In seventeenth-century London, Meg, who has little interest in cooking, needlework, or other homemaking skills, dreams of becoming a bookseller and someday inheriting her widowed father's book store.
Follows Milo from fifth grade, when his mother and philosopher father get divorced, through tenth grade, when his mother has married a wealthy businessman and Milo is still a bit of a loner, looking for the meaning of life.
The Runaway Clown (Adventures of the Northwoods (Mott Media Paperback), #8) (Adventures of the Northwood, #8)
by Lois Walfrid Johnson
While working for the circus that is touring Wisconsin in 1907, Kate and her stepbrother Anders uncover a mystery.
"Dragging my book bag down Quince Road on my way back from school, I couldn't help wondering what I might find once I got home. The things in our house were shifting under the hands of Papa's new wife, Lara. I'd go to bed knowing everything in the parlor was snug in its place, then come morning, I'd head downstairs only to discover that the room had changed identities while I slept." Ever since Nissa Bergen's father Ivar remarried, Nissa has felt like a stranger in her own home, clinging to her...
Cinderella (Classics Illustrated Junior, #3) (Fairy Tales)
by Charles Perrault
In her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect, Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper. The illustrations set the story in 1920s London.
Like so many children from divorced families, Jessica finds herself dealing with the pressures and anger that come when both her mother and father remarry and she has two whole new families to live with, each with different rules. She feels angry because nothing is like how it was before. Her new step-parents set down rules that feel unfair, and her new step-siblings don't seem to want her around. Jessica feels lonely because her mother spends time with her new husband, Mike, and her father is...
Syah Walker is in an all-out war with her stepsister, Keelah. Keelah is jealous of all the attention Syah receives for her MindLink skills as a peer counsellor at Emdaria North Secondary School. After Keelah tricks Syah into missing a counselling session, Syah retaliates, and the pranks turn cruel. The two girls are soon forced into a MindLink session and ordered to work out their differences. Inside Keelah's mind, Syah must journey through a fairytale-like mindscape to find her stepsister insid...
Karen's New Year (Baby-sitters Little Sister, #14) (Babysitters Little Sister, #14)
by Ann M Martin
Charlie does not like the new man in her mother's life, so she escapes from the strained relationships at home by immersing herself in her school project about a Victorian servant girl. Jacqueline Wilson is an award-winning children's author.
Four youngsters, ages nine to fifteen, narrate one side of the story of their newly blended family's adjustment, interwoven with grief and loss.
One stormy night, five stranded schoolchildren uncover the story of Richard Clayton Harwick a boy who many years ago learned what it was like to have a truly wicked stepfather. But the children have stories of their own step-parents to tell stories that have warmth and humour, as well as sadness, and a fair share of happy endings. For children who have some similar experience, this novel will be therapeutic; for those who haven t it s an absorbing read, to make them laugh and cry Sunday Telegrap...