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Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
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108 pages : ill., map ; 18 cm.
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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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"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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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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Goosebumps. Original series volume 3
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In an old toy store near his great-aunt's home, twelve-year- old Evan buys a dusty can of Monster Blood he thinks will be fun to play with.
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Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 20 cm
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"Awkward, unsocial eleven-year-old Martin knows he's going to have a terrible summer with his weird great-aunt Lenore, who lives on a tiny island called Beyond in the Maine woods. But nothing about Beyond is what Martin expects"--
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Circus Mirandus volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"When he realizes that his grandfather's stories of an enchanted circus are true, Micah Tuttle sets out to find the mysterious Circus Mirandus--and to use its magic to save his grandfather's life"--
11) Grief cottage
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2017.
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After his mother's death, eleven-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt, a reclusive painter with a haunted past. Aunt Charlotte, otherwise a woman of few words, points out a ruined cottage, telling Marcus she had visited it regularly after she'd moved there thirty years ago because it matched the ruin of her own life. Eventually she was inspired to take up painting so she could capture its utter desolation.The...
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A foster child named Angel and twelve-year-old Stella, who are living with Stella's great-aunt Louise at the Linger Longer Cottage Colony on Cape Cod, secretly assume responsibility for the vacation rentals when Louise unexpectedly dies and the girls are afraid of being returned to the foster care system.
13) A royal tea
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Series
Mermaid tales volume 9
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
94 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
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While Kiki and Echo help Shelly prepare for a royal tea with her visiting great-aunt, Queen Edwina, Shelly worries that the Queen will make her leave Trident City and move to Neptune Castle.
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Series
Catalina Incognito volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Eight-year-old Catalina Castañeda uses Taia Abuela's sewing kit to turn ordinary clothing into a magical disguise, enabling her to uncover a thief at the local library.
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Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper?Venice. Caroline?s quest: to scatter Juliet “Lettie” Browning?s ashes in the city she loved and to unlock the mysteries stored away for more than sixty years... It?s 1938 when art teacher Juliet Browning arrives in romantic Venice. For her students, it?s a...
17) Lucy the good
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When Lucy's great-aunt Bep comes from Holland to Adelaide, Australia, to visit, she is shocked by some of Lucy's behavior, and Lucy begins to wonder about herself. Includes a glossary of Dutch words and a recipe.
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
4 CDs (4 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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California Poppy has been dropped off, yet again, with an unsuspecting relative. This time it's her eccentric Great-Aunt Monica, a woman she's never even met. Aunt Monica has no idea what to do with an eleven-year-old, so she puts California to work researching their ancestor, the once-famous etiquette expert Eleanor Fontaine. California soon discovers that Great-Great-Great Aunt Eleanor is, not exactly alive and well, but a ghost, and a super sensitive...
20) Circus Mirandus
Author
Series
Circus Mirandus volume 1
Publisher
LA Galera, SAU Editorial
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
317 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
Ephraim, el abuelo de Micah, siempre le ha contado maravillosas historias sobre el Circus Mirandus, un circo mágico que había visitado de niño. Pero ahora Ephraim se está muriendo, y la terrible tía abuela Gertrudis se ocupará de Micah. Toda la magia de la infancia de este parece desvanecerse, hasta que el abuelo lecuenta un gran secreto: el Circus Miranda es real, y el Domador de Luz, su mayor mago, le debe un milagro. Acompañado por su...
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