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This is a list of books about characters who live with their aunts or are sent to live with their aunts (willingly or otherwise). It's a surprisingly common theme, and one that seldom fails.
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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Jane Eyre
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Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)
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James and the Giant Peach
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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4.03 avg rating — 158,644 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,743,942 ratings
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Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 53,763 ratings
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Understood Betsy
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4.24 avg rating — 14,905 ratings
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Dancing Shoes
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4.08 avg rating — 5,537 ratings
score: 840,
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Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1)
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Patrick Dennis (Pseudonym)
4.03 avg rating — 17,186 ratings
score: 760,
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8 people voted
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Practical Magic (Practical Magic, #1)
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Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 157,486 ratings
score: 674,
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Mansfield Park
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3.86 avg rating — 374,390 ratings
score: 664,
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Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 39,438 ratings
score: 644,
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Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 869,820 ratings
score: 583,
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6 people voted
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Magic's Pawn (The Last Herald-Mage, #1)
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Mercedes Lackey (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 28,318 ratings
score: 575,
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Awake and Dreaming
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4.30 avg rating — 3,194 ratings
score: 549,
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
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3.87 avg rating — 35,809 ratings
score: 523,
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Tom's Midnight Garden
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4.05 avg rating — 27,602 ratings
score: 492,
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The Story Girl (The Story Girl, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 12,365 ratings
score: 478,
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The Root Cellar
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3.98 avg rating — 2,312 ratings
score: 475,
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Bloomability
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4.06 avg rating — 10,628 ratings
score: 469,
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His Banner Over Me
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3.72 avg rating — 193 ratings
score: 467,
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Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!
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3.65 avg rating — 1,148 ratings
score: 447,
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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Vol. 1: The Crucible (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 13,458 ratings
score: 388,
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Days of Toil and Tears: The Child Labour Diary of Flora Rutherford
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3.78 avg rating — 673 ratings
score: 384,
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4 people voted
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Auntie Claus
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Elise Primavera (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 2,994 ratings
score: 378,
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4 people voted
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Hope Was Here
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4.01 avg rating — 21,311 ratings
score: 373,
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4 people voted
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Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 53,646 ratings
score: 372,
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4 people voted
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Jasmine Skies
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3.90 avg rating — 646 ratings
score: 370,
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4 people voted
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Keeping the Moon
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Sarah Dessen (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 69,234 ratings
score: 364,
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4 people voted
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Dragon Slippers (Dragon Slippers, #1)
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Jessica Day George (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 29,831 ratings
score: 289,
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3 people voted
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Deep Secret
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4.10 avg rating — 6,763 ratings
score: 288,
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Changes for Samantha: A Winter Story (American Girls: Samantha, #6)
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Valerie Tripp (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 4,985 ratings
score: 282,
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3 people voted
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Circus Shoes (Shoes, #3)
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3.83 avg rating — 1,302 ratings
score: 281,
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Island of the Aunts
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3.95 avg rating — 8,824 ratings
score: 264,
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3 people voted
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The Trolls
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3.92 avg rating — 1,152 ratings
score: 199,
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2 people voted
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A Home for Goddesses and Dogs
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4.19 avg rating — 1,225 ratings
score: 194,
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2 people voted
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Up a Road Slowly
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4.01 avg rating — 7,309 ratings
score: 193,
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2 people voted
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If I'm Lost, How Come I Found You?
