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Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
When she sees how much her little brother and young stepbrother and stepsister want to play softball, thirteen-year-old Kristy starts her own team, which makes up in spirit what it lacks in skill.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters little sister. Main series volume 26
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Karen and her class find a duck outside their classroom, they get to witness the hatching of her eggs and to help take care of the ducklings.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 31
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Dawn and Mary Anne are good friends, but when they become stepsisters, their relationship undergoes some changes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
A fairy godmother-in-training is sent to help angry seventeen-year-old Tansy, who reluctantly is staying with her father and his new wife while her mother and sister are travelling, but the unfortunate result of this intended help is chaos and confusion.
8) Fade to us
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Brooke's summer is going to be epic-- having fun with her friends and a job that lets her buy a car. Then her new stepfather announces his daughter is moving in. Brooke has always longed for a sibling, so she's excited about spending more time with her stepsister. But she worries, too. Natalie has Asperger's-- and Brooke's not sure how to be the big sister that Natalie needs..."--Front jacket flap.
10) Cinder
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Description
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
In this evocative and heartwarming novel for readers who loved The Thing About Jellyfish, the author of I Can Make This Promise tells the story of a Native American girl struggling to find her joy again. It's been a hard year for Maisie Cannon, ever since she hurt her leg and could not keep up with her ballet training and auditions. Her blended family is loving and supportive, but Maisie knows that they just can't understand how hopeless she feels....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Deaf sixth-grader Macy struggles with resentment as her mother sells their house and prepares to add a stepfather and twin stepsisters to their family. Helping an elderly neighbor who is also preparing to move turns from a chore to an escape as Iris finds ways to communicate with Macy and shares stories that inspire the girl to look at life in new ways."--Provided by publisher.
14) Wedgie & Gizmo
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
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).
15) The Steps
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Over Christmas vacation, Annabel goes from her home in Manhattan to visit her father, his new wife, and her half- and step-siblings in Sydney, Australia.
16) Boundless Grace
Author
Series
Amazing Grace (Picture books) volume 2
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Grace is invited for a visit with her father and his new family in Africa.
17) Survivors
Author
Series
Stranded. Original series volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Trapped for eleven days on a deserted island, Jane, Buzz, Carter and Vanessa must venture deeper into the jungles of the island, where they discover a secret and find danger at every turn.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 24
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Kristy and the Baby-sitters Club plan a huge outing as a Mother's Day surprise for their clients, while Kristy's mother and stepfather have a surprise of their own in store for their family.
20) Cinder
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle. Also includes a prequel story.