aunts

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aunts

Shattered

a daughter's regret
2011
Seventeen-year-old Cleo, feeling guilty that her choices played a role in her mother's murder, seeks refuge in prescription medication until her Aunt Kellie helps her to tell the truth and find some perspective.

Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter

2007
Mario's romance with and marriage to his divorced Aunt Julia provides the main plot, while his friend, soap opera scriptwriter Pedro Camacho, provides the counterpoint of this comedic tale of Lima in the 50s.

Prairie school

story
2001
In 1880, Noah's aunt teaches the reluctant nine-year-old how to read as they explore the Colorado prairie together, Noah pushing Aunt Dora in her wheelchair.

Seven kisses in a row

2006
Emma learns to accept "different strokes for different folks" when her aunt and uncle come to take care of her and her brother.

Mixed-up Sam

1989
Sam lives in a mixed-up house and one day Aunt Edna comes to visit and cleans everything up. Then Sam cannot find a thing.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

1988
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.

Uncle Pat and Auntie Pat

2007
While spending summer vacation on Uncle Pat and Auntie Pat's financially-strapped farm, a child finds a way to generate more income after consulting the wishing well.

Home before dark

1993
When Sara moves from Los Angeles to a small town in Ohio to live with her aunt and uncle, she is stalked by a killer.

Little ballet star

2008
Tilly is thrilled when she gets to see her aunt perform in the ballet, "The Sleeping Beauty," especially because she gets to go backstage and even on the stage itself.

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