aunts

An adaptation of Kate Wiggin's story in which talkative ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up.

An adaptation of Elenor H. Porter's story in which an orphaned eleven-year-old comes to live with her austere, wealthy, and unhappy Aunt Polly and brings joy to gloomy members of the community with her philosophy of gladness.

Thirteen-year-old Jane, whose quiet life with her two aunts is interrupted by sporadic visits from her seafaring father, tries to learn more about her half brother and sister after discovering that her father remarried ten years ago.

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.

High school sophomore Bridget Raynes has to decide whether or not to accept her powers of witchcraft, or abandon them and try to fit in as an ordinary teenager.

When Sophie is cast as the Sugar Plum Fairy in her school's performance of the Nutcracker, her Auntie Claus forgoes her usual fall business trip and transforms New York City into the North Pole, with some unpleasant consequences.

When the entire family goes into the hills to collect pi?on nuts, Josefina hopes to find the most in order to make T?a Dolores proud of her.

While making friends outdoors, Ralph manages to lose all the caps made for him by his constantly knitting Aunt Millicent.

A young girl tells about her wonderful experiences visiting her Aunt Sylvia's home in Maine in each of the four seasons.

In 1859, when Gilly's father goes to search for gold in the Rocky Mountains, the eleven-year-old is sent to stay with her aunt and uncle in Virginia, where she befriends one of her uncle's slave girls, finds out about the Underground Railroad, and discovers that people are not always exactly as they seem.