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English
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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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Language
English
Description
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. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
Author
Series
Grimmtastic girls volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Worried that her stepmother may be a member of the E.V.I.L. society, Snow White joins her friends to stop the society's plans to destroy Grimm Academy, but her bad luck seems to be jinxing all of their efforts.
7) Skylark
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In this modern version of Snow White, Eira Blanc escapes when her stepmother tries to have her killed, and find herself taken in by seven thieves who agree to help her in her plan to take down the Wicked Witch of the West Side.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"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...
10) Lies like poison
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Language
English
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Three years after one secretly backed out of a plot to kill Raven's abusive stepmother, former friends Poppy, Lily, and Belladonna are drawn back together when one of them is arrested for the stepmother's murder.
Poppy, Lily, and Belladonna would do anything to protect their best friend, Raven. When they discovered he was suffering abuse at the hands of his stepmother, they came up with a lethal plan: petals of poppy, belladonna, and lily in her...
11) Nissa's Place
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A thirteen-year-old girl in Depression-era Louisiana grapples with her mother moving to Chicago, her father remarrying, and finding where she belongs.
Ever since Nissa Bergen's father Ivar remarried, Nissa has felt like a stranger in her own home, clinging to her memories of her free-spirited mother, Heirah Rae, who moved to Chicago to escape the conformity of small-town Louisiana. To make matters worse, Nissa's not ready for the physical changes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Wicked Stepmother wants to do something to help people and make amends for her past. But trying to find the right job proves tricky, until the Terrible Ogre gives her an idea.
13) Court of swans
Author
Series
Dericott tale volume 1
Language
English
Description
England, 1381. Delia's quiet life as the daughter of an earl is shattered when her seven brothers are betrayed by their father and falsely arrested for treason and murder. With the Peasants' Revolt threatening the peace of the kingdom, King Richard II is executing anyone who poses a threat to his throne. Delia infiltrates the palace as a seamstress for the new queen so she can be near her brothers. She discovers Sir Geoffrey, the guard captain who...
Author
Series
Squishy Taylor volume 5
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Now that Squishy has been living with her father in Melbourne for some time she has grown close to her "bonus" sisters, the twins Vee and Jesse, but she is still not sure about their mom, her father's new wife. Squishy is newly fixated on astronauts and space travel, and she has a new mystery to solve: who is the "spacewoman" across the street, why is she building a rocket on the roof of her apartment building, and how are they going to get through...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperChildren's Audio
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall," Sarah writes Papa. And so begins the journey for Sarah, Papa, Anna and Caleb in Patricia MacLachlan's masterpiece, Sarah, Plain and Tall. In Skylark, a drought turns the land dry and brown and Sarah takes Anna and Caleb back to the city as Papa stays behind. Will the family ever be reunited? Caleb's Story continues the saga of Sarah and her family on the prairie. All the beloved...
16) Ninja-rella
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Cinderella's stepmother and two stepsisters treat her like dirt. Each and every day, they force her to clean their clothes, cook their meals, and only give her rags to wear and crumbs to eat. But each night, in secret and in shadows, Cinderella trains to be a ninja! More than anything, Cinderella yearns to become the Prince's personal bodyguard. When the opportunity to prove her worth to the Prince finally arrives in the form of an invitation to a...
Author
Series
Six crimson cranes volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
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...
18) Cinderella
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After her father's death, young Ella does not give into despair when she is made a servant by her stepmother and stepsisters and soon finds what she thinks is a kindred soul when she befriends a handsome stranger in the woods, unaware that he is the Prince.
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