Bowman, Akemi Dawn

Summary: Rumi Seto plans to spend her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea. When Lea dies in a car accident, her mother sends Rumi to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Struggling with the loss of her sister, abandoned by her mother, and without music in her life, Rumi turns to the friendship of a teenage surfer named Kai, and an eighty-year-old named George...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOW

DiCamillo, Kate

Summary: During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DIC

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DIC

Tripp, Valerie

Summary: Meet Josefina Montoya, a nine-year-old girl growing up in New Mexico in 1824. Josefina and her sisters have been struggling ever since Mamá died a year ago. When Mamá's sister, Tía Dolores, comes to live on their rancho, the girls are overjoyed. But Tía Dolores has lots of new ideas! She starts a family weaving business. And she teaches the girls to read, something Mamá never learned to do....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC TRI

Whelan, Gloria.

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Childrens Books 2009

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC WHE

Tripp, Valerie

Summary: Josefina and her sisters distrust learning to read and write, as well as other changes their Tía Dolores is bringing to the household, because they fear they will lose their memories of their mother.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1997

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRI

Belt, Gabriela Orozco

Summary: "When Maribel's family has to move in with Tía Carmen because Papi lost his job, Maribel and her sister feel unsettled. It's not always easy sharing a room or being in a house full of loud cousins, but Papi reminds the girls that it's only por un ratito--just for a little while. In the meantime, there is always someone to play with, the mealtimes are filled with music and laughter, and bedtime...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BEL

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Tripp, Valerie

Summary: When Tia Dolores, the beloved aunt who has cared for the Montoya family since the death of their mother, announces that she is planning to leave, Josefina and her sisters try to find a way to change her mind.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. Publications 1998

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRI