aunts

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aunts

Bhangra babes

2006
As their auntie's wedding day approaches, the Indian-British Dhillon sisters try to rescue her from her fianc?'s meddling aunt while also competing against one another for the affections of the new, handsome boy at school.

Mission

in search of the Time and Space Machine
2005
An eleven-year-old, bored with her life, imagines a more exciting one as a secret agent, but when she spends the summer on her aunt's farm, her stories become reality as she stumbles onto a real spy ring.

Bindi babes

2004
Three Indian-British sisters team up to marry off their traditional, nosy aunt and get her out of the house.

Oliver's milk shake

2001
Auntie Jen takes Oliver to a farm, buys the special ingredients she needs, and makes him a yummy scrummy fruity frothy icy nicy tip top tasty dreamy creamy milk shake.

Hurricane music

1995
Aunt Margaret's discovery of an old clarinet in the basement sets off a musical lifestyle for her and her family that includes jamming with hurricanes.

Prairie school

2001
In 1880, Noah's aunt teaches the reluctant nine-year-old how to read as they explore the Colorado prairie together, Noah pushing Aunt Dora in her wheelchair.

Penelope Bailey takes the stage

2006
Against the wishes of her disapproving aunt, with whom she lives in 1889 San Francisco while her parents are on a scientific expedition, eleven-year-old Penny tries to prepare herself for an acting career.

Madhattan mystery

2013
On her first day in New York City with her younger brother, Kevin, twelve-year-old Lexi overhears thieves discussing where to hide stolen jewels, and the siblings, along with their aunt's neighbor, Kim Ling, skip day camp to investigate "the crime of the century.".

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

1993
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.

The last little blue envelope

2012
Seventeen-year-old Ginny Blackstone precipitously travels from her home in New Jersey to London when she receives a message from an unknown man telling her he has the letters that were stolen just before she completed a series of mysterious tasks assigned by her now dead aunt, an artist.

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