Aunt Minnie McGranahan
Illustrator
Betsy Lewin
Publisher
Clarion Books
Publication Year
1999
ISBN
9780395822708
Pages
31 pages
Genre
historical
Format
picture book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
The townspeople in St. Clere, Kansas, are sure it will never work out when the neat and orderly spinster, Minnie McGranahan, takes her nine orphaned nieces and nephews into her home in 1920.
Grade Level
K-3
Lexile Measure
AD570L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Kinship care; children living with relatives; aunt raising nieces and nephews
Main Character
adult female
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
aunt
Awards
Parents' Choice Award, 1999, Recommended, Picture Book
Children's Catalog, Eighteenth Edition, 2001
Children's Catalog, Nineteenth Edition, 2006
Kirkus Book Review Stars, 1999
Keywords
Kansas; neatness and messiness; organized; orphans; single women; small town life; 1920s; system
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Prigger, Mary Skillings, "Aunt Minnie McGranahan" (1999). Diverse Families. 2016.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/2016