aunts

On the hottest night of the hottest part of a very hot summer, Angel, her aunt, and mother drag their mattress to the rooftop to sleep and hope for cooler weather.

When Andy and his friend Tamika spend the weekend in the city with Tamika's aunt and uncle, he tries hard to follow all the rules of etiquette during outings to a French restaurant, an art museum, and the ballet, while using his detective skills to solve a mystery involving "parachuting" hamsters.

Fred escapes from boring summer days on his aunt's chicken farm by playing virtual reality games on his computer, but when parts of a game intrude on real life, it's almost too exciting, even for Fred.

As the summer ends, six-year-old Garmann's three ancient aunts visit and they all talk about the things that scare them.

In 1946 Mandy feels trapped on her stern Aunt Bess's northern Ohio sheep farm, but as time goes on she finds herself getting involved with helping to tend the sheep.

When Adele and Simon visit their Aunt Cecile in New York City, she takes them on a train trip around the United States; but from Boston to San Francisco to Washington, D.C., Simon keeps losing his belongings, despite his sister's reminders.

Isobel learns new traditions from her Aunt Luisa, who has just arrived from Mexico, when she visits her for Hanukkah.

In 1948, nine-year-old Katy Sue's mother dies suddenly, and she and her family spend the next year trying to recover from their loss, assisted by her Aunt Katherine, who quits her teaching job to help out on their Iowa farm.

When T?a Dolores, the beloved aunt who has cared for the Montoya family since the death of their mother, announces that she is planning to leave, Josefina and her sisters try to find a way to change her mind.

When Tommy goes to visit his Aunt Jeanne at her mansion, he finds a series of notes that are clues to an unnamed puzzle meant to be solved by Tommy and the reader.