stepmothers

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The smoky corridor

2011
With the help of his stepmother, his dog Zipper, and new friend Malik, Zack Jennings faces ghosts and zombies at his new middle school, which is said to house a lost Confederate treasure.

Snow in Summer

Recasts the tale of Snow White, setting it in West Virginia in the 1940s with a stepmother who is a snake-handler.

Annie and Snowball and the wedding day

the thirteenth book of their adventures
Annie loves living next to her cousin Henry, and her bunny, Snowball, and his dog, Mudge, get along, too. One thing is missing, however--Annie knows her dad needs someone to love, and she needs a new mommy. Soon enough Annie's dad meets a new woman, and wedding bells are about to ring.

Snow White

an Islamic tale
2013
After Snow White's parents die she finds herself alone with a stepmother who begins to plot against her.

Boy, snow, bird

African-American Boy Novak marries into a family of light-skinned African Americans passing for white, raising issues of racism and identity for herself, her daughter, and step-daughter.

Rescue

a novel
1999
Paige Austin, painfully aware that she will never have children, is excited when her husband's teenage son Malachi comes to live with them, but although Paige and Mal bond quite quickly, the troubled boy needs more attention than she alone is able to give--a fact everyone learns when it is almost too late.

Snow White

1995
The classic fairy tale retold in a Native American setting in which White Snow flees from her wicked step-mother, Sly Fox, and stays with seven short turquoise miners.

Como una alondra

1996
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.

Cinderella III

a twist in time
2007
In this graphic novel, the evil Stepmother comes into possession of the Fairy Godmother's magic wand and reverses time in order to replace Cinderella with Anastasia. With the Prince under a spell, it's up to Cinderella and her animal friends to stop the Prince before he marries Anastasia.

Almost home

a novel
2005
After years of being shuffled from town to town and back and forth between her divorced parents, twelve-year-old Leah, now living permanently with her father and stepmother, finds it difficult to adjust to her new situation and the circumstances that made it possible.

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