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81) Flower girl
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Nicki's favorite aunt is getting married, and Nicki is excited to be the Flower Girl: she is all in for love and pretty petals. But when the family goes shopping to find outfits for the wedding, Nicki doesn't feel like herself in any of the dresses her mom and aunt pick out for her, and all her happiness and excitement for the wedding evaporates. Nicki must find her voice--and her own style of expression to match it--to make Aunt Carmela's big day...
Author
Publisher
Cuento de Luz SL
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Auntie Maggie and her five nephews and nieces are off for a fun day at the pool. When they're together, nothing can go wrong, but... Oh no! Auntie Maggie can't go on carrying the weight of all their problems. If things continue like this, everyone will end up sinking to the bottom. A fun story about the importance of looking for solutions, and asking for help when we need it the most.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In England, newly pregnant seventeen-year-old Hattie and her gin-drinking great-aunt Gloria, who is in the early stages of dementia, set out together on a road trip of self-discovery--Gloria to finally confront the secrets of her past before they are wiped from her memory forever and Hattie to face the hard choices that will determine her future.
84) Chasing Redbird
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Zinnia Taylor uncovers family secrets and self truths while clearing a mysterious settler trail that begins on her family's farm in Kentucky.
85) Almost an outlaw
Author
Series
Teddy Mars volume 3
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When his strict great-aunt promotes rules that threaten the neighborhood pigeons, Teddy may have to bend a few rules to save them, even if it means teaming up with his pesky little brother, also known as The Destructor.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Every winter, a young girl flies to Haiti to visit her Auntie Luce, a painter. The moment she steps off the plane, she feels a wall of heat, and familiar sights soon follow - the boys selling water ice by the pink cathedral, the tap tap buses in the busy streets, the fog and steep winding road to her aunt's home in the mountains. The girl has always loved Auntie Luce's paintings - the houses tucked into the hillside, colorful fishing boats by the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Twins Arthur and Maudie set sail in their sky-ship to find noted explorer and author Ermitage Wrigglesworth, but their newly-discovered aunt, Eurora Vane, is also seeking him--and a secret he had just uncovered.--
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Zora grows up, she wants to be just like Aunt Bea. Aunt Bea is the best storyteller she knows! Every day after school, Zora heads to her aunt’s house, where they take out their family book and turn Aunt Bea’s kitchen into their stage. They raid Aunt Bea’s costume chest, filled with colorful garments from her acting days, and even do special voices to tell the stories of swimming coaches, Sunday preachers, World War II pilots, and more—all...
Author
Series
Harriet Bean mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her absent-minded inventor father suddenly remembers that he has five sisters, nine-year-old Harriet Bean, who has never heard of them before, determines to find her unknown aunts so that the unfinished family portrait can be completed.
90) Dark secrets: 1
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Legacy of lies: Megan wants nothing to do with the grandmother who disowned her parents and the children they adopted, but when her mother asks her to accept her grandmother's unexpected invitation, Megan visits the family's hometown and uncovers the strange secret that permeates her grandmother's house.
Don't tell: When Lauren comes home seven years after her famous mother's mysterious drowning, a series of nasty "accidents" makes her realize that...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
"Tía Isa quiere un carro brillante que sea del mismo color verde del océano ... Mientras tía Isa ahorra, su sobrina apila naranjas y alimenta gatos para sumar el dinero que gana a la pila. Así podrán comprar el carro perfecto-- ¡uno que pueda llevar a todos a la playa!"--Back cover.
Tía Isa and her niece try to save enough money to buy a car to take the whole family to the beach.
Author
Series
Kingdoms and empires volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Bronte is ten years old when she receives a letter saying that her long-absent parents have been killed by pirates, and the lawyers tell her that their will (reinforced with serious magic) requires her to deliver gifts to her ten other aunts (not Aunt Isabelle, whom she lives with), and to start the trip immediately and alone--but as she travels the kingdoms, she begins to suspect that there is more to this journey than delivering treasures, and that...
Author
Series
Witches of Brooklyn volume 1
Publisher
RH Graphic
Pub. Date
©[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"Effie moves to Brooklyn to live with her strange aunt and soon discovers that she might be a witch"--
Author
Series
Azaleah Lane volume 3
Publisher
Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Mama and Daddy are heading out of town, which means Azaleah and her sisters get to spend the weekend at Auntie Sam's. The girls can't wait for their special weekend! Azaleah even decides to bake cookies to surprise her parents when they return. But the cookies are a disaster! Azaleah is stumped. She's sure she did everything right. Can Azaleah get to the bottom of the cookie catastrophe before Mama and Daddy get back?
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Amateur detective Pepper Blouse, a rising seventh-grader, cannot resist investigating when her Great Aunt Florence passes away under mysterious circumstances, but strictly following her mother's Detective Rulebook may not be the best plan.--
96) Burned
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
It all started with a dream. Nothing exceptional, just a typical fantasy about a boy, the kind of dream that most teen girls experience. But Pattyn Von Stratten is not like most teen girls. Raised in a religious -- yet abusive -- family, a simple dream may not be exactly a sin, but it could be the first step toward hell and eternal damnation. This dream is a first step for Pattyn. But is it to hell or to a better life? For the first time Pattyn starts...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
Sisters Silla, seventeen, and Nori, four, are trapped in their aunt's cursed manor and can only escape with the help of a mysterious boy.
When Silla, seventeen, and Nori, four, arrive at their aunt's home, it's immediately clear that the manor is cursed. The creaking of the house and the stillness of the woods surrounding them would be enough of a sign, but there are secrets that Silla can't ignore. Who is the beautiful boy that's appeared from the...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When her dying aunt gives her a magical pocket watch, twelve-year-old Rosemary, as she begins to dream, enters a fantastical place where each hour of the watch takes her to a different world--until the class bully steals the watch, and Rosemary must gather the magic from all twelve worlds to rescue a boy she does not even like.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When Mabel's parents leave town without warning, she isn't worried. They're spies, after all. But when her beloved Aunt Gertie is arrested for leading a smuggling ring, then her obnoxious uncle Frank and aunt Stella show up, demanding to be let into the family's private museum, things begin to look fishy. Especially since Mabel hasn't heard from her parents in days. Tackling a mystery like this one is what she has been training for her whole life....
Author
Publisher
Andersen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"1945. War has ended, but for sisters Isobel and Flora the struggles still continue. They've lost their father and had their home destroyed in a bombing raid, and now they must go to live with their aunt and her awful husband Mr Godfrey in their ancestral home, Splint Hall. From the moment of their arrival it seems that this is a place shrouded in mysteries and secrets. Who are the strange men who arrive with packages at night? What is the source...
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