Contains two stories in which Snow White and her stepmother provide their accounts of what really happened in the classic fairy tale, with Snow White claiming she was mistreated by her stepmother, and the queen saying she was just concerned for Snow White's health and safety.

Sarah Robinson is deeply troubled in the wake of her dad's second marriage. She now has to deal with a new stepmom and two stepbrothers, Marco, who is her age, and Nacho, who's younger. Even though they've all moved from Texas to California to start life as a new, blended family, none of the kids seem remotely happy about it. Sarah's dad and stepmom then decide to take the whole family on a special vacation in order to break the ice and have everyone...

"Annie loves living with her dad and her bunny, Snowball. But she wants her dad to find someone to love. Then he meets a woman named Martha. Soon it is time for a wedding!"--

When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.

Thirteen-year-old Sherry helps her mother, a ghost, to investigate who is stalking Sherry's stepmother, but Sherry is also very busy with school and friends, while her mother is also striving for a gold medal in the Ghostlympics.

In this variation of the traditional Baba Yaga story, a young girl must rely on the advice of her dead mother and her special doll when her wicked stepmother sends her to get a needle from Grandma Chickenlegs.

Hildy Corrigan, 12, came home one day to find that her stepmother had taken her brother and 4 sisters and left Hildy alone. Angry and determined, Hildy refuses to stay with her backwoods granny and runs off with her cousin Ruby to find her family. Granny sends an evil mountain hunter on their track, determined to have Hildy to herself, and Hildy despairs of keeping her promise to her siblings to never let them be separated.

"It's one challenge after another for 10-year-old John Avery Whittaker! He tinkers with electronics, takes on the lead in the school Christmas play, and comes up against a new bully, all while continuing to investigate the mysterious properties of the cloth from his grandfather's trunk - if he can find it! It's missing! Meanwhile, strangers have come to Provenance and they're askings lots of suspicious questions about the Confederate gold Johnny and...

In Including Alice, fifteen-year-old Alice finds it hard to adjust to the changes in her life when her father gets married and her brother moves to his own apartment. In Alice on her way, Alice is adjusting to her new stepmother, her brother's new apartment, her new boyfriend, and getting a driver's license. In Alice in the know, during the summer before junior year, Alice, while working at the local department store, must deal with a friend being...