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Author
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Jumping at the chance to visit her beloved great-aunt in California to escape her life, Robyn begins to see herself and the people she loves most with a bit more clarity, pushing her to take chances she hadn't dreamed of before.
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
111 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
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.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
On this year's visit to his great-aunts' farm, a young boy enjoys all that is involved in making plum jam--even the adventure of getting the plums from Farmer Wilson's tree.
6) Two for joy
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
88 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When their beloved and very independent great aunt comes to live with them after an accident, 8-year-old Jenna and her mother struggle to keep the peace and adjust to changing family dynamics.
Author
Series
Enchantment Lake volume 3
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the final Enchantment Lake mystery, Francie's search for the truth about her mother-and herself-plunges her into danger during a North Woods winter"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Enchantment Lake volume 1
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Francie, seventeen, leaves summer school and auditions in New York City for Enchantment Lake in the woods of northern Minnesota when her great-aunts call and ask for her help investigating a mystery that centers on a road no one wants built, and on the legendary treasure said to be under enchantment.
11) Flying solo
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A woman returns to her small Maine hometown, uncovering family secrets that take her on a journey of self-discovery and new love, in this warm and charming novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over. Smarting from her recently cancelled wedding and about to turn forty, Laurie Sassalyn returns to her Maine hometown of Calcasset to handle the estate of her great-aunt Dot, a spirited adventurer who lived to be ninety....
Author
Series
Circus Mirandus volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When he realizes that his grandfather's stories of an enchanted circus are true, Micah Tuttle sets out to find the mysterious Circus Mirandus--and to use its magic to save his grandfather's life"-- Provided by publisher.
13) Grief cottage
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
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
275 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A foster child named Angel and twelve-year-old Stella, who are living with Stella's great-aunt Louise at the Linger Longer Cottage Colony on Cape Cod, secretly assume responsibility for the vacation rentals when Louise unexpectedly dies and the girls are afraid of being returned to the foster care system.
15) Dear Dotty
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"What’s a twenty-something gal to do when her parents announce a divorce after thirty years of marriage, she finds out her best friend has cozied up to her archnemesis, and she accidentally sleeps with the Wrong Guy? Turn to her great-aunt for advice, of course. Rosie Benson has always struggled to fit in with her over-accomplished family, type-A roommate/best friend, and workaholic boss. But she’s nearly losing herself as she strives...
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Physical Desc
137 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having lived for years in the shadow of his younger, more talented brother, middle schooler Tim takes painting lessons from his beloved Great Aunt Winifred and discovers that he is a gifted artist.
17) Aunt Mary's rose
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
While helping take care of his great-aunt's rose bush, young Douglas learns about family members who have done the same, starting with his great-great-grandfather, and comes to see how each is still part of that bush.
Author
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hometown hero Ana Leigh Watkins ventures to Bitter End, Tennessee, to help her great-aunt prepare for retirement. A town called Bitter End seems an ironic place for Ana to refresh her weary spirit, but she's desperate for respite from the attention and unwarranted admiration of her community. But when Ana's adventures lead her to a severed branch of her family tree -- one that involves the forbidden love between a moonshiner's daughter and a preacher's...
Author
Series
Castle Knoll Files volume 2
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Present day: Annie Adams is just settling into life in Castle Knoll when local fortune teller Peony Lane crosses her path and shares a cryptic message. When Peony Lane is found dead only hours later inside the locked Gravesdown Estate, Annie quickly realizes that someone is out to make her look guilty while silencing Peony at the same time. Annie has no choice but to delve into the dark secrets of Castle Knoll in order to find out just what Peony...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The face of the woman in the photograph was tilted upwards, as if enjoying the sunshine just for a moment, even as the wreckage of the bombed-out street lay behind her... 1944, Cornwall: Blinded by love, Vivienne Hamilton eloped to Paris with a Nazi prisoner-of-war, never to be seen again. A disgrace to her family, her name would not be mentioned by any of her relatives for over 75 years. Present day, London: When Sophie discovers a photograph of...
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