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1) Housekeeping
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ruth and her sister Lucille are cared for by Sylvie, the transient sister of their dead mother. They attempt to keep house as the forces of nature erode their stronghold.
7) Kotuku
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Still having difficulty facing the death of her best friend, Wim must deal with a difficult great-aunt and Maori visitors from New Zealand who uncover a dark family secret.
8) Little Chick
Author
Publisher
Candlewick
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A collection of three stories in which Little Chick learns how to deal with life's disappointments with the help of his beloved auntie.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters club volume 36
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
Jessi's Aunt Cecelia is moving in to take care of her and her brother and sister. Jessi knows she is old enough to take care of herself--but how can she tell that to her aunt?--Cover.
10) Aunt Lulu
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Tired of working as a librarian in Alaska, Aunt Lulu takes her sled and her fourteen Huskies and moves to Parsippany, New Jersey.
12) Tending to Grace
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Cornelia, a high school student, is forced to confront the truth about herself and her mother after her mom runs off with a boyfriend, leaving her in the care of an eccentric aunt.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
When her father enters the hospital to have open-heart surgery, ten-year-old Emma is sent to Peconic Bay to live with her tormented aunt and finds the experience painful until she meets a friend who suggests making a miniature village in the sand.
14) Miss Rumphius
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1982]
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.
17) Missing May
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.
20) Kat's promise
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Orphaned and sent to live with her bitter and angry aunt, thirteen-year-old Katherine learns how her family's past has affected her and her relatives and makes decisions about how to move forward with her own life.
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