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Harriet Bean mysteries volume 2
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Harriet helps her detective aunts, Thessalonika and Japonica, investigate cheating at the racetrack by disguising herself as a jockey.
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
108 pages : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Description
With goblins, trolls, and the house boggart all trying to get them, the Grace children turn to Great Aunt Lucinda for help.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
165 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Spending the summer in Florida with her stepfather's sister who operates a "meals-on-wheels" van, twelve-year-old Chloe and her aunt become involved in a controversy surrounding the wearing of T-back bathing suits.
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Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
67 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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.
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"Smarting from her recently cancelled wedding and about to turn forty, Laurie Sassalyn returns to her Maine hometown of Calcasset to handle the estate of her great-aunt Dot, a spirited adventurer who lived to be ninety. Along with boxes of Polaroids and pottery, a mysterious wooden duck shows up at the bottom of a cedar chest. Laurie's curiosity is piqued, especially after she finds a love letter to the never-married Dot that ends with the line, "And...
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Series
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 27 x 29 cm.
Description
When a heavy snowfall causes schools and businesses to close, Tommy follows a series of notes from his Aunt Jeanne as he explores the frozen landscape, makes new friends, and participates in winter sports. Artwork includes over 200 objects for the reader to find and count.
17) Pollyanna
Publisher
Alpha Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 77 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Orphan Pollyanna Whittier is sent to live with her grim Aunt Polly in her dark, joyless mansion. The child is able to find something positive in any bad situation, and is soon spreading ripples of happiness, through the dreary circle of people who surround her. But when Pollyanna is left crippled in a traffic accident, she is forced to face her greatest challenge." -- Container.
19) Lost in Paris
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon's signature whimsical style, and stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical French vagabond. When Fiona's orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her elderly Aunt Martha who is living in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an avalanche of spectacular disasters, she...
20) Bad housekeeping
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When 28-year-old Agnes Blythe, the contented bifocals-wearing half of an academic power couple, is jilted by her professor boyfriend for the town Pilates instructor, her future is suddenly less than certain. So when her glamorous, eccentric Great Aunt Effie arrives in town and offers a job helping to salvage the condemned Stagecoach Inn, what does Agnes have to lose? But work at the inn has barely begun when the unlikely duo find the body of manipulative...
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