Blended Families

Here Today (Unabridged)

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In 1963, Eleanor Roosevelt Dingman's mother was crowned the Bosetti Beauty of Spectacle, New York, Ellie's classmates decided she was invisible, and President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

It was the year Ellie discovered that in trying to keep her life together, she had to let pieces of it go.

Author:

Ann M. Martin

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

790L

Length:

06:40

I wish somebody would stop stealing the good stuff out of my lunchbag. I guess I wish a lot of other things, too. I wish someday Dad and Bandit would pull up in front in the rig ... Dad would yell out of the cab, "Come on, Leigh. Hop in and I'll give you a lift to school."

Author:

Beverly Cleary

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

910L

Length:

01:45

Sarah, Plain and Tall (Unabridged)

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"I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall." A heartwarming story about two children, Anna and Caleb, whose lives are changed forever when their widowed papa advertises for a mail-order bride. Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton from Maine answers the ad and agrees to come for a month.

Author:

Patricia MacLachlan

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

560L

Length:

01:02

Forever Amber Brown (Unabridged)

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Amber's life has changed dramatically: her parents are divorced, her father lives in France, her best friend has moved to another state, and now her mother must decide whether to remarry.

Author:

Paula Danziger

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

660L

Length:

01:06

I, Amber Brown (Unabridged)

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Amber Brown loves the holidays. The shopping, the wrapping, the unwrapping. She isn't having any trouble with gifts, but life is another story. She's so happy her dad has moved back to New Jersey, but her mom isn't. It means the beginning of shared custody, and that means more fighting.

Author:

Paula Danziger

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

600L

Length:

01:53

Blended Families

Here Today (Unabridged)

Dear Mr. Henshaw (Unabridged)

Sarah, Plain and Tall (Unabridged)

Forever Amber Brown (Unabridged)

I, Amber Brown (Unabridged)