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Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With goblins, trolls, and the house boggart all trying to get them, the Grace children turn to Great Aunt Lucinda for help.
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ratchet spends a summer in Maine with her eccentric great-aunts Tilly and Penpen, hearing strange stories from the past and encountering a variety of unusual and colorful characters.
Author
Series
Eddie Dickens trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Eddie Dickens's ill parents become "a bit crinkly round the edges," he is taken by his great-uncle and great-aunt, Mad Uncle Jack and Mad Aunt Maude, and embarks on adventures that involve strolling actors, St. Horrid's Home for Grateful Orphans, and a carnival float shaped like a giant cow.
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1982]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
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
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When her father goes away, eleven-year-old California "Callie" Poppy winds up with her eccentric Great-Aunt Monica and their ancestor, the once-famous etiquette expert Eleanor Fontaine, now a hypersensitive ghost.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Agnes Blythe, a once-contented academic, accepts a salvaging job from her eccentric Great Aunt Effie in the wake of an embarrassing breakup, only to find herself embroiled in a murder mystery that requires her to find the real culprit to clear their names.
9) Augustown
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Ma Taffy may be blind but she sees everything. So when her great-nephew Kaia comes home from school in tears, what she senses sends a deep fear running through her. While they wait for his mama to come home from work, Ma Taffy recalls the story of the flying preacherman and a great thing that did not happen. A poor suburban sprawl in the Jamaican heartland, Augustown is a place where many things that should happen don't, and plenty of things that...
10) Terrible times
Author
Series
Eddie Dickens trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
19uu
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Leaving his parents, his Mad Uncle Jack, and his Even Madder Aunt Maud at home at Awful End, Eddie Dickens, along with the color-blind Lady Constance, boards the ship the Pompous Pig on a mission to America.
11) Lucky Christmas
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Great-Aunt Octavia's visit banishes his dog Lucky from the house, George tries to get him reinstated in time for Christmas.
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With goblins, trolls, and the house boggart all trying to get them, the Grace children turn to Great Aunt Lucinda for help.
Author
Series
Goosebumps volume 3
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
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.
14) The last dragon
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While spending the summer in Chinatown with his great-aunt, a young boy finds an old ten-man dragon in a shop and gets a number of people to help him repair it.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"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"--
16) The story dance
Author
Publisher
Fairview Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A young girl enjoys looking at the family treasures with her grandmother and hearing about the adventures of a great-aunt she has never known, especially about when Aunt Emmadelle learned to dance the flamenco in Spain.
18) A royal tea
Author
Series
Mermaid tales volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The faerie world is in pursuit of the Grace kids in this repackage of the fourth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Spiderwick Chronicles. First a pack of vile, smelly goblins snatch Simon. Then a band of elves try to entrap Jared. Why is the entire faerie world so eager to get their hands on Arthur Spiderwick’s Guide? And will the Grace kids be left alone, now that the Guide has mysteriously disappeared? Don’t count on it. At school, someone...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Childrens Books
Pub. Date
[2008], c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A girl who always looks forward to her visits with her Great-aunt May and May's canary Willy is terribly disappointed when she thinks she will not be able to see them one Christmas.