Title: The village by the sea
Description: When Emma's father goes to the hospital for surgery, she is sent to stay with Aunt Bea the "terror" and kindly Uncle Crispin. Emma wonders how she will survive two weeks with the always hostile Aunt Bea.
Subjects: Aunts, Juvenile fiction, Beaches, Fiction, Ten-year-old girls, Children of sick persons, New York Times reviewed, Children's fiction, Family, fiction, Seashore, fiction, Cities and towns, fiction, Seashore