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The Listmaker by Robin Klein, Twelve year old Sarah Radcliffe is the Listmaker of the title. She's a solitary, insecure girl who attends an expensive boarding school and lives with her two elderly aunts during the holidays. Her mother is dead and her busy father is often overseas, or interstate on business. Sarah likes an ordered tidy life so she makes lists for everything.

At the beginning of the book we find her making lists and trying to organise her aunts, Aunty Nat and Aunt Dosh (Dorothy), when they are moving out of their suburban unit into Avian Cottage outside the city. Sarah doesn't expect to spen d much time at Avian Cottage because her father is getting married again and she is looking forward to living with him and his new glamourous, businesswoman wife, Piriel Starr. Sarah is looking forward to being a day student at her school and getting to know Piriel, who she admires because she is very efficient and organised.

The story takes place over the summer holidays in which the prickly Sarah and her two aunts settle into the new house, endure renovations, and celebrate Christmas. Some quick trips to the city reveal more about Piriel Starr and Sarah's father and the much anticipated wedding.

Sarah learns to value old relationships and begins to start a new friendship