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Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 59
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When his grandfather finds out he is bankrupt, Geronimo is sent off to Moldy Manor where his miserly Uncle Stingysnout teaches him to be better at saving.
2) The diviners
Author
Series
Diviners volume 1
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.
Author
Series
Klaatu diskos volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
After thirteen-year-old Tucker Feye's parents disappear, he suspects that the strange disks of shimmering air that he keeps seeing are somehow involved, and when he steps inside of one he is whisked on a time-twisting journey trailed by a shadowy sect of priests and haunted by ghostlike figures.
Author
Series
Mickey Bolitar novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"When tragedy strikes close to home, Mickey Bolitar and his new friends find themselves at the center of a murder mystery"--
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Chloe is jealous and sad when her favorite uncle announces that he will be getting married, but as she gets to know Jamie better and becomes involved in planning the wedding, she discovers that she will always be special to Uncle Bobby--and to Uncle Jamie, too. This 2020 edition has all-new illustrations by Lucia Soto.
Author
Series
Klaatu diskos volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a far distant future, Tucker Feye and the inscrutable Lia find themselves atop a crumbling pyramid in an abandoned city. In present-day Hopewell, Tucker's uncle Kosh faces armed resistance and painful memories as he attempts to help a terrorized woman named Emma, who is being held captive by a violent man. And on a train platform in 1997, a seventeen-year-old Kosh is given an instruction that will change his life, and the lives of others, forever....
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Max wants to be a knight! Too bad that dream is about as likely as finding a friendly dragon. But when Max's uncle Budrick is kidnapped by the cruel King Gastley, Max has to act...and fast! Joined by a band of brave adventurers--the Midknights--Max sets out on a thrilling quest: to save Uncle Budrick and restore the realm of Byjovia to its former high spirits! -- from Amazon.
10) The Rose legacy
Author
Series
Rose legacy volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
Orphaned Anthea Cross hopes to finally find a home with her long-lost uncle, but she soon learns not only that he secretly breeds forbidden horses, but that she can communicate with them.
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.
12) Birdie and me
Author
Language
English
Formats
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
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Months before her fifteenth birthday, Nyssa learns that she is a special member of a legendary clan, the Keepers of Knowledge, as she and her uncle try to escape from Alaric, the White Wolf, who wants to use lines tattooed on her to destroy the rest of her people.
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.
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 94
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
[2010]
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?
17) Horse camp
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, twelve-year-old twins Percy and Penny are excited to spend a summer riding horses on their Uncle Stretch's Minnesota spread, until they discover it is a pig farm.
18) Jungle of bones
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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
Series
Bad Kitty (Picture books) volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Language
English
Description
Uncle Murray takes Puppy on a walk on a day that Bad Kitty's being unusually difficult, and has several unpleasant encounters with a police officer and one mean dog along the way. Text is interspersed with information about dog behavior, pet care, and more.
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