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3) Cherry crush
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin
Description
Follows the fortunes of Cherry Costello as she moves from Scotland to Somerset for a new life with four new stepsisters and step-mum.
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Lizzie refuses to speak. She doesn't want to talk to Rory or Jake, her new stepbrothers, or Sam, their dad or even her mum. She?s totally fed up at having to join a new family and nothing can coax her into speaking to them. Not football, not pizza, not a new bedroom. That is, until she meets Great-Gran - a member of the new family who is even more stubborn than her - and has had a lot more practice!.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2020
Description
17-year-old vegan feminist Ellen Lopez-Rourke has one muggy Houston summer left before college. She plans to spend every last moment with her two best friends before they go off to the opposite ends of Texas for school. But when Ellen is grounded for the entire summer by her (sometimes) evil stepmother, all her plans are thrown out the window. Determined to do something with her time, Ellen (with the help of BFF Melissa) convinces her parents to let...
11) Cinderella
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
Description
A retelling of the favourite fairy tale in which a girl is saved from her life of drudgery by a fairy godmother and falls in love with a prince.
13) The big match
Author
Publisher
Watts
Pub. Date
2019
Description
A boy is torn when he has to choose between the football party his mum and step-dad have planned for him or to go with his dad to the big match he has bought tickets for.
14) Ride
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Recounts the unravelling of a teen's world as she returns home leaving her boyfriend behind as she feels that relationship with it's many problems is on a ruinous collision course.
15) Fortune cookie
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin
Description
As if the bombshell that he had three half-sisters wasn't enough, Jake's life in London is turning into a nightmare. He has nowhere to run - except for maybe his new family in Somerset. But Jake knows next to nothing about the Tanberrys. Will he be welcome there? And even if he is, can anyone really help him turn things around?
16) Two Summers
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Follows two potential paths in a girls love life as she spends her summer in New York in one, and France in the other.
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Ella's mum is in a deep coma, having just had a new baby. That means Ella has to live with Jack, her hopeless stepfather, and cope with her tiny newborn brother, as well as worrying about Mum. The only thing that's going right is her school project. It's all about whales and how they sing out to each other to attract a mate - sometimes for hours. Maybe a whale song could reach Mum, wherever she is, and bring her back to Ella and baby Samson. Surely...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2014
Description
When Stella is dumped at summer camp while her mum goes off on a posh honeymoon, things start badly. In the first few minutes she's mistaken for a boy and put in a room with snobby Louise and nasty Karen. Then she finds out she'll have to take dreaded swimming lessons, the one thing mum promised she wouldn't have to do. Can things get any worse?.
20) Clover Moon
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Description
Clover Moon's imagination is her best escape from a life of hardship in poverty-stricken Victorian London.