aunts

Orphaned by the death of their parents and bereft by the sudden death of their older brother Tom, nine-year-old Frances and three-year-old Henry are comforted by Tom's ghost, who helps them in difficult situations at home with their aunt and uncle and at school.

Having to share her home with her demanding and devious aunt from India makes it all the more difficult for fifteen-year-old Sang to deal with such things as her parents thinking she is too young to date, getting less than perfect grades, and being shut out by her long-time best friend.

Spending the summer in Florida with her stepfather's sister who operates a "meals-on-wheels" van, twelve-year-old Chlo and her aunt become involved in a controversy surrounding the wearing of T-back bathing suits.

To escape his problems at school and at home, Nick, who prefers walking to automobile travel, hikes to his aunt's cabin in hopes of spending the summer there.

A young girl and her favorite aunt share the excitement of planning a very special car trip for just the two of them.

Mara's niece, who is only one year younger, moves in, bringing conflict between the two teenagers because of their opposite personalities.

When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.

As they get older, several sisters decide that they must kidnap children and bring them to their secluded island home to help with the work of caring for an assortment of unusual sea creatures.

After making her girlhood dreams of world travel and living by the sea come true, a retired librarian follows her grandfather's old advice of doing something to make the world more beautiful, and then passes that wisdom on to her grandniece.

In 1946 Mandy feels trapped on her stern Aunt Bess's northern Ohio sheep farm, but as time goes on she finds herself getting involved with helping to tend the sheep.