If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince? / Melissa Kantor / 283 pages

I had to read this book our of curiosity.  It was mentioned as the YA book discussion selection in Death of a Bookstore Babe at Scumble River's new bookstore.  Lucy Norton does have a stepmother, Mara, and two stepsisters who aren't very nice to her.  Her mother died of cancer when Lucy was only three.  Lucy is often left alone with her stepmother and stepsisters because her father is working on a big case in California and they are in Long Island.  Lucy is once again the new kid at school...and, oh yes...she lives in the basement.  You cannot help but empathize with this hapless Cinderella and her unlikely Prince Charming.