aunts

An episode in the adventurous life of a wonderful aunt, who socializes with zoo animals, sails with a pirate, bakes pies you can wind up like music boxes, and builds a house in the forest.

"Everybody is fighting in sixth-grader Maximilian's world as his elderly aunts battle for the Queen Bingo trophy, his masked uncles wrestle for the tag-team title of the world, and his sweetheart and the "new girl" battle for Max's heart"--Provided by publisher.

"Spending the summer with relatives, a take-charge girl tackles the challenges of her aunt's failing bakery, her great-uncle's unique ways of communicating, and her great-aunt's perpetual gloom, before discovering that she, herself, may need help"--Provided by publisher.

"Bronte is ten years old when she receives a letter saying that her long-absent parents have been killed by pirates, and the lawyers tell her that their will (reinforced with serious magic) requires her to deliver gifts to her ten other aunts (not Aunt Isabelle, whom she lives with), and to start the trip immediately and alone--but as she travels the kingdoms, she begins to suspect that there is more to this journey than delivering treasures, and that her parents had more secrets than she ever realized"--Provided by publisher.

Stella travels planet to planet visting her aunties looking for a stellar hairdo for the Big Star Little Gala, but she is not convinced by any of their suggestions.

In 1977, after her mother's suicide, twelve-year-old Dulcie Louise Dixon is sent to live with her aunt and must rise out of her grief and find her voice again with the help of some surprising new friends.

"Mercy lives in modern-day Pietermaritzburg, South Africa with her eccentric foster aunts . . . Mercy tries to keep her head down at school so nobody notices her. But when a classmate frames her for stealing the school's raffle money, Mercy's teachers decide to take a closer look at her home life. Along comes Mr. Singh, who rents the back cottage of the house on Hodson Road. When he takes Mercy to visit a statue in the middle of the city, she learns that the shy, nervous 'Mohandas' he tells stories about is actually Gandhi, who spent a cold and lonely night in the waiting room of the Pietermaritzburg train station over a hundred years ago . . . the visit to his statue marks Mercy's realization that she needs--just like Gandhi--to stand up for herself"--Provided by publisher.

Azaleah and her sisters are delighted to spend a weekend at Auntie Sam's while their parents are away, but the cookies Azaleah tries to bake are awful and she is determined to learn why.

Cousins Malia, Ivan, and Dante are visiting their aunt Lucy for the summer. On their way to Gulf City s water park, they get lost on 13th Street. Only it s not a street at all. It s a strange world filled with dangerous beasts! Will the cousins find their way back to Aunt Lucy s?.

Siblings Meg, Will, and Ariel Griffin are off on an adventure! They can t wait to spend a week visiting their eccentric aunt and her giant, tongue-drooling Newfoundland dog in England. But when they finally arrive, they re faced with a few local secrets that stir up more than a little trouble.