aunts

Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up.

Rather than go to a spiritual retreat in Oregon with her mother and brother, eleven-year-old Frances insists on staying in Ohio with her odd aunt, but she soon begins to worry that the retreat may really be a cult.

Plectrude, a young girl in Paris whose mother killed her father over his mediocre taste in baby names and then killed herself, enters a prestigious ballet school and, at once indulged and pressured by her guardian aunt, becomes anorexic in her attempt to become the best and, as her mother wished, live an extraordinary life.

Thirteen-year-old Cissy must discover what family means to her as she is caught in a struggle between her aunt and mother in Depression-era Colorado.

Maisie Voyager used to explore the world with her parents but is living a "normal" life with Aunt Hetty when strangers appear, cryptic messages are left, and Aunt Hetty is kidnapped, leaving Maisie to try to rescue her aunt and her parents as well.

In 1937, when LaMarr's glamorous mother is lost in a plane crash and she goes to live with her aunt and uncle, it takes the thirteen-year-old some time to reconcile herself to the idea that her mother has not gone to Hollywood to become a movie star.

Claudine's father creates an angel that looks like her dead mother and then a series of angel sculptures that take on a special significance for her when she goes to live with her aunt after her father's death.

When two sisters go to see their aunt, she tells them stories about her adventures as a young girl visiting her grandparents in the mountains.

Twelve-year-old Carey is unhappy about being sent on a trip to Kenya with his wacky Aunt Elaine, until he encounters fascinating customs, endangered animals, and wild adventures.

After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.