remarriage

Mitzi isn't sure she wants her mother to marry Walter, whose younger son is a three-year-old genius who thinks he is a dinosaur.

When his widowed mother meets a man she wants to marry, thirteen-year-old Bernie decides he will go to live with his grandfather in Florida rather than live in the house with his new stepfather.

Katy is not looking forward to the changes that her mother's marriage will bring.

Bo learns about kindness, love, loyalty, appearances, and pretense from the unusual characters he meets when he is sent to live with his father after his mother decides to remarry.

Louie goes out looking for a new father and instead finds a music box which he is accused of stealing. Or is that all he finds?.

Mallory's two best friends' parents are getting married, and Mallory fears that she will become a third wheel when Mary Ann and Joey become stepbrother and stepsister.

After her mother dies, Marianne becomes a daydreamer and begins to fall behind in her schoolwork.