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1) Aunts
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Simple text and photographs present aunts and how they interact with their families"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
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.
6) The carousel
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Description
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.
7) Pollyanna
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
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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Seasons of the heart (Janette Oke) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
A boy worries that his aunt, who is raising him, will abandon him if she marries.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
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.
10) Practical magic
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Series
Practical magic novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
For more than two hundred years, the Owens women had been blamed for everything that went wrong in their Massachusetts town. And Gillian and Sally endured that fate as well; as children, the sisters were outsiders. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, but all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One would do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they shared brought them back, almost as if by...
11) Monster blood
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Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"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.
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Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 39
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Mark's Aunt Benna presents him with a gift of a shrunken head from the jungle island of Baladora. But this is no ordinary head, as Mark soon discovers!
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Series
Pub. Date
1985, c1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
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.
14) The forgotten
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Series
John Puller novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Description
The case soldier/sleuth John Puller gets called out on what turns out to be a crime that is personal and close to home. His Aunt Betsy has been found dead in the pool at her Florida home and while the police have ruled it an accident, Puller has reason to believe it wasn't. Deciding to check for himself, his suspicions are soon confirmed. Even more unsettling is the real reason she died.
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Cobble Street cousins volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Rosie, Lily, and Tess, three cousins who are living together with their aunt, decide to make a miniature flower shop just like Aunt Lucy's real shop, and give it to her as a gift.
17) New mercies
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"Natchez, Mississippi, in 1933 is a place suspended in time. The silver and china are still dented and cracked from Yankee invaders. And the houses have names...and memories. Nora Bondurant is running away - from her husband's death, from his secrets, and from the ghosts that dog her every step. When she receives a telegram informing her that she has an inheritance, Nora suddenly has somewhere to run to: a house named Avoca in Natchez, Mississippi....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
A thoroughly modern woman, Sarah Cain had ridiculed her sister's choice of a Plain life-style, which served only to intensify the lifelong rift between them. Now, twelve years later, Sarah is stunned by news of her sister's death and baffled by Ivy's choice of a guardian. How can Sarah sacrifice her successful career and her life in Portland to raise five Amish orphans? And what of Bryan Ford, the man who loves her? Upon her arrival in Lancaster...
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Series
Cobble Street cousins volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
While staying with their aunt for a year, three nine-year-old cousins keep busy baking and selling cookies, putting on a poetry and singing performance, and trying to encourage a romance between their aunt and one of their former customers.