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62) Cinderella
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
"Cinderellla is a young, kind, and diligent girl who is forced to work as a servant in her own home by her wicked stepmother and her two evil stepsisters. But she dreams of what could be, and makes the best of everything with her animal friends. When the entire kingdom is invited to a royal ball, Cinderella's cruel stepmother prevents her from attending. Luckily, Cinderella's Fairy Godmother appears with her magic, and Cinderellla will go to the ball...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
The hillbilly-turned-Manhattanite at the center of Breakfast at Tiffany's shares not only the author's philosophy of freedom but also his fears and anxieties. Other Voices, Other Rooms begins as thirteen-year-old Joel Knox, after losing his mother, is sent from New Orleans to rural Alabama to live with his estranged father--who is nowhere to be found.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"From award-winning novelist Idra Novey comes a "deft and surprising novel" with two unforgettable female voices. (Rumaan Alam) Set in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania, Take What You Need follows the estrangement and reconciliation of stepmother and daughter, Jean and Leah. Leah always felt her path diverged from Jean's and left her hometown without looking back, making a life for herself in the city as a young mother and academic. Now that...
65) Snow
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Snow, the daughter of a Welsh duke, takes refuge in London with a group of urban outcasts after her new stepmother tries to kill her, but Snow soon learns she is going to have to take charge of her own destiny when it becomes apparent her stepmother is not going to give up.
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Description
In a modern version of the Snow White fairy tale, eighteen-year-old Bella is plagued by a series of mysterious accidents while singing with a small band in London and Paris during her summer break from school, and believes them to be caused by her jealous, malevolent stepmother.
69) Touch
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Ninth-grader Maisie's concepts of friendship, loyalty, self-acceptance, and truth are tested to their limit after a schoolbus incident with the three boys who have been her best friends since early childhood.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Stepmother tells the story of Marianne Lile, who met a man, fell in love, got married, and arrived home from the honeymoon with a new label: stepmom. It was a role she initially embraced--but she quickly discovered she was alone in a difficult situation, with no handbook and no mentor. Here, Lile describes the complexities of the stepmom position, in a family and in the community, and shares her experience wearing a tag that is often misunderstood...
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
"When Rose's mother dies, her only comfort is the exquisite rose garden her mother left behind. The purple blossoms serve as an assurance of her mother's love. But Rose is dealt a second blow when her father dies and his greedy widow, Ombrine, and her daughter, Desirě, move in and take over the manor in true Cinderella fashion. Fate has been cruel to Ombrine and Desirě, too. So despite their harsh ways, Rose has compassion. But these feelings are...
Author
Series
Tales from Goswell volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When Annabelle moves in, Ellen Tyson's idyllic village life is derailed. Annabelle is her husband Alex's teenage daughter from his first marriage. 17 years old, surly and defiant, Annabelle has no interest in being part of her father's second family. When a death certificate from the 1870s, hidden beneath the floorboards of their attic, is discovered during a renovation, Ellen tries to use it as a way to get closer to Annabelle. But as both women...
75) Alice on her way
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 17
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Alice is adjusting to her new stepmother, her brother's new apartment, her ex-boyfriend, and getting a driver's license.
78) Snow White
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013
Description
A princess takes refuge from her wicked stepmother in the forest cottage of seven dwarfs. Includes a "ready to tell" section that asks children to rearrange scrambled episodes from the story and retell it, a picture dictionary of key words, a related activity, and notes for adults that provide background on the story and suggestions for encouraging children to read and discuss.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Can Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter defeat Levana and find their happily ever afters? Fans will not want to miss this thrilling conclusion to Marissa Meyer's national bestelling Lunar Chronicles series.Princess Winter has grown up in the shadow of her wicked stepmother - Lunar Queen Levana - and has seen first-hand the pain and suffering that is caused when her fellow Lunars abuse their powers of mind control. Therefore she's made the decision...
80) Como una alondra
Author
Pub. Date
c1996
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.