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4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 193,
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Amy and Laura
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3.76 avg rating — 244 ratings
score: 191,
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2 people voted
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The Beasts of Clawstone Castle
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3.83 avg rating — 1,788 ratings
score: 190,
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2 people voted
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The Journey Begins (Road to Avonlea, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 1,071 ratings
score: 190,
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2 people voted
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The Complete Sabrina the Teenage Witch: 1962-1972 (Sabrina's Spellbook)
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3.88 avg rating — 398 ratings
score: 187,
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2 people voted
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Nellie's Promise (American Girls: Samantha, #7)
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Valerie Tripp (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 1,991 ratings
score: 186,
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2 people voted
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Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection, Vol. 1 Great Power
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4.34 avg rating — 652 ratings
score: 186,
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2 people voted
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Ruined (Ruined, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 13,983 ratings
score: 181,
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Behind the Attic Wall
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4.07 avg rating — 5,921 ratings
score: 175,
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A Handful of Time
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4.15 avg rating — 3,498 ratings
score: 172,
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The Witches of Dredmoore Hollow
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3.53 avg rating — 178 ratings
score: 168,
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2 people voted
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In Aunt Lucy's Kitchen (Cobble Street Cousins, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 945 ratings
score: 163,
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2 people voted
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Little Karin
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Way of Escape
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4.39 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Broken Days (Quilt Trilogy, #2)
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3.63 avg rating — 809 ratings
score: 100,
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The Tobermillin Oracle
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 100,
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The Warnings
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3.59 avg rating — 137 ratings
score: 100,
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Rising Above Shepherdsville
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Ann Schoenbohm (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 110 ratings
score: 99,
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Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection, Vol. 2: Great Responsibility
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4.29 avg rating — 270 ratings
score: 99,
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The Girl Who Never Was (Otherworld, #1)
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Skylar Dorset (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 2,073 ratings
score: 99,
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The Pursuit of Love
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3.95 avg rating — 22,316 ratings
score: 99,
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Bizenghast, Volume 1 (Bizenghast, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 3,121 ratings
score: 98,
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Firefly
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Philippa Dowding (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 264 ratings
score: 98,
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The Game
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3.64 avg rating — 3,996 ratings
score: 98,
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The Lark and the Laurel
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3.89 avg rating — 149 ratings
score: 97,
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The Girl Death Left Behind
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Lurlene McDaniel (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 1,972 ratings
score: 97,
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Catch the Light
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Kate Sweeney (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 278 ratings
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Octagon Magic (The Magic Series, #2)
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4.06 avg rating — 475 ratings
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The Ghost of Graylock
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Dan Poblocki (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 4,941 ratings
score: 97,
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The Spaghetti Tangle
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Alexander McCall Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Upside-Down Magic (Upside-Down Magic, #1)
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Sarah Mlynowski (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 7,120 ratings
score: 97,
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The Bastard of Istanbul
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Elif Shafak (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 62,652 ratings
score: 96,
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The World from Up Here
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4.20 avg rating — 499 ratings
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End of a Golden String
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Shades of Gray
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3.86 avg rating — 2,902 ratings
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Disney/Pixar Elio Little Golden Book
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Aimee Murata (Adapter)
4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 96,
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Nada
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3.84 avg rating — 38,019 ratings
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The House in Norham Gardens
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3.88 avg rating — 421 ratings
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The Sunday Doll
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3.66 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Disney/Pixar Elio: The Junior Novelization
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3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Brat Farrar
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4.03 avg rating — 11,520 ratings
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The Tanglewoods' Secret
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4.09 avg rating — 1,884 ratings
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Secret Lives
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3.74 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Witches of Brooklyn (Witches of Brooklyn #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 5,438 ratings
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Den blå rullgardinen (Fröknarna von Pahlen, #1)
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3.41 avg rating — 190 ratings
score: 93,
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Children of the River
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Linda Crew (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 1,986 ratings
score: 93,
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Travels with My Aunt
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3.80 avg rating — 16,722 ratings
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The Listmaker
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3.54 avg rating — 417 ratings
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Kilmeny of the Orchard
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3.66 avg rating — 9,383 ratings
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Cougar Cove
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3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Fader, okänd: En berättelse från 1700-talets senare del (Stina Pihlgren, #1)
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3.67 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Letters to My Mother
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3.99 avg rating — 443 ratings
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On the Banks of the Bayou (Little House: The Rose Years, #7)
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3.94 avg rating — 3,797 ratings
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Moonpie and Ivy
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Barbara O'Connor (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Different Dragons
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3.67 avg rating — 123 ratings
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What Comes After
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By the Great Horn Spoon!
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The Outside Child
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June Sparrow and the Million-Dollar Penny
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Rebecca Chace (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Chasing Redbird
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4.10 avg rating — 13,298 ratings
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Withering-By-Sea (A Stella Montgomery Intrigue, #1)
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Judith Rossell (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 2,042 ratings
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Dec 28, 2016 06:11PM
You're right, there are a surprising number of books where the character lives with an aunt!
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Also, there seem to be a surprising number of books where the character discovers a way to time travel at their aunt's house!
I'm a little confused by Caddie Woodlawn. Caddie lived with her mother and father.
Does the Aunt coming to live at the MC's house count, rather than vice versa, count? And if so, for how long? Thinking Amy and Laura and To Kill a Mockingbird.
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How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
