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1) Missing May
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
This critically acclaimed winner of the Newbery Medal joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!
Ever since May, Summer's aunt and good-as-a-mother for the past six years, died in the garden among her pole beans and carrots, life for Summer and her Uncle Ob has been as bleak as winter. Ob doesn't want to create his beautiful whirligigs anymore, and he and Summer have slipped...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When the spirit of Lara's great-aunt Sadie-a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance-mysteriously appears, she has one last request: Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in Sadie's possession for more than seventy-five years, and Sadie cannot rest without it. Never mind that Lara has her own problems--which Sadie could care less about. Will this sparring duo ever find what they're after?
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[c1982]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
4) Long Lankin
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When Cora and her younger sister, Mimi, are sent to stay with their great Auntie Ida in an isolated village in 1958, they discover that they are in danger from a centuries-old evil and, along with village boys Roger and Peter, strive to uncover the horrifying truth before it is too late.
6) The newcomer
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After she discovers her sister Tanya dead on the floor of her fashionable New York City townhouse, Letty Carnahan is certain she knows who did it: Tanya's ex; sleazy real estate entrepreneur Evan Wingfield. Even in the grip of grief and panic Letty heeds her late sister's warnings: "If anything bad happens to me--it's Evan. Promise me you'll take Maya and run. Promise me." So Letty grabs her sister's Mercedes and hits the road with her wailing four-year-old...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Horrified at the thought of caring for talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca, the spinster aunts nevertheless spend seven difficult years raising their niece, rewarding years for all three inhabitants of the little brick house in a small New England town.
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.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When the Depression hits in Cairo, Illinois, and Oscar Ogilvie's father must sell their home and vast model train set-up to look for work in California, eleven-year-old Oscar is left with his dour aunt, where he befriends a mysterious drifter, witnesses a stunning bank robbery, and is suddenly catapulted onto a train that takes him to a different time and place.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Caring for her three elderly aunts and their farmhouse inn near Sugarcreek, Ohio, policewoman Rachel Troyer reluctantly takes in Joe Matthews and his young son. Will she be able to uncover Joe's secrets despite her aunts'--and her own--growing affection for him?
13) Lucinda's secret
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With goblins, trolls, and the house boggart all trying to get them, the Grace children turn to Great Aunt Lucinda for help.
14) Burned
Author
Series
Burned volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Everything Hope knows about the Orchard House is from the stories of her late mother. So when she arrives at the northern Michigan family estate late one night with a terrible secret and her ten-year-old daughter in tow, she's not sure if she'll be welcomed or turned away. But as Hope works the orchard alongside her aunt, daughter, and a kind man she finds increasingly difficult to ignore, a new life begins to blossom.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
With Christmas just around the corner, Thomas Pitt's sister-in-law, Emily Radley, is suddenly called from London to be with her dying aunt. Leaving her husband and two children behind, Emily makes the long journey to an all-but-forgotten town in the county of Connemara, on the western coast of Ireland. She soon discovers that a tragic legacy haunts the once close-knit community.
Author
Series
Whistle Stop AL volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Bud Threadgoode grew up in the bustling little railroad town of Whistle Stop, Alabama, with his mother Ruth, church going and proper, and the fun-loving hell-raiser, his Aunt Idgie. Together they ran the town's popular Whistle Stop Café, known far and wide for its famous 'Fried Green Tomatoes.' And as Bud often said of his childhood, 'How lucky can you get?' But sadly, the railroad yards began to shut down and the town became a ghost town, with...
Author
Language
English
Description
"One woman discovers the beauty in chaos in this poignant and heartwarming story about the threads that hold family together from #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery. With her divorce settlement about to run out and a mortgage she can't afford, Robyn Caldwell needs a plan for her future. She nurtured her family and neglected herself. But how's she supposed to think when her daughter has become the most demanding bride ever, her son...
19) City of Angels
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Arriving in the turbulent and exciting city of Los Angeles just at the turn of the 20th century, Kit Shannon dreams of a future as a lawyer. Drawn into the upper-class world, Kit feels a burning desire to seek justice for the poor and oppressed, and in the courtroom is forced to confront an attack against the Christian faith she holds dear.
Author
Series
Golden Gate secrets volume 2
Language
English
Description
Judith Gladstone came to San Francisco after her parents died to find her last living relative, an aunt she has never met. Instead she has fallen head over heels in love with Caleb Coulter, her friend's brother. Caleb has promised to help Judith find her aunt, but she can tell he thinks of her only as a friend, and she struggles to hide her feelings. When Caleb traces Judith's aunt to the wealthy Whitley family, Judith is reunited with her long-lost...