aunts

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aunts

When Aunt Lena did the rhumba

1997
When her aunt, who loves Broadway musicals, is confined to bed with a sprained ankle, Sophie convinces the rest of the family to put on a show for her.

A ghost in the family

1998
While visiting his friend Jeannie's eccentric Aunt Rosebud in a boarding house that may be haunted, ten-year-old Chad comes across a mystery involving a missing diamond bracelet.

Vegan virgin Valentine

2004
Mara's niece, who is only one-year-younger, moves in bringing conflict between the two teenagers because of their opposite personalities.

Jumping the scratch

a novel
2006
After moving with his mother to a trailer park to care for an injured aunt, eleven-year-old Jamie Reardon struggles to cope with a deeply buried secret.

Zigzag

2003
A high-school junior makes a trip with her aunt and two cousins, discovering places she did not know existed and strengths she did not know she had.

2 days

2012
When Neema Powell's mother's boyfriend throws her out and her mother sides with him, Neema takes shelter with her boyfriend, Nate, for only two days before moving in with her Aunt Amina, but those two days will be enough to change her life forever.

Deadly Little Voices #4 Touch Series

2011
High school junior Camelia's psychometric powers of touch seem to be changing when she starts to hear voices saying malicious things to her, and even focusing on her beloved pottery does not help, especially after her psychic, suicidal aunt comes to stay after being released from the hospital.

Cat burglar black

2009
K. Westree arrives at Bellsong Academy, where she hopes to leave her past as a cat-burglar behind, but she quickly learns that the school contains a hidden treasure left by its founder, and as she resumes her old habits, she starts to question whether she really wants a normal life.

Backwater

1999
While compiling a genealogy of her family of successful attorneys, sixteen-year-old history buff Ivy Breedlove treks into the mountain wilderness to interview a reclusive aunt with whom she identifies and who in turn helps her to truly know herself and her family.

Storyteller

2010
Forced to spend months at an aunt's house, Elizabeth feel a connection to her ancestor Zee, whose picture hangs on the wall, and who reveals her story of hardships during the Revolutionary War as Elizabeth comes to terms with her own troubles.

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