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Author
Series
Lewis Barnavelt series volume 1
Language
English
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Description
A boy goes to live with his magician uncle in a mansion that has a clock hidden in the walls which is ticking off the minutes until doomsday.
Author
Publisher
David R. Godine, Publisher
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Left in the care of their strict grandmother, the four Linnet children find a much happier home with their Uncle Ambrose, his one-legged gardener, and the people of a small English village, where they help explain an old mystery and restore the joy of new friends.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: The art of Auntieology and Uncleology is a sacred craft, but ten-year-old Leo has an Uncle Mo-a clueless stationery supply salesman with good intentions-who just doesn’t get it. Yet. The Secret Society of Aunts & Uncles is a madcap, magical adventure into the heart of what it means to have an aunt or uncle-how we learn to keep each other close and how we find love in the simplest things.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ever since their free-spirited mama died ten months ago, twelve-year-old Jack and her gender creative nine-year-old brother, Birdie, have been living with their fun-loving Uncle Carl, but now their conservative Uncle Patrick insists on being their guardian which forces all four of them to confront grief, prejudice, and loss, all while exploring what 'home' really means"--
Author
Series
Samantha Spinner series volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Samantha's uncle mysteriously disappears, leaving behind extravagant gifts for her siblings and an old, rusty, red umbrella for Samantha that may contain clues to his whereabouts.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sullen teenager Dylan Barstow is caught joyriding in a stolen car he is sent to his ex-Marine uncle for the summer, but soon they are on the way to Papua New Guinea in search of a World War II fighter plane and Dylan discovers that defiance is not a survival skill when you are lost in a jungle.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Ari knows a lot of words for neighbors, including the pronouns each prefers, and with help from Uncle Lior, who always asks "What are your words," figures out which pronouns--and other words--fit best today.
10) How do you live?
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Originally published in Japanese: Tokyo : Shinchosha, 1937.
Told in two voices, fifteen-year-old Copper struggles to confront inevitable and enormous change after his father's death and his uncle writes to him in a journal, sharing knowledge and advice in 1937 Japan.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A brightly painted 40-page jacketed hardcover picture book illustrates the lyrics to the hit song We Don't Talk About Bruno from the multi-award winning movie, Disney Encanto. The art and text has been playfully arranged in an engaging way designed to delight children as they read or sing along.
12) Beetle boy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Darkus Cuttle has taken care of his father ever since his mother died, but one day his father vanished from a locked vault at the Natural History Museum, and now he lives with his eccentric uncle--but one day he finds a large and unusually intelligent and self-aware beetle, and soon he and his two friends are caught up in a struggle to protect an intelligent super species of beetles.
Author
Series
Samantha Spinner series volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After finally finding Uncle Paul, Samantha realizes her brother Nipper is now missing and must find him. But while hunting him down, she must elude the mysterious and nefarious CLOUD that's hot on her heels"--
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 94
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Your only living relative, Uncle Morgan, vanishes, leaving behind a single clue: a jewelled dagger stabbed through the carpet of his study, coated in dripping blood. Your uncle's secrets make you suspicious. Could he be a spy, a jewel thief or something else?
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Koo, a young panda, has a dream about saving the world, he worries that the job is too big for him to manage. But his Uncle Stillwater shows him that sometimes saving the world starts with doing little things, like being kind and considerate"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Samantha Spinner series volume 4
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It is up to Samantha and her brother Nipper to face what the WEATHER has in store for them and defeat SNOW, or risk losing their Uncle Paul forever.
Author
Series
Samantha Spinner series volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Uncle Paul is still missing. And Samantha just received a new gift from him: a pair of strange purple sunglasses. Are they another powerful present? A clue to his whereabouts? Or just a bad fashion choice? Samantha and Nipper need to figure it out fast, because here comes the SUN!"--
Author
Series
Harwood mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Loyola Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
This historical novel is the second book in The Harwood Mysteries and continues the adventure of Xan, Lucy, and their friends.
Author
Series
Way of the warrior kid volume 4
Publisher
Jocko Publishing in association with Di Angelo Publications
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Marc makes a new friend in the neighborhood who also wants to be a Warrior Kid, so he looks to Uncle Jake for help in creating lessons in "How to Be a Warrior Kid."
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