Step Families-What's Happening Series
- Karen Bryant-Mole

Published: 1993
Price: £8.99
Age Range: 5-12
ISBN: 0 7502 0499 0
Publisher: Walker
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
Step families answers many of the questions children ask when they find themselves part of a new family, with a step parent and step brothers and/or sisters. It helps to make sense of the confusion, anger and insecurity that sometimes surround this experience. Most of all the book is a message to those children who are wondering what is happening - You are not alone.

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My two families
- Althea

Published: 1996
Price: 7.99
Age Range: 0-12
ISBN: 0 7136 4542 3
Publisher: A & C Black
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
Judy, her sister Louisa and her step-brothers and step-sister tell us what it is like to belong to a stepfamily. They tell how to start with, things were difficult with everybody feeling uncomfortable and shy. But then they go on to tell how they all enjoy being part of a larger family and doing things together.

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French lessons
- Rachel Anderson

Published: 1988
Price: 6.95
Age Range: 10-Teenage
ISBN: 01927 1564 X
Publisher: Oxford-Eagle
In Print: No
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No
Ben and his sister fly to France for their father's wedding. "outstanding as a piece of teenage fiction"

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What am I doing in a stepfamily?
- Claire Berman

Published: 1982
Price: 6.99
Age Range: 0-12
ISBN: 0 207 14534 2
Publisher: Angus & Robertson
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes

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The not-so-wicked stepmother
- Lizi Boyd

Published: 1987
Price: 2.99
Age Range: 5-10
ISBN: 0140 54080
Publisher: Picture Puffin, Penguin
In Print: No
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No
Hessie's parents are divorced and her father has remarried. Hessie has strong views about stepmothers and is not looking forward to spending her summer holiday with her father and stepmother.

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The animal, the vegetable and John D. Jones
- Betsy Byars

Published: 1984
Price: 2.99
Age Range: 10-12
ISBN: 0140 31563 2
Publisher: Puffin
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No
Deanie and Clara had been looking forward to their summer holiday with their father until he announced that his girlfriend, and her son John D, would be sharing their beach house. The story of two families and how a near disaster brings them together.

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It's an aardvark eat turtle world
- Paula Danzinger

Published: 1988
Price: 2.99
Age Range: 10-12
ISBN: 03303 0375 9
Publisher: Piper
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
This book is about a girl named Rosie and her best friend Phoebe. Rosie's mum is divorced and so is Phoebe's dad. Soon, the two are in love and move into the same house. This arrangement is fine until Phoebe and Rosie both go to Canada and problems start to arise.

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Goggle eyes
- Anne Fine

Published: 1989
Price: 8.50
Age Range: 10-12
ISBN: 0241 12617 7
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No
Kelly Johnstone is miserable because her mother is thinking of getting married. Kitty makes things better when she candidly relates her experiences with "Goggle Eyes" - the man in her own mother's life. Winner of the 1989 Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal 1989.

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Let's talk about divorce
- Angela Grunsell

Published: 1990
Price: 7.99
Age Range: 10-12
ISBN: 07496 01582
Publisher: Aladdin Books
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No

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Best friends, worst luck
- Mary Hooper

Published: 1993
Price: £3.99
Age Range: 10-12
ISBN: 0 7445 3079 2
Publisher: Walker Books
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
When style-conscious, streetwsie Bev moves from London to the Somerset farm of her new stepfather, she takes a packing case, full of prejudices with her. Who will she and her older sister Adele find to talk to? How on earth will she manage without her best friend Sal?

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Instant sisters
- Rose Impey

Published:
Price: 4.95
Age Range: Teenage
ISBN: 18521 3170 5
Publisher: Orchard
In Print: No
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No
Two feuding teenages have to share a bedroom when one girl's father moves in with the other's mother.

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Other Colours
- Catherine Johnson

Published: 1997
Price: £4.99
Age Range: Teenage
ISBN: 0 7043 4945 0
Publisher: Livewire/Women's Press
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
Louise lives in Wales with her mum, stepdad and new baby brother. But she misses her old life with her mum and dad. She's just about the only black girl she ever meets in Wales, and now that her dad is dead, the whole of the rest of her family is white. Her stepdad doesn't try to understand, and she and her mum keep falling out. So Louise decides to run away.

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Plug
- Sian Lewis

Published:
Price: 8.99
Age Range: Teenage
ISBN: 0 86264 539 5
Publisher: Andesen Press
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
Catrin can always sense when Plug is in trouble and when Plug impulsively sets off for Manchester in search of her long-lost father, Catrin knows her friend is in danger.

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Lizzie's Leaving
- Joan Lingard

Published: 1995
Price: 9.99
Age Range: 10-Teenage
ISBN: 024113529X
Publisher: Penguin
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
Lizzie has grown up with her mother, step-father and step-sister. When her father invites her to stay, she jumps at the chance. Her step-mother's plans for her at different from her own and her father isn't quite the hero she thought he was.

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Strangers in the house
- Joan Lingard

Published: 1981
Price: 8.99
Age Range: 10-Teenage
ISBN: 0241 10671 0
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
In Print: No
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No

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The not-so-wicked-stepmother
- Peter Mathiessen

Published: 1989
Price: 2.99
Age Range: 5-10
ISBN:
Publisher:
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No

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Family Saturday
- Marjorie Newman

Published:
Price: 3.5
Age Range:
ISBN: 0242 12330 5
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
In Print: No
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No
Daniel and his dad move in with Janet and her daughter Lydia and now not only has he to learn to share his parent, but also share with another child. It takes an eventual and fraught Saturday before Daniel realises that families understand good temper and bad temper, and that feelings can be shared too.

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Andy's Big Question
- Carolyn Nystrom

Published: 1987
Price: 4.95
Age Range: 5-10
ISBN: 0745912702
Publisher: Lion
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
Andy lives in a big house with his adoptive parents, their 2 daughters and 3 other foster children. Andy is very happy in the family but there are times when he wishes he could live with his real mum again who, he is sure would not make him do his homework like his other parents do. This book tackles the sorts of questions asked by children that live with adopted families and also touches on various other issues concerning adoption.

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Rob's Plac
- e John Rowe

Published:
Price:
Age Range: 5-12
ISBN: 0140 32318 X
Publisher: Puffin
In Print: No
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No
Rob's mother remarries. He has a new baby half sister. His father lives some distance away and he can only visit on Saturdays. Rob's imagination takes him into a fantasy world, in which he is a hero.

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When Christmas comes
- Elizabeth Starr Hill

Published: 1990
Price: 7.99
Age Range: 10-12
ISBN: 03703 1478 6
Publisher: Bodley Head
In Print: No
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No
Callie moves with her dad, Tex, and his new wife, Fran, to Roadrunner Park. A gentle novel that explores Callie's adjustment to her mother leaving, a new life and a step-parent.

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The suitcase kid
- Jaqueline Wilson

Published: 1993
Price: 8.99
Age Range: 10-12
ISBN: 0385 401752
Publisher: Doubleday
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No