aunts

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aunts

Bhangra babes

2007
As their auntie's wedding day approaches, the Indian-British Dhillon sisters try to rescue her from her fianc?'s meddling aunt while also competing against one another for the affections of the new, handsome boy at school.

Pawn of prophecy

2004
Brought up on a quiet farm by his aunt, Garion does not know he will soon be led on a quest of unparalleled magic and danger by those he loved--but did not know.

El f?tbol me hace feliz

2016
For soccer games Sierra rides a bus out of the city to fields that are nicer than the "lot" in her neighborhood, but so her auntie can be at her last game, she asks Coach Marco if the team might play in her neighborhood on a day her aunt does not work.

The detective's assistant

In 1859, eleven-year-old Nell goes to live with her aunt, Kate Warne, the first female detective for Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. Nell helps her aunt solve cases, including a mystery surrounding Abraham Lincoln, and the mystery of what happened to Nell's own father.

James and the giant peach

A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a giant peach.

The league of beastly dreadfuls

Anastasia, nearly eleven, is snatched from her elementary school and sent to live at a former insane asylum with two great aunts she had never met after being told that her parents died in a tragic vacuum cleaner accident.

Emily climbs

1925
Emily Starr has always wanted to be a writer, but when her old-fashioned, tyrannical aunt tells her the only way Emily can go away to high school is if she stops writing, Emily must find a way to live out both her dreams without destroying her relationship with her aunt.

The Petsitters Club. 4, Snake alarm!

1998
Because neither Sam nor her father realizes that a garter snake dropped off for "petsitting" has escaped, they can't understand Aunt Cynthia's alarming shrieks.

Boy trouble

2011
A thirteen-year-old Irish girl who helps her seventeen-year-old aunt write an advice column for lovelorn girls faces her own dilemma when she alienates her friends after falling for a cute but aloof boy in her art class.

Happy birthday, Kit!

a springtime story, 1934
2001
On a visit to Cincinnati from rural Kentucky during the Great Depression, Aunt Millie impresses Kit with her money-saving cleverness.

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