Hedgehogs Trundle and Esmeralda, along with their new friend Jack Nimble, sail out into the Sundered Lands to find Esmeralda's aunt, who they hope will help them unravel the clues to find the next of the six crowns.
Daniel is forced to live with his strict, and strange, Aunt Severe, after his parents disappear, and when he discovers four lost dragons hiding in her garden, his problems only get worse.
Just before leaving for the winter, Jemima visits one last time her favorite places on the farm, recalling the wonderful summer she spent there with her aunt.
In early twentieth-century New England, talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, and spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up in their company.
When Aunt Stella takes Luke and Sophie to search for artist's treasure, they explore ways of seeing and different ways of creating, and try various materials.
Orphaned and sent to live with her bitter and angry aunt, thirteen-year-old Katherine learns how her family's past has affected her and her relatives and makes decisions about how to move forward with her own life.
In the early nineteenth century, a Swedish orphan worries that she will again lose someone she loves when her aunt sails to Stockholm during the stormiest season.
Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, and spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up in their company.
