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21) The katha chest
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
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.
22) The quiet place
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A little girl moves to the United States from Mexico with her family and writes letters to her aunt in Mexico about her new life.
23) Hidden treasure
Author
Series
Unicorn magic volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Aladdin paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
When Princess Bella throws a farewell party for her cousin, her evil aunt shows up and demands that Bella find a magic crystal hidden in the castle or lose Glimmer forever.
25) Aunt Mary's rose
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
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.
26) Summer bird blue
Author
Language
English
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Description
After her sister and songwriting partner, Lea, dies in an automobile accident, seventeen-year-old Rumi is sent to Hawaii with an aunt she barely knows while she and her mother grieve separately.
27) Murder most fair
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
November 1919. At the seaside with her husband, Sidney, could almost convince Verity Kent that life has returned to the pleasant rhythm of pre-war days. Then her beloved Great Aunt Ilse lands on their doorstep after years in war-ravaged Germany. Ilse has returned to England for her health-- and because someone has been sending her anonymous threats. As she joins Verity's family deep in the Yorkshire Dales, Ilse encounters difficulties; normally peaceful...
29) Trust no aunty
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Based on her popular Instagram @Hatecopy and her experience in a South Asian immigrant family, artist Maria Qamar has created a humorous, illustrated "survival guide" to deal with overbearing "Aunties," whether they're family members, annoying neighbors, or just some random ladies throwing black magic your way. We've all experienced interference from our Aunties--they are at family parties and friendly get-togethers, finding ways to make your life...
30) Aunt Pearl
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Aunt Pearl arrives one day pushing a shopping cart full of her worldly goods. Her sister Rose has invited her to come live with her family. Six-year-old Marta is happy to meet her aunt, who takes her out to look for treasure on garbage day, and who shows her camp group how to decorate a coffee table with bottle caps. But almost immediately, Pearl and Rose start to clash--over Pearl's belongings crammed into the house, and over Rose's household rules....
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When Nathaniel and Aunt Phil are summoned to the Welsh countryside to calm the giant dragons known as wyverns, they suspect the problem was caused by the same sinister man who has been trying to steal the Book of Beasts.
32) The proud button
Author
Publisher
Clavis Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Isabelle would love to make friends, but she's too afraid to talk to her classmates. She doesn't dare to ask them whether she can sit with them on the bus, join their group in class, or walk home with them after school. Then Isabelle receives an unexpected gift from her aunt: a special button. It reminds her to be proud of herself and have confidence. Thanks to her button, Isabelle finally finds the courage to make friends"--P. [2] of jacket.
33) Zenobia July
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Zenobia July, an excellent coder and hacker, investigates a mystery while wrestling with the challenges of a new school, a new family, and presenting her true gender for the first time.
Author
Series
Nikki and Deja volume 2
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
As her eighth birthday approaches, Deja's biggest concern is whether her father will attend her party, until her aunt is called away on business and a classmate schedules a "just because party" on the same afternoon.
36) Terciel & Elinor
Author
Series
Old kingdom volume 6
Language
English
Description
This prequel to the Old Kingdom series tells the story of how Sabriel's parents, Terciel and Elinor, met.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Childrens
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Beastologist-in-training Nathaniel Fludd and his Aunt Phil nurse a mysteriously ill unicorn, try to stop Obediah from taking the unicorn's horn, and finally get a solid lead on the whereabouts of Nathaniel's parents.
38) Worser
Author
Language
English
Formats
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
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Aunt Munca never told the truth about anything. Calling herself after the mouse in a Beatrix Potter story, she was already a figure of mystery during the childhood of her nephew Ferdinand Mount. Half a century later, a series of startling revelations sets him off on a tortuous quest to find out who this extraordinary millionairess really was. What he discovers is shocking and irretrievably sad, involving multiple deceptions, false identities and...
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