Whether related by biology, marriage, circumstance, or choice, aunts embody a uniquely flexible familial role. The aunt-niece/nephew relationship--though often overlooked--is critical and complex, one that appears at the core of a resilient, healthy family life. Drawing on personal narratives that represent a rich cross section of society, Ellingson and Sotirin construct a cohesive story of the diversity of aunting experiences in the contemporary...

Free throw specialist Cornell "Dunk" Duncan joins the YMCA summer basketball league all-star team, but after losing his confidence in an important game the seventh-grader makes some decisions about becoming an all-around player.

After James Henry Trotter's parents are tragically eaten by a rhinoceros, he goes to live with his two horrible aunts. Life there is no fun, until James receives some magical, tiny green things and accidentally drops them by the old peach tree and strange things start to happen. The peach at the top of the tree begins to grow, and before long it's as big as a house. Inside, James meets a bunch of oversized friends-- Grasshopper, Centipede, Ladybug,...

Upset over her lack of extended family to take her for ice cream or out to the ballet, Emily posts a sign at the grocery store expressing her desire for a new aunt, but the response is a little more than she expected.

"Paige Watts is the ultimate stage mother. The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Paige channels her own acting dreams into making her daughter, Emma, a star. By the age of nine, Emma is playing a central role in a hit TV show. Then everything is shattered by unforeseeable tragedy. Now Emma is living with her aunt Whitney, who had chosen a very different path than her sister. Whitney was always the studious older sister, hating the cult of celebrity that...

An orphaned girl is sent to live with extended family after her father's sudden death. Emily Starr is forced to leave her relaxed home for a stern environment. She struggles to adjust to her relatives and new classmates on Prince Edward Island.

"A young girl hears stories from her aunties and then begins to imagine all the possibilities for her future"--

When Mup's father is kidnapped by raggedy witches and taken into their strange realm, Mup must journey to the magical land to find him, and discovers it is ruled by a tyrannical queen who happens to be Mup's grandmother.