Frank Carlson Library

Twelve-year-old CJ believes her mom is dead and that she can only communicate with her through her aunt, who is a medium, but when CJ finds out that her mother is actually alive, she goes on a journey to find her.

How Tia Lola came to visit stay: Although ten-year-old Miguel is at first embarrassed by his colorful great aunt, Tia Lola, when she comes to Vermont from the Dominican Republic to stay with his mother, his sister, and him after his parents' divorce, he learns to love her. How Tia Lola learned to teach: Juanita and Miguel's great aunt, Tia Lola, comes from the Dominican Republic to help take care of them after their parents divorce, and soon she...

Kalvan, now thirteen, discovers new magical powers and uses them, with the help of the snarky fire hare, Sparx, and his dead Aunt Noelle, to rescue his long-lost father in a magical version of St. Paul, Minnesota.

"When Maribel's family has to move in with T©Øia Carmen because Papi lost his job, Maribel and her sister feel unsettled. It's not always easy sharing a room or being in a house full of loud cousins, but Papi reminds the girls that it's only por un ratito--just for a little while. In the meantime, there is always someone to play with, the mealtimes are filled with music and laughter, and bedtime is for snuggling in tight"--Provided by publishe

"Sophia's Aunt Stella comes to visit the family every year with her purple traveling case. When Sophia's dad offers to carry the case up the stairs to Stella's guest room, she adamantly refuses his offer and lugs it up the stairs herself. No one knows what is in the suitcase, but everyone is curious. Join Sophia in discovering what's inside Aunt Stella's purple traveling case."--

Michael's love for his one-hundred-year-old great-great-aunt, who lives with his family, leads him to intercede with his mother who wants to toss out all of Aunt Dew's old things.

Stella, eleven, gets her dreamed-of adventure when something she should not have seen in the damp, dull hotel where she lives with three dreadful aunts on a cliff above Withering-by-Sea sends her on the run from stage magician Professor Starke and his thugs, eluding danger, making new friends, and facing questions about herself.

Abby spends the summer after her senior year of high school--and a life-changing diagnosis--with her aunt on Catalina Island, reconnecting with family, forging a new path, and finding love. In her old life, Abby was a high school volleyball star with a textbook-perfect future. Then Abby and her sister, Brooke, receive a letter from their estranged dad informing them he has Huntington's disease, a fatal, degenerative disorder. And when the sisters...

"Siblings Meg and Will must uncover the haunted history of their Aunt's quaint town in order to save their younger sister, Ariel, from a ghost intent on keeping her as a friend"--