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1) Aunts
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
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"Simple text and photographs present aunts and how they interact with their families"--Provided by publisher.
2) Aunts
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This book explores the relationship between children and their aunt.
3) Aunts
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EZ Readers lets children delve into nonfiction at beginning reading levels. Young readers are introduced to new concepts, facts, ideas, and vocabulary.
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This delightfully silly story told in verse picks up where Goldilocks and the Three Bears left off. Goldilocks visits family in the city, but can't remember which apartment they live in. As she knocks on several doors, she meets a forest's worth of wild animal neighbors, and her newly learned manners are put to the test! Will she remember the lessons she learned from the three bears? This short, 32-page chapter book features colorful, lively illustrations...
6) Dead Aunts
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Clint is visiting friends in Culantro on his way to Quebrada Tula when Rigo, a student at the university, says his only problem lately is dead aunts. He is practicing English. Clint asks what could be the problem with dead ants? Sweep them out."What killed them? Poison?"Juan says they were all strangled."How do you strangle and ant?" Clint asked, then added, "Oh, shit "
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Have you noticed that when women reach a certain age, they no longer care what people think of what they say or do? Allison's three great-aunts have reached that age.
Having been told by her father how awful her great-aunts are, Allison is shocked when she is asked to chauffer her three intelligent, wild family members on a road trip. Throughout their journey, Allison learns the life story of each: their versions of why they are who they are now-not...
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That's What Aunts Do is a playful story based on the relationship between aunts and nieces/nephews. The book illustrates the different activities that they might participate in together. From baking cookies to exploring outside, the message is the same. Every aunt is different, but every aunt loves their little. The author, Delaney Spellman, thought of the title while out-and-about with her niece, Addison. During one of their adventures, someone expressed...
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On doctor's orders, Bertie Wooster retires to sample the bucolic delights of Maiden Eggesford. But his idyll is rudely shattered by Aunt Dahlia who wants him to nobble a racehorse. Similar blots on Bertie's horizon come in the shape of Major Plank, the African explorer; Vanessa Cook, proud beauty and 'molder of men'; and Orlo Porter, who seems to have nothing else to do but think of sundering Bertie's head from his body.
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Savvy Auntie is the ultimate guide for cool aunts, great-aunts, godmothers, and all women who love kids but have none of their own! Written by Melanie Notkin-America's premier Savvy Auntie and creator of the popular online community savvyauntie.com-Savvy Auntie focuses on everything that parenting manuals generally leave out: namely auntie-ing! This groundbreaking handbook celebrates the 50% of kid-loving American women who aren't (or are not yet)...
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New York Times best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith launches a humorous mystery series that's sure to please children and their parents. Nine-year-old Harriet Bean can't believe her ears. She has aunts-five of them! Why has her absent-minded father never mentioned them before? Armed with a faceless family portrait and musty old clues, Harriet begins the quest for her long-lost aunts. But are her detective skills sufficient to track down muscular...
13) Chasing Redbird
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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Thirteen-year-old Zinnia Taylor uncovers family secrets and self truths while clearing a mysterious settler trail that begins on her family's farm in Kentucky.
14) The carousel
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Prue, a young woman close to succumbing to the temptation of a comfortable, yet unexciting marriage, falls for an artist on a hastily arranged visit to her Aunt Phoebe.
15) Miss Rumphius
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
16) Pollyanna
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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An abridged version of the tale of orphaned, eleven-year-old Pollyanna, who comes to live with austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, bringing happiness to her aunt and other members of the community through her philosophy of gladness. Pollyanna knows the secret to finding a smile -- even when really bad things happen. From the moment she arrives in Beldingsville, she shares her Glad Game with everyone around her. But the person who needs Pollyanna's help...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
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Despite her impoverished background, Rebecca is an imaginative and charming child, often composing little poems and songs to express her feelings or to amuse her younger brothers and sisters. Rebecca's joy for life inspires her aunts, but she faces many trials in her young life, gaining wisdom and understanding. -- back cover.
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Seasons of the heart (Janette Oke) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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A boy worries that his aunt, who is raising him, will abandon him if she marries.
19) Monster blood
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
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"While staying with his weird great-aunt, Evan buys a mixture of monster blood at a funky old toy store. It's fun to play with at first. But then Evan notices something weird about the green slimy stuff -- it seems to be growing. And all that growing has given it a monstrous appetite ..." P. [4] of cover.
20) Eight Cousins
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
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Orphaned Rose Campbell finds it difficult to fit in when she goes to live with her six aunts and seven mischievous boy cousins.