepmomster!"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by their father and living in poverty with their heartless stepmother in Louisiana, two sisters from the Philippines, twelve-year-old Sol and six-year-old Ming, learn the true meaning of family.
Author
Series
Greenglass House volume 3
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
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.
7) Chime
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about.
8) Blood magic
Author
Series
Blood journals volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Cinders and Sparks volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Cinders isn't supposed to know how to do magic. Her dog, Sparks, isn't supposed to talk. And they're definitely not supposed to go to the fancy palace ball. But with a fairy godmother named Brian, do we really think that's going to stop them?
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When I first met my stepmother, I was a little suspicious. All stepmothers are supposed to be wicked! Evil! Downright B-A-D BAD! Or at least, that's what the stories say. So I thought I knew just what to expect from mine. But my stepmother didn't seem to be any of those things. She helped me paint my room. She left me notes in my lunch box. She baked my favorite lemon squares. Is it possible I might have been wrong about stepmothers?
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Daisy Meyer is angry and frustrated with her world: her German American town, New Ulm, is under surveillance, her father's newspaper was forced to shut down for criticizing the United States' entry into World War I, her beloved older sister Elsie's fiancé is deployed to France, and she deeply resents her stepmother--but worse is coming, because this is October 1918, and influenza is about to descend on her home and family, and it...
12) Days of the dead
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Glorieta Magdalena Davis Espinosa is happy that Papi married Alice. She's happy that he can smile again after years of mourning Mamá. But the urn containing Mamá's ashes disappeared into a drawer the day Alice moved in. If everything about Glorieta's life is going to change, then she wants one thing to go her way: She wants to hear stories about her mamá when the family gathers on the last night of los Días de los Muertos. And that can only happen...
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Delight in the magic of Cinderella's timeless tale. With glass slippers and a fairy godmother, friendly mice and wicked stepsisters, this deluxe storybook retelling of the classic animated film is a treasure to behold." -- Page [4] of cover.
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