When the klutzy Amy Audrey Perkins is as good as gold at Aunt Linda's wedding her relatives are so surprised that they have an accident.

When her eccentric Auntie Claus leaves for her annual business trip, Sophie stows away in her luggage, travels with her to the North Pole, and discovers that her aunt is really Santa's sister and helper.

Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect. Talented, beautiful, just starting out with her first job, new apartment and boyfriend, she had the world in the palm of her hand, until a single phone call altered the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the mother to her sister's three orphaned children, keeping a promise she never regretted making, even if it meant putting her own life indefinitely on hold.

A little girl moves to the United States from Mexico with her family and writes letters to her aunt in Mexico about her new life.

Twelve-year-old Treasure Daniels and her younger sister must move in with Great-aunt Grace until their mother sorts herself out, but life in Black Lake, Virginia, where segregation lingers, is hard and Grace is a nightmare--at least on the surface.

Anna's Great-great Aunt Olga saves old Christmas postcards and shares them with Anna one day, as she teaches her how to write Christmas poems.

On her sixteenth birthday, Meridian is whisked off to her great-aunt's home in Revelation, Colorado, where she learns that she is a Fenestra, the half-human, half-angel link between the living and the dead, and must learn to help human souls to the afterlife before the dark forces reach them.

A young orphan brings sunshine into the lives of everyone she meets with her optimistic outlook on life.

"After suffering the tragic death of his wife, Troy Harper finds himself following her last request-- to build a porch for his Aunt Hilda. At Happy Valley, Hilda's Arizona retirement community, Troy meets her gruff neighbor, Bobby Walden, and a bawdy, wise-cracking, adorable group of elderly women who help him discover the special, surprising meaning behind his wife's mysterious wish that he "uncross the stars.""--Container.

As the summer ends, six-year-old Garmann's three ancient aunts visit and they all talk about the things that scare them.