num_pages: 281
description: When the kindly old aunts decide that they need help caring for creatures who live on their hidden island, they know that adults can't be trusted. What they need are a few special children who can keep a secret-a secret as big as a magical island. And what better way to get children who can keep really big secrets, than to kidnap them! (After all, some children just plain need to be kidnapped.) Don't miss this wildly inventive and funny read from master storyteller Eva Ibbotson.
language: English
title: Island of the Aunts
titlecomplete: Island of the Aunts
characters: Minette, Aunt Etta, Aunt Myrtle, Aunt Coral, Fate
genres: Middle Grade, Animals, Childrens, Juvenile, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Fantasy, Adventure, Fiction
ratings_count: 8612
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
category: Children's Literature, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Intermediate
publisher: Puffin Books