Sixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, must move from Chicago to "The Valley," with a new stepfamily but no new friends until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's treacherous social waters.

"A very smart, soulful, compelling, elegantly written domestic novel about a wedged-together family, and what can go wrong when teenage children decide they have minds (and hormones) of their own." —Nick Hornby 
“A spry and accomplished comedy of manners.” —The New York Times Book Review

“They've chosen the one thing that will make our family life impossible....

When to discipline and when to stay out of it. How to keep your marriage strong when the kids are testing its foundations. Techniques for taking good care of yourself when the kids act disrespectfully. How to respond when the kids experience very different parenting in the other home. Tips for responding to a former spouse who tries to micromanage your parenting. And much, much more! -- Amazon.

It's a modern and enchanting twist on an enduring classic! Katie dreams of being a recording artist but is continually thwarted by her cruel stepmother and stepsister. When Katie falls hard for Luke, the new boy at her Performing Arts school, she tries to get his attention with her singing. But when her stepsister takes credit for Katie's amazing voice and Luke falls for the wrong girl, Katie must learn to stand up for her dreams.

Alliana spends her days tending to her stepfamily's inn at the edge of the abyss, but when she rescues an orphaned nightdragon and later helps an apprentice witch, she seizes her chance to escape her stepmother's tyranny and find her own happily ever after.

While visiting her father, stepmother and their children, Karen spies on the lady next door because she thinks Mrs. Porter is a witch.

A novel-in-verse about sixteen-year-old Ali's reluctant road trip with her stepmother and new baby sister, and the terror that ensues after they end up lost in the snow-covered woods.

When Coast Guard commander Frank Beardsley bumps into his old high school flame Helen North, sparks fly again, and the two quickly marry. Complications arrive when it comes time to merge their two families. Frank has 8 kids and Helen has 10 kids. With Frank looking to keep tight military control over the brood, and Helen preferring her loving, hippy-like ways of encouragement, the two struggle to maintain a family and home where the kids don't like...

Eleven-year-old Taylor spends the summer with her father and his new family in a historic house and, while contending with hostility from her stepsister Nicole, attempts to solve the mystery of ghosts who haunt the site.

While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, sixteen-year-old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father's new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest.