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41) Pollyanna
Author
Language
English
Description
In early twentieth-century Vermont, orphaned, eleven-year-old Pollyanna comes to live with her austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, and uses her philosophy of gladness to bring happiness to her aunt and other unhappy members of the community.
42) Summer party
Author
Series
Cobble Street cousins volume 5
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old cousins Lily, Rosie, and Tess are sad when it is time to leave Aunt Lucy, so they plan a party and get a special surprise to look forward to in the near future.
44) Special gifts
Author
Series
Cobble Street cousins volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2000, ©1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old cousins Rosie, Lily, and Tess spend their winter vacation learning to sew with their neighbor Mrs. White and preparing for a special winter solstice dinner with Aunt Lucy and her boyfriend Michael.
45) New mercies
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Inheriting a historic Mississippi family home she knows little about, Nora Bondurant moves to the house hoping to forget her unhappy past but becomes enmeshed in a mystery surrounding her aunt's untimely death.
46) Dog days
Author
Series
Carver chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Gavin wants to make a good impression at Carver Elementary, where no one knows he excels at soccer and skateboarding, but an annoying big sister, a bully, and his great aunt's Pomeranian are not helping.
47) The katha chest
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Asiya loves to visit Nanu's house and rummage through her katha chest filled with quilts that tell stories about the bold and brave women in Asiya's family.
48) Pig Pig returns
Author
Series
Pig Pig books volume 6
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
©2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Pig Pig is concerned about travelling across the country with his aunt and uncle, but is even more worried when he returns.
Author
Series
American girls collection. Kit, 1934 volume 4
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 4
American girl Kit volume 4
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 4
American girl Kit volume 4
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On a visit to Cincinnati from rural Kentucky during the Great Depression, Aunt Millie impresses Kit with her money-saving cleverness. Includes information on life in America during the Great Depression.
Author
Series
American girls collection. Josefina, 1824 volume 1
American girls collection. Josefina 1824 volume 1
American girl Josefina volume 1
American girls collection. Josefina 1824 volume 1
American girl Josefina volume 1
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Josefina, the youngest of four sisters living in New Mexico in 1824, tries to help run the household after her mother dies.
51) Auntie Claus
Author
Series
Auntie Claus volume 1
Publisher
Silver Whistle/Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
©1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When her eccentric Auntie Claus leaves for her annual business trip, Sophie stows away in her luggage, travels with her to the North Pole, and discovers that her aunt is really Santa's sister and helper.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his mother's death, eleven-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt, a reclusive painter with a haunted past. Aunt Charlotte, otherwise a woman of few words, points out a ruined cottage, telling Marcus she had visited it regularly after she'd moved there thirty years ago because it matched the ruin of her own life. Eventually she was inspired to take up painting so she could capture its utter desolation.The...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"All her life Vera has felt like a stranger in the old and drafty farmhouse she arrived in as a five-year-old refugee from East Prussia in 1945, and yet she can't seem to let it go. 60 years later, her niece Anne suddenly shows up at her door with her small son -- Anne has fled the trendy Hamburg neighborhood she never fit into when her relationship implodes. Vera and Anne are strangers to each other, but have much more in common than they think....
56) Wormwood Mire
Author
Series
Stella Montgomery intrigue volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Aunts have sent eleven-year-old Stella away to the moldering old family estate, Wormwood Mire, where she discovers two odd cousins and more clues to the mysteries of her family and of herself.
58) Willy and May
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A girl who always looks forward to her visits with her Great-aunt May and May's canary Willy is terribly disappointed when she thinks she will not be able to see them one Christmas.
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