Up A Road Slowly
A seven-year-old orphan goes to live with her aunt, where she learns new values as she grows to young womanhood.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1130
subjects: orphans, family life, newbery medal, girls, teenagers, aunts [X], coming of age [X], family, adolescence, domestic fiction, teenage girls, families, korean language materials, korean language, bildungsromans, bildungsromans
Celeste's Harlem Renaissance
In 1921, thirteen-year-old Celeste leaves North Carolina to stay with her glamorous Aunt Valentina in Harlem, New York, where she discovers the vibrant Harlem Renaissance in full swing, even though her aunt's life is not exactly what she was led to believe.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: bildungsromans, aunts [X], harlem renaissance, african americans, harlem (new york, n.y.), coming of age [X]
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm
An abridged version of Kate Douglas Wiggin's classic story of talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca's adventures after she leaves her home at Sunnybrook Farm to go live in town with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1190
subjects: aunts [X], new england, city and town life, interpersonal relations, coming of age [X], domestic fiction, older women, sisters, maine
All You Need Is Love
Having returned from a study-abroad program in London to be with her aunt who has breast cancer, seventeen-year-old Love struggles to decide what to do next with her life while also experiencing some tensions with her father.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: fathers and daughters, aunts [X], boarding schools, coming of age [X], schools, massachusetts