San Antonio College Library

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.

Tomás searches for maturity and knowledge of his dead father, with the aid of his great-aunt tía Zulema's magical eyeglasses and deck of playing cards.

Wonderful adventures abound after James escapes from his fearful aunts by rolling away inside a giant peach.

With the help and interference of her cat Chica, Cecilia prepares a surprise gift for her great-aunt's ninetieth birthday.

A long undisturbed bedroom. A startling likeness. A mysterious friend. When twelve-year-old Prince Lev Lvov goes to live with his aunt at Falcon House, he takes his rightful place as heir to the Lvov family estate. Prince Lev dreams of becoming a hero of Russia like his great ancestors. But he'll discover that dark secrets haunt this house. Prince Lev is th eonly one who can set them free - will he be the hero his family needs? --

"Once, long ago, Miss Rumphius was a little girl named Alice who lived in a city by the sea. When she grew up, she wanted to travel and see faraway places and then come home to live beside the sea, just as her grandfather had. But there was one thing more she had to do. "What is that?" Alice asked her grandfather. "You must do something to make the world more beautiful," he told her. Little Alice grew up to become Miss Rumphius, and true to her promise...