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23) Worser
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
William Wyatt Orser's life is turned upside down after his mother has a stroke, but the socially awkward, word-loving twelve-year-old finds glimmers of hope when he discovers friends who share his love of wordplay and books.
Author
Series
Catalina Incognito volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Eight-year-old Catalina Castañeda uses Tía Abuela's sewing kit to turn ordinary clothing into a magical disguise, enabling her to uncover a thief at the local library.
26) Storyteller
Author
Language
English
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Description
Forced to spend months at an aunt's house, Elizabeth feels a connection to her ancestor Zee, whose picture hangs on the wall, and who reveals her story of hardships during the Revolutionary War as Elizabeth comes to terms with her own troubles.
27) Bhangra babes
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Series
Language
English
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Description
As their auntie's wedding day approaches, the Indian-British Dhillon sisters try to rescue her from her fiancé's meddling aunt while also competing against one another for the affections of the new, handsome boy at school.
32) Finding family
Author
Language
English
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Description
Raised in Charleston, West Virginia, at the turn of the twentieth century by her grandfather and aunt on off-putting tales of family members she has never met, twelve-year-old Delana is shocked when, after Aunt Tilley dies, she learns the truth about her parents and some of her other relatives.
Author
Series
Poison apple books volume 2
Language
English
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Description
When her great-aunt Margo arrives in New York from Romania with her collection of stuffed bats, Emma-Rose Paley, who dislikes sunshine and hates garlic, believes she has discovered a vampire in the family and that she must be one too.
Author
Language
English
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Description
After their mother dies of typhoid, Verna and her younger sister Carlie move with their father, a psychiatrist, and stern Aunt Maude to an asylum for the mentally ill in early-twentieth-century Michigan, where new ideas in the treatment of mental illness are being proposed, but old prejudices still hold sway.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
When their parents, a screenwriter and a film editor, go off on summer projects, Marigold, twelve, Zinnia, eleven, and Lily, five, must visit their Great Aunt Sunny in Cape Cod, where they learn much about themselves and each other and grow closer than ever.
Author
Series
Little blue envelopes volume 2
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Language
English
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Description
In 1968, eleven-year-old Julia and her Aunt Constance are forced to sell their family home, Windy Ridge, in New York's Hudson Valley and embark on a cross-country automobile trip in search of Julia's mother, bringing only three travel trunks and some "practical travel things."
40) Auntie Claus
Author
Publisher
Silver Whistle/Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
37 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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.
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