Otheguy, Emma
Summary: A party? Oh no! Parties are full of tías with their flashy fashions and boom-and-bellow laughter. It's far too much for Martina! At least with all the noise, no one notices when she slips away. She finds herself in a magical place: a warm, familiar island where she can finally play in peace and quiet. Martina is home at last-- or is she? Lively and magical, this is a fresh retelling of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE OTHManushkin, Fran
Summary: Katie's Aunt Patty is the new mayor, and Katie and her friends attend her first city council meeting, brimming with ideas about what their neighborhood needs--like free ice cream, puppies, and a new park where children can play in safety.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE MANSpurr, Elizabeth.
Summary: Mother's long, long letter brings Aunt Hetta surprise and adventure, as the loose pages bury her house and keep her warm during the winter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SPUAlvarez, Julia.
Summary: Esta novela "cuenta la deliciosa historia de una familia dominicana, instalada en Vermont, que recibe la visita de una pariente muy especial. La irresistible, incontrolable e incluso mágica tía Lola transforma la vida de su familia. Sombreros, pañuelos, vestidos alegres, tacones, maracas, un tambor para las fiestas, café, hierbabuena, orégano, anís, hojas de guanábana, ajíes--su alegría invade...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yearling 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 ALV SPANISHBehar, Ruth
Summary: Estrella learns about her Cuban and Jewish heritage as she helps her aunt move from her Miami apartment to an assisted living community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BEHCrewes, Eleanor
Summary: "Shy thirteen-year-old Lilla discovers a book of magic that reveals she is a witch, but also draws the attention of an ancient evil hidden in the woods"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Summary: "In 1927 Vermont, eleven-year-old Donut, recently orphaned after the death of her beloved pops, stands to lose everything when she learns her Aunt Agnes plans to move her to Boston, but little does her aunt know that Donut has no intentions of leaving her friends or her home." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KALManushkin, Fran
Summary: "JoJo's aunt Kayla is a firefighter. She's teaching Katie's class about her job. Katie keeps trying to ask Kayla questions, but Kayla has lots to say before it's question time. If Katie is patient, will she learn what she really wants to know about firefighters?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE MANManushkin, Fran
Summary: Katie's Aunt Patty is the new mayor, and Katie and her friends attend her first city council meeting, brimming with ideas about what their neighborhood needs--like free ice cream, puppies, and a new park where children can play in safety.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2021
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR PURPLE SPANISH MANRex, Adam
Summary: A girl experiences a tumultuous and overwhelming visit from her aunts, but when they finally say good-bye she discovers that the uncles are on their way to visit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE REXCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REXBrockenbrough, Martha
Summary: On his deathbed King Tyran divides his land between his twin children, first-born Ursula, a werebear, and Albrecht; but Albrecht wants it all and makes war on his sister, killing her people and the werebeasts, becoming a tyrant to his own kingdom--but their family history is far more complicated and mysterious than he knows, and Ursula has powerful allies in the living forest that surrounds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BROMaddox, Jake
Summary: Rosie loves surfing at her Aunt Hazel's surfing school in Byron Bay, Australia, but this summer she is tasked with teaching her cousin Flora to surf although the two have never liked each other--and Rosie is finding it difficult to overcome her dislike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADGyllenhaal, Jake
Summary: "The art of Auntieology and Uncleology is a sacred craft, but ten-year-old Leo has an Uncle Mo--a clueless stationery supply salesman with good intentions--who just doesn't get it. Yet. The Secret Society of Aunts & Uncles is a madcap, magical adventure into the heart of what it means to have an aunt or uncle--how we learn to keep each other close and how we find love in the simplest things"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GYLHannigan, Kate
Summary: "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. Includes author's note and bibliographic references"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC HANMontgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
Summary: "Emily Climbs" is the second tale in The Emily Starr Series, and tells the story of Emily moving to a high school in Shrewsbury and beginning her career as a writer with the local newspaper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Read Books Ltd. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MONBaskin, Nora Raleigh
Summary: Eleven-year-old Ruby Danes has a real best friend for the first time ever, but agonizes over whether or not to tell her a secret she has never shared with anyone--that her mother has been in prison since Ruby was five--and over whether to express her anger to her mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BASBynum, Janie.
Summary: Altoona the baboon goes to visit her aunt in the frigid north, but after some adventures in the snow, Auntie gives everyone a warm surprise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BYNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BYNJones, Diana Wynne.
Summary: Aileen's family of magic makers includes Aunt Beck, the most powerful magician on Skarr, but her own magic does not show itself until a mission for the King and a magical cat help her find strength and confidence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: When a twelve-year-old orphan comes to live with her austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, her philosophy of gladness brings happiness to the aunt and unloved members of the community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2003
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Summary: "Alfred loves the monsters in his book, but he doesn't like teatime with his aunt--until he decides to invite three of his favorite monsters to join him for tea."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STRDahl, Roald.
Summary: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD Fiction DahlEtting, Jessica Koosed
Summary: Abby spends the summer after her senior year of high school--and a life-changing diagnosis--with her aunt on Catalina Island, reconnecting with family, forging a new path, and finding love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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Summary: In the summer of 1976, ten-year-old Eli Book's excitement over Bicentennial celebrations is tempered by his father's flashbacks to the Vietnam War and other family problems, as well as concern about his tough but troubled best friend, Edie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y Fiction HouMontgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
Summary: "Emily's Quest" is the final tale in The Emily Starr Series, and tells the story of Emily being separated from her childhood sweetheart and agreeing to marry another man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Read Books Ltd. 2015