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1) 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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Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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With goblins, trolls, and the house boggart all trying to get them, the Grace children turn to Great Aunt Lucinda for 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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Practical magic novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
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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...
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Pub. Date
1985, c1982
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.
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John Puller novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
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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.
11) Missing May
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Appears on list
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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.
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Auntie Claus volume 2
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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When Chris expresses doubt about the existence of Santa Claus, his older sister Sophie reveals that their aunt is really Santa's sister and helper and then sends him on a strange journey.
13) Silent night
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"Paige Watts is the ultimate stage mother. The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Paige channels her own acting dreams into making her daughter, Emma, a star. By the age of nine, Emma is playing a central role in a hit TV show. Then everything is shattered by unforeseeable tragedy. Now Emma is living with her aunt Whitney, who had chosen a very different path than her sister. Whitney was always the studious older sister, hating the cult of celebrity that...
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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.
16) Keeping the moon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self.
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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Practical magic novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2021
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"The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three hundred years, but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger - the curse is already at work. A frantic attempt to save a young man's life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and...
19) Miss Rumphius
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
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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.