Everyone knows the glorious tale of Cinderella with the wicked stepmother and ugly stepsisters, but how do we know that is the true tale? In the book, "The Stepsister's Tale" by Tracy Barrett, you get to step through the looking glass and see the story from the eldest stepsister's point of view.
The book If you Find me by Emily Murdoch is about two girls who spent the better part of their life living in the woods with their mother. When their mother leaves and does not come back, the eldest girl, Carrey, is forced to take care of her younger sister, Jenessa on her own. Then, after a few months their father finds them and takes them home with him. The girls have the new challenge of adjusting to their new life of a new stepsister, stepmother and father that Carey has always been told hurt her and Jenessa. Carey tries to learn who she can trust with her
In this book, the main character, Nina, just got out of school for the summer. While she is lying in her backyard, she gets a feeling that she needs to do something good this summer. Nina then makes a plan of how she will complete her good things. This is how it works: she needs to do 65 good things, she needs to stay anonymous, and she needs to do one good things for each house/family in her culd-a-sac.
Burn Out by Kristi Helvig was an interesting tale about events after the end of the world. The sun has turned into a super giant thousands of years earlier than predicted leaving humans technologically bare.
This book is a fantasy novel. Gemma Hart has a secret that no one outside of her family can ever know. Gemma and the rest of her family are all time travelers.
Sera lives a pretty normal life. That is, if you count daily nightmares about demons, gods, and goddesses normal. After experiencing a weird heat on her back and shoulders, her world flips upside down and she learns that she is a reincarnation of a very powerful goddess. When she is marked by both realms, hell and heaven, she must decide her path. Along the way she realizes that other people around her might also be reincarnations or demons. Her goddesses are supposed to bring balance but she believes she can only bring chaos to the world.
As the end of summer closed in, Rain thought nothing could be worse than going back to school. When her beloved grandfather passes away suddenly her whole world is turned upside down. The day before her grandfather passed, he gave Rain a mysterious bracelet that now allows her to see ghosts. Rain drags her friend Charlie on an adventure that may answer all the unanswered questions. Throughout Rain’s struggles she learns more about herself and her family.
Sick of puppy love and “Relationship-Zombies?” Becca understands. She knows how easily relationships can change a person, especially after her sister was abandoned at the altar. Being an expert on the subject, Becca can end it. Taking on the title of “The Break-up Artist”, Becca saves Ashland High from “Relationship-Zombies.” A master of her craft, Becca sets each couple up for disaster. There isn’t any couple she can’t break; but when Becca receives an order for Ashland High’s favorite couple, Steve and Huxley, Becca gets nervous.
Awakening, by Lauren Ashely, is the story of how a quiet, average girl named Emma learns that she is not who she thinks she is. This story begins when a hot, new guy moves to town named Connor. Connor immediately takes interest on her and begins to hit on her. They begin to see each other and end up going to a lake with their friends. They move away from the rest of the group, and he gives her a gift, a bracelet with a little crystal in the middle. She thought was that it was a normal bracelet, until the jewel started to glow.
When eleven young schoolgirls traipse wonderingly from the gates of their school, each struggling to grasp the depth of a vast world beyond her reach, they do not for even a moment think to anticipate the dramatic event that will forever alter their lives.
