When a child's parent remarries, that child gains a new parent, and often, new siblings. This can be a wonderful thing, but it can also come with its own unique set of challenges. This informative volume is designed to help readers navigate and learn from these challenges. Relatable stories are presented through the use of colorful illustrations and accessible text that readers of all ages will benefit from. This book is an essential addition to any...

Marissa Cortez Wilson has it all: married to a famous spy-hunting television reporter, with a new baby and intelligent twin step kids, Rebecca and Cecil. When maniacal Timekeeper disrupts her domestic bliss, threatening to take over the planet, Marissa comes out of retirement as a top secret agent. With Armageddon quickly approaching, Rebecca and Cecil are thrust into action!

The conflicts never end as two mismatched families are joined by marriage, but it's just a matter of time and patience before the kids accept the new arrangement. In the meantime, they will all have to take each day step by step.

After Sarah's dad remarries, he and her stepmom decide to take the whole family on a special vacation in order to break the ice and have everyone get to know one another. They'll fly to Tahiti, charter a boat, and go sailing for a few days. It'll be an adventure, right? Wrong. Dead wrong.

Fifteen years ago, English teacher Vida Avery arrived alone and pregnant at the elite Fayer Academy. Living on the campus off the coast of New England, she worked to become a beloved fixture of the school-and to shelter herself and her son, Peter, from a painful secret she left behind. Then she accepts the impulsive marriage proposal of ardent widower Tom Belou, and the prescribed life Vida has constructed begins to come apart. As Peter bonds with...

When her husband dies at his surprise party, Tess gets a bigger shock when she learns he had a secret family. Now she and her uptight daughter, Cathy, must get to know playful Marilyn and her daughter, Cat.

Explores the hard-won truths and often harder-to-overcome difficulties of coping with the members of stepfamilies--with present and former husbands and wives, and above all, with other people's children.

Two mismatched single parents fall in love, marry and move in together with all their kids. Now, they hope it's only a matter of time until they all come to love their new life.

"Nobody cuts deeper than family... Noah Alderman, a doctor and a widower, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie, and for the first time in a long time he and his son are happy. But their lives are turned upside down when Maggie's daughter Anna moves in with them. Anna is a gorgeous seventeen-year-old who balks at living under their rules though Maggie, ecstatic to have her daughter back, ignores the red flags that hint at the trouble that is brewing....

Here's the story of America's grooviest TV sitcom family! Marcia's on the trail of Davy Jones of The Monkees; Jan is weary of the constant comparisons to her older sibling ("Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!"); and Cindy just wants a boy to call her own. Across the hallway, Greg's new car is less than cool; Peter channels Humphrey Bogart (among others) while undergoing an image makeover; and little Bobby hates being just that - "little" - until he saves the...