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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Truman sends away the coupon for an ant farm given as a birthday gift by his Aunt Fran, he gets more than he bargained for when aunts start showing up and he must train them all.
Author
Series
Seasons of the heart volume 1
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Joshua is an orphan who lives in an unusual family where his eighteen-year-old aunt also acts as his mother.
7) Housekeeping
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, grow up first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West is the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. Lucille begins to resist...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Barbara Cleverly, bestselling author of the Joe Sandilands series, introduces an ingenious new sleuth who navigates 1920s Cambridge, a European intellectual capital on the cusp of dramatic change. Great Britain, 1923: Detective Inspector John Redfyre is a godsend to the Cambridge CID. A handsome young veteran bred among the city's educated elite, he is no stranger to the set running its esteemed colleges and universities--a society that previously...
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bernard loves his aunts--but he's not so keen on their squeaky-sweet-hello kisses or their sneaky-on-the-nose kisses. He tells them "No more kisses!", and he means it.
11) Jamaica Inn
Author
Language
English
Description
The coachman tried to warn young Mary Yellan away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coast. But May chose instead to honor her mother's dying request that she join her frightened Aunt Patience and foreboding Uncle Joss Merlyn at Jamaica Inn. From her first glimpse on that raw November eve, she could sense the inn's dark power. Mary never imagined that she would become hopelessly ensnared in the vile, villainous schemes being...
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Judy's big plans for the summer seem ruined when two of her best friends go away, and then her parents leave her and Stink with Aunt Opal, but a new "thrill-a-delic" plan has her racing toward fun.
14) Wedding flowers
Author
Series
Cobble Street cousins volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old cousins Lily, Rosie, and Tess return to their aunt's house on Cobble Street to help her plan the perfect wedding.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Passion, redemption, and a battered old suitcase full of secrets: the New York Times-bestselling author of A Hundred Summers returns with another engrossing tale of lost love and female ambition that crosses generations. Manhattan, 1964. Vivian Schuyler, newly graduated from Bryn Mawr College, has recently defied the privilege of her storied old Fifth Avenue family to do the unthinkable for a budding Kennedy-era socialite: break into the Mad Men...
18) The forgotten
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
After he receives a posthumous note from his aunt hinting that things are horribly amiss in her Florida Gulf Coast town, Army Special Agent John Puller uncovers a shocking conspiracy.
Author
Series
American girls collection Kit 1934 volume 4
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On a visit to Cincinnati from rural Kentucky during the Great Depression, Aunt Millie impresses Kit with her money-saving cleverness. Includes information on life in America during the Great Depression.
20) The king of bees
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Henry is fascinated by the bees his Aunt Lilla cares for and he would love to help, but she says he must wait until he is older.--Provided by Publisher.
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