stepbrothers

Stepbrothers Phineas and Ferb try to help an alien creature they call Meap when he crash lands in their back yard, but, in the end, it is the boys' sister Candace and Meap who must save the day when an intergallactic villain takes Phineas, Ferb, and Isabella captive.

Phineas and Ferb are happy with their gelatin-filled swimming pool until Dr. Doofenshmirtz zaps it with his latest creation and brings it to life, leaving the boys to find a way to stop the giant jiggling monster.

Fifteen-year-old Christie and his older stepbrother, Danny, travel to the home and mysterious laboratory of the elder boy's scientist mother, where they learn a shocking truth about the nature of her experiments.

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.