aunts

Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self.

Sixteen-year-old Dan opts to live with his twenty-two-year-old bass-playing aunt, Jacq, during his last year of high school while his parents are in Geneva, but the situation becomes complicated when he falls for Jacq's beautiful friend and roommate Naomi.

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.

Nate happily returns to England with his Aunt Phil after beating the basilisk only to find that their home has been ransacked, but before he can determine if the mysterious man who is after the Book of Beasts is to blame, he and his aunt must make haste to the Welsh countryside to calm some unruly wyverns--giant dragons.

After their mother dies of typhoid, Verna and her younger sister Carlie move with their father, a psychiatrist, and stern Aunt Maude to an asylum for the mentally ill in early-twentieth-century Michigan, where new ideas in the treatment of mental illness are being proposed, but old prejudices still hold sway.

Tokee is unhappy having to spend the day with her old-fashioned Auntee Edna until she discovers that her aunt is full of good ideas for fun.

When she joins Aunt Japonica and Aunt Thessalonika on a trip to America, nine-year-old Harriet meets yet another relative--Aunt Formica, a cowgirl who is having trouble with some clever and mysterious cattle rustlers.

When her absent-minded inventor father suddenly remembers that he has five sisters, nine-year-old Harriet Bean, who has never heard of them before, determines to find her unknown aunts so that the unfinished family portrait can be completed.

Arthur spends a summer with his unconventional aunt and uncle and begins to look at life, his family, and himself differently.

While Andy's parents are at the hospital with a new baby, leaving Andy and his sister at home with their germaphobic aunt, Andy thinks that Aunt Janet wants him to get rid of his pets.