great-aunts

Leaving his parents, his Mad Uncle Jack, and his Even Madder Aunt Maud at home at Awful End, Eddie Dickens, along with the color-blind Lady Constance, boards the ship the Pompous Pig on a mission to America.

During a visit with her great-aunt, a young girl learns the story behind her name and learns to feel proud of her biracial heritage.

Great-aunt Gladys sends postcards from her travels to young Susan, who is inspired to work and dream, and save until she too can travel around the world.

A girl who cannot do anything right is discouraged, until her favorite great-aunt gives her a "magic" locket that gives her self-confidence.

While visiting their Great-great-aunt Flossie, two sisters get a chance to see what family treasures are stored in a locked room there.

When her drug-addict mother can no longer care for her, twelve-year-old Molly comes to stay with her great-aunt and slowly begins to realize that others in the small town also feel as if they don't belong.

Bill gains self-confidence when he spends the summer in Florida with Aunt Cait, an archaeologist studying the ancient Calusa Indians.

In 1920, eleven-year-old Lillie Mae, recently orphaned, goes to live with her loving great-aunt and great-uncle in their Kentucky farm house, where she learns the truth about several secrets.

Great Aunt Dawsie springs a surprise on ten-year-old Bridget who lives and works with her family at the Blue Moon Motel.

Nell wishes she had nice old aunts like her mother had and for one brief afternoon she does.