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83) Skies like these
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While visiting her eccentric aunt who lives in Wyoming, twelve-year-old Jade befriends a boy who believes he is a descendant of Butch Cassidy.
85) Sophie's Lucky
Author
Series
Sophie books (Dick King-Smith) volume 6
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A visit to Great Aunt Al in the Scottish Highlands leads to an exciting change in Sophie's life.
86) Our Gracie Aunt
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children/Jump at the Sun
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When a brother and sister are taken to stay with their mother's sister because their mother neglects them, they wonder if they will see their mother again.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The townspeople in St. Clere, Kansas, are sure it will never work out when the neat and orderly spinster, Minnie McGranahan, takes her nine orphaned nieces and nephews into her home in 1920.
Author
Series
Little blue envelopes volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.
Author
Series
Wild magic trilogy (Celine Kiernan) volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the night that Aunty dies, the raggedy witches come for Mup's family. Pale, cold, and relentless, the witches will do anything for the tyrannical queen who has outlawed most magic and enforces her laws with terror and cruelty -- and who happens to be Mup's grandmother. When witches carry off her dad, Mup and her mam leave the mundane world to rescue him. But everything is odd in the strange, glittering Witches Borough, even Mam. Even Mup herself....
90) Wedding flowers
Author
Series
Cobble Street cousins volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
72 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old cousins Lily, Rosie, and Tess return to their aunt's house on Cobble Street to help her plan the perfect wedding.
91) Prairie school
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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.
96) Altoona up north
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 20 x 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Altoona the baboon goes to visit her aunt in the frigid north, but after some adventures in the snow, Auntie gives everyone a warm surprise.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ratchet spends a summer in Maine with her eccentric great-aunts Tilly and Penpen, hearing strange stories from the past and encountering a variety of unusual and colorful characters.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Pip Bartlett has a way with the magical creatures at her Aunt Emma's clinic, but an extremely timid unicorn named Regent Maximus is testing even her abilities--particularly since it is Pip's assignment to get Regent ready for the Triple Trident show for magical animals where, to make matters worse, somebody is trying to win by sabotaging the other contestants.
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