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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
As if being attacked by goblins weren't enough, Jared is now being targeted by Thimble tack. Simon is keeping an injured griffin hidden in the carriage house. And Mallory is convinced the way to get things back to normal is to get rid of the Guide. But that doesn't seem to be an option. With more creatures popping up, the Guide seems to be the only protection the Grace kids have. But why do the faeries want it so badly? There's only one person to...
3) Missing May
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living. Twelve-year-old Summer, her classmate Cletus, and her grieving Uncle Ob set off across West Virginia in search of a "Small Medium at Large" in fond hopes of reaching Aunt May beyond the grave. Their journey is heartening, funny, and altogether unforgettable.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Apprehensive about spending the summer in Washington State with his Aunt Ethel when his parents get an overseas job, twelve-year-old Josh soon finds adventure when he meets the ghost of a coal miner.
5) Ferris
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Bethany's parents have always been overprotective, but when they suddenly drop out of sight with no explanation, leaving her with an aunt she never knew existed, Bethany uncovers shocking secrets that make her question everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.
Author
Series
Little blue envelopes volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.
Author
Series
American girls collection. Josefina, 1824 volume 2
American girl.Josefina volume 02
American girl 1824 volume 02
American girls collection. Josefina 1824 volume 2
American girl.Josefina volume 02
American girl 1824 volume 02
American girls collection. Josefina 1824 volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Josefina, the youngest of four sisters living in New Mexico in 1824, tries to help run the household after her mother dies.
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
"Even though his awful great-aunt Gertrudis doesn't approve, Micah believes in the stories his dying Grandpa Ephraim tells him of the magical Circus Mirandus: the invisible tiger guarding the gates, the beautiful flying birdwoman, and the magician more powerful than any other--the Man Who Bends Light. Finally, Grandpa Ephraim offers proof. The Circus is real. And the Lightbender owes Ephraim a miracle. With his friend Jenny Mendoza in tow, Micah sets...
Author
Series
American girls collection. Josefina, 1824 volume 4
American girl.Josefina volume 04
American girls collection. Josefina 1824 volume 4
American girl 1824 volume 04
American girl.Josefina volume 04
American girls collection. Josefina 1824 volume 4
American girl 1824 volume 04
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Josefina hopes to become a "curandera" or healer like Tía Magdalena, and she is tested just before her tenth birthday when a friend receives a potentially fatal snakebite.
11) Housekeeping
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award A modern classic, "Housekeeping" is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, the same lake where their grandfather died in...
Author
Series
American girls collection. Kit, 1934 volume 4
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 4
American girl.Kit volume 04
American girl 1934 volume 04
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 4
American girl.Kit volume 04
American girl 1934 volume 04
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
On a visit to Cincinnati from rural Kentucky during the Great Depression, Aunt Millie impresses Kit with her money-saving cleverness. Includes information on life in America during the Great Depression.
Author
Series
League of beastly dreadfuls volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Anastasia, nearly eleven, is snatched from her elementary school and sent to live at a former insane asylum with two great aunts she had never met after being told that her parents died in a tragic vacuum cleaner accident.
14) Auntie Claus
Author
Series
Auntie Claus volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When her eccentric Auntie Claus leaves for her annual business trip, Sophie stows away in her luggage, travels with her to the North Pole, and discovers that her aunt is really Santa's sister and helper.
15) A promise kept
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
God was going to save her marriage, Allison was sure of it. But neither her husband nor her marriage had been saved. What had become of His promise? Tony Kavanagh had been Allison's dream-come-true. They were in love within days, engaged within weeks, married and pregnant within a year. Her cup bubbled over with joy . . . but years later, that joy had been extinguished by unexpected trials. The day Allison issued her husband an ultimatum, she thought...
16) Up a road slowly
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1130L
Language
English
Description
A seven-year-old orphan goes to live with her aunt, where she learns new values as she grows to young womanhood. There are many happy memories and sad times too; jealousy of her sister, death of a schoolmate, and disappointment of first love.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate...only to discover he lives seven years in the past, in this witty and wise new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics. Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it. So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: work hard, find someone decent...
Author
Series
American girls collection. Josefina, 1824 volume 6
American girl.Josefina volume 06
American girl 1824 volume 06
American girls collection. Josefina 1824 volume 6
American girl.Josefina volume 06
American girl 1824 volume 06
American girls collection. Josefina 1824 volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
When Tâia 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.
19) A world away
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Eliza, an Amish girl, goes to work for an "English" family as a nanny to two young children, and must then choose between two entirely different ways of life.
Author
Series
Amber Brown volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the end of third grade, Amber is excited about her trip with her aunt to London and Paris, where she will see her father again, but her plans change when she comes down with chicken pox.
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