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Author
Series
Circus Mirandus volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When three girls and their father visit for a week in the summer, it takes Tía Lola to make Miguel forget his unhappiness at the absence of any boys and embrace the adventures that ensue.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Amateur detective Pepper Blouse, a rising seventh-grader, cannot resist investigating when her Great Aunt Florence passes away under mysterious circumstances, but strictly following her mother's Detective Rulebook may not be the best plan.--
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
Catalina Incognito volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Catalina Castañeda uses Tía Abuela's sewing kit to turn ordinary clothing into a magical disguise, enabling her to uncover a thief at the local library.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
Español
Description
Cuando tres nįas y su padre los visitan durante una semana en el verano, se necesita a T́́̕a Lola para hacer que Miguel olvide su infelicidad por la ausencia de cualquier nįo y abrace las aventuras que sobrevienen.
When three girls and their father visit for a week in the summer, it takes T́́ía Lola to make Miguel forget his unhappiness at the absence of any boys and embrace the adventures that ensue.
8) Dog days
Author
Series
Carver chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Gavin wants to make a good impression at Carver Elementary, where no one knows he excels at soccer and skateboarding, but an annoying big sister, a bully, and his great aunt's Pomeranian are not helping.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Esta novela "cuenta la deliciosa historia de una familia dominicana, instalada en Vermont, que recibe la visita de una pariente muy especial. La irresistible, incontrolable e incluso mágica tía Lola transforma la vida de su familia. Sombreros, pañuelos, vestidos alegres, tacones, maracas, un tambor para las fiestas, café, hierbabuena, orégano, anís, hojas de guanábana, ajíes--su alegría invade la casa y--poco a poco--a todo el pueblo. Un...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
Description
Aunt Kathryn is totally creepy! She has a secret room in her house and she told Evan Ross to stay out, but Evan and his friend snuck in anyway. That was where they found the bottle of green monster blood.
Durante su estadiá con su peculiar tía-abuela Katheryn, Evan va a una extraña juguetería y compra una lata de sangre de monstruo.
Author
Publisher
Dragonfly Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
"Libby and her great-aunt, Lobo, both learn the Pledge of Allegiance--Libby for school, and Lobo for her U.S. citizenship ceremony"--
Yo prometo ... Lobo, la tía abuela de Libby, es mexicana, pero ha vivido en Estados Unidos por muchos años y quiere convertirse en ciudadana. Para ello, Lobo tendrá que recitar La Promesa de Lealtad a la Bandera en una ceremonia especial para ciudadanos nuevos. Libby también está aprendiendo La Promesa y va a...
13) El mapa perdido
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
Español
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
Publisher
Yearling, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
Español
Description
Juanita and Miguel's great aunt, Tía Lola, comes from the Dominican Republic to help take care of them after their parents divorce, and soon she is so involved in their small Vermont community that when her visa expires, the whole town turns out to support her.
La t̕a abuela de Juanita y Miguel, T̕a Lola, viene de Rep︢blica Dominicana para ayudar a cuidarlos despǔs del divorcio de sus padres, y pronto se involucra tanto en su pequęa comunidad...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old aspiring basketball star and interior designer Lucy Wu is excited about finally having her own bedroom, until she learns that her great-aunt is coming to visit and Lucy will have to share a room with her for several months, shattering her plans for a perfect sixth-grade year.
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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
Enchantment Lake mysteries volume 1
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A disturbing call from her great aunts Astrid and Jeannette sends seventeen-year-old Francie far from her new home in New York into a tangle of mysteries. Ditching an audition in a Manhattan theater, Francie travels to a remote lake in the northwoods where her aunts? neighbors are ?dropping like flies? from strange accidents. But are they accidents? On the shores of Enchantment Lake in the woods of northern Minnesota, something ominous is afoot, and...
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