stepbrothers

Phineas, Ferb, and Candace find themselves running for their lives after a time machine sends them back to the Jurassic period, while Isabella and the Fireside girls work to get the trio home before their parents find out they are gone.

Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers.

"Will has always been troubled by his short stature, but on his 16th birthday, he starts to grow--and grow, and grow"--Provided by publisher.

Will has always been troubled by his short stature, but on his 16th birthday, he starts to grow--and grow, and grow.

"While eleven-year-old Maddie McMatthew's stepbrother Holden has been a little more tolerable since their first adventure, at the Halloween party he breaks another fairy tale by saying Beauty would never have fallen for the ugly Beast--and once again the two children find themselves sucked into another story and faced with having to set things right if they want to get home"--Provided by publisher.

"Maddie's birthday party has an Aladdin theme, but when her stepbrother's separate birthday gets ruined, and he does not get the hoverboard he craves, he deliberately alters the Aladdin story, sucking both of them into the world of the fairy tale--and while he gets to be Aladdin and find the genie, Maddie is stuck as a camel"--Provided by publisher.

Maddie McMatthews is convinced that her new stepbrother, Holden, is the worst sibling ever, especially after he ruins her class presentation on the fairy tale Cinderella with his snide questions--but when the two eleven-year-olds are sucked into that fairy tale, they have to work together to restore a happy ending if they want to get home.

While trying to jumpstart the zombie apocalypse, twelve-year-old Ernestine Montgomery and her new stepbrother, Charleston, stumble upon a murder mystery in the retirement apartments where their parents do maintenance.

"Maddie is starring in her school's production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, so she is glad that her annoying stepbrother is visiting his father and not there to mess up another fairy tale--except it turns out that Germany is not far enough away to prevent the malicious fairy Resplenda from working her curse on the two step-siblings, and they must bring about a reconciliation between the Wicked Queen and her victims"--Provided by publisher.

Maddie McMatthews is convinced that her new stepbrother, Holden, is the worst sibling ever, especially after he ruins her class presentation on the fairy tale Cinderella with his snide questions--but when the two eleven-year-olds are sucked into that fairy tale, they have to work together to restore a happy ending if they want to get home.