aunts

Having returned from a study-abroad program in London to be with her aunt who has breast cancer, seventeen-year-old Love struggles to decide what to do next with her life while also experiencing some tensions with her father.

After Delia Truesdale's mother disappears, everyone else believes she is dead. Delia is then sent to New York to live with her two aunts before she begins to search for her mother. Suddenly Delia is confronted by a series of secrets which unravel one by one.

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.

Brought up on a quiet farm by his aunt, Garion does not know he will soon be led on a quest of unparalleled magic and danger by those he loved--but did not know.

Fourteen-year-old Mary feels like a misfit, both in England where her family lives and in Ireland where they're from, until she and her family visit her grandmother and other relatives in Ireland and Mary gains a better understanding of her background, her mother, and herself.

Unable to afford an apartment on their own, fifteen-year-old Katie and her mother reluctantly go to live with stubborn, eccentric Aunt Rose, who turns out to be not just a source of embarrassment, but an inspiration as well.

Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up.

Despite the calamitous experiences of Aunt Bernice and her awful dog, Ida learns to love her outrageous relative.