Central Kansas Library System

Thirteen-year-old Zinnia Taylor uncovers family secrets and self truths while clearing a mysterious settler trail that begins on her family's farm in Kentucky.

When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.

Apprehensive about spending the summer in Washington State with his Aunt Ethel when his parents get an overseas job, twelve-year-old Josh soon finds adventure when he meets the ghost of a coal miner.

Nine-year-old Dennis, whose uncle and father died within a year of one another, is visited by the ghost of his uncle, and together they settle some unfinished business.

A teenaged Nigerian girl and her older brother struggle to cope with life in their tense, stifling household--caused by their father's demands for perfection--after getting a taste of freedom during a visit to their aunt's home.

While staying with his weird great-aunt Kathryn, Evan visits a funky old toy store and buys a dusty can of monster blood. It's fun to play with at first. But then it start to grow. and grow, and grow.

As if being attacked by goblins weren't enough, Jared is now being targeted by Thimble tack. Simon is keeping an injured griffin hidden in the carriage house. And Mallory is convinced the way to get things back to normal is to get rid of the Guide. But that doesn't seem to be an option. With more creatures popping up, the Guide seems to be the only protection the Grace kids have. But why do the faeries want it so badly? There's only one person to...

Josefina and her sisters distrust learning to read and write, as well as other changes their T�ia Dolores is bringing to the household, because they fear they will lose their memories of their mother.

In 1880, Noah's aunt teaches the reluctant nine-year-old how to read as they explore the Colorado prairie together, Noah pushing Aunt Dora in her wheelchair.

Fifth-grader Emma faces many unpleasant changes as her best friend prepares to move away, her father goes to Turkey for five months, and her mother starts college, but with the help of her great-aunt Grace, Emma becomes a lot more independent and self-reliant.