James Trotter loses his parents in a horrible accident and is forced to live-miserably-with his two wicked aunts. Then James is given some magic crystals that give him hope. But when he accidentally spills these crystals on an old peach tree, strange things begin to happen. A peach starts to grow and grow until James is able to climb inside and escape his awful aunts! And through this adventure, he makes some interesting friends, including Grasshopper,...

In 1965, Frances and her best friends go to a fortune-teller who predicts Frances' murder, causing her to start tracking friends and enemies alike. Decades later, Annie Adams has arrived from London to meet Great-Aunt Frances at her vast country estate near the village of Castle Knoll as she's just replaced Annie's mom as an heir to a family fortune. But someone has murdered Frances, and now Annie will have to sort through all of Frances' files in...

Bernard loves his aunts but he doesn't want to be kissed by them and adamantly insists on "No more kisses."

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.

Goodnight Moon is an adored childhood classic, but its real origins are lost to history. In Goodnight June, Sarah Jio offers a suspenseful and heartfelt take on how the "great green room" might have come to be. June Andersen is professionally successful, but her personal life is marred by unhappiness. Unexpectedly, she is called to settle her great-aunt Ruby's estate and determine the fate of Bluebird Books, the children's bookstore Ruby founded in...

"Turning Things Around, the second volume of Kit's classic stories, tells how Kit uses her talents to tackle the challenges brought by the Great Depression"--

It's the summer before fifth grade, and for Ferris Wilkey, it is a summer of sheer pandemonium: Her little sister, Pinky, has vowed to become an outlaw. Uncle Ted has left Aunt Shirley and, to Ferris's mother's chagrin, is holed up in the Wilkey basement to paint a history of the world. And Charisse, Ferris's grandmother, has started seeing a ghost at the threshold of her room, which seems like an alarming omen given that she is also feeling unwell....

Lanie Holland loves science and nature, and so she wants to go camping and have adventures in the wilderness, while her family wants to stay home, but Lanie finds someone else who loves the outdoors when her Aunt Hannah visits.

Max the duck wishes he could do something for the other animals living at Irene's house, but when his aunts arrive for a visit he gets more than his fill of being helpful.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text celebrate the special relationship between a rabbit and the baby who made her an aunt.