aunts

A girl enjoys being with her unmarried Aunt Jess, who lives in Brooklyn.

Aunt Zinnia tells her bunny nieces and nephews a cautionary tale about a skirmish with a noisy ogre that shone a bright light, one dark night when she defied her parents' admonishment to stay away from the highway.

Cassie, who is spending the summer with her aunt while her parents go through a divorce, becomes friends with Joey, a boy in a wheelchair who lives nearby with his grandmother.

Fourteen-year-old Jessie sets out to learn more about the father who abandoned her when she was a baby.

Fourteen-year-old Mary feels like a misfit, both in England where she and her family live and in their former Ireland home, until a visit to her Irish relatives helps her gain a better understanding of her background, her mother, and herself.

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.

Thirteen-year-old Jenevieve is saved from the fate of summer camp after her mother dies, taken instead to her aunt Guin's unusual home on the beach, where she meets Connor, a boy her age, and helps him in his quest to find a storied old dance hall supposedly buried beneath the dunes.

Josefina hopes to become a "curandera" or healer like T?a Magdalena, and she is tested just before her tenth birthday when a friend receives a potentially fatal snakebite.

After a poor showing at a competition, upperclassmen at Chestnut Hill are not impressed with Ali Carmichael's abilities as director of riding and start a petition to replace her; however, her niece, Dylan, convinces her friends to defend her aunt.

A little girl and her aunt ride the train to a big city, fly in an aeroplane, ride in a mkokoteni, see fisherman in their dhows, and have many exciting adventures.