remarriage

Eighteen-year-old Cricket, having decided to take a break from her long-time boyfriend to sort out her love life, spends a week preparing for her mother's wedding and finds her life getting even more complicated by stepsisters who are against the marriage, a family secret revealed by her grandfather, the arrival of her mom's soon-to-be husband's ex, and feelings for a sweet and sexy guy she just met.

Suffering a hangover from a graduation party, eighteen-year-old Whitley is blindsided by the news that her father has moved into a house with his fianc?e, her thirteen-year-old daughter Bailey, and her son Nathan, in whose bed Whitley had awakened that morning.

In 1936, fourteen-year-old Nissa takes a stand against racial prejudice and for her own integrity and independence, drawing on the support of her individualistic mother, her father, stepmother, and some of the inhabitants of their Louisiana town.

Although it was her idea to bring together her family and that of a neighboring widow woman to reap the harvest, Elvirey feels her heart "squeeze tight" at the thought of the widow and her Pap getting married.

Nine-year-old Amber is nervous and excited about her mother's wedding to Max, but Amber's father makes things complicated.

A year and a half after her mother dies, Liza finds her life further complicated when her father remarries and she has a stepbrother she adores and a stepsister she hates.

The first Christmas after their mother dies is especially difficult when nine-year-old Jenny receives a message and a gift from Momma and writes her a letter.

Samantha, a middle child who envies certain qualities in her older brother and younger sister, discovers her mother is planning to remarry and schemes to prevent it.

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

When her mother remarries, an eleven-year-old learns that she can love her stepfather and her real father at the same time.