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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
With his Uncle Horatio trapped in an enchanted sleep by the power-hungry Alchemist, Milo sets off with Alessia to find a cure with the help of the Botanist, and in their hunt for an antidote, they must forage in the Secret Garden, challenge Robin Hood, and confront the mighty Jabberwock.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books/Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After being framed by a jealous poodle, a dachshund is left for dead, but comes back with a group of mutts from the National Last Ditch Dog Depository to disrupt the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club dog show and exact revenge on Cassius the poodle.
44) A spark unseen
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
When Katharine Tulman foils an attempt to kidnap her Uncle Tully, she finds herself caught up in international intrigue. Aware that there are people who want to turn her uncle's mechanical fish into an explosive device, and unsure of who to trust, she decides to fake her uncle's death and flee to Paris in search of Lane Moreau, her uncle's assistant.
Author
Series
Pyramid hunters volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Sam heads to Belize to continue his investigation into his parents' mysterious disappearance and to learn more about secret of the pyramids. But after being kidnapped by crocodile cultists, will he ever be able to find the answers he's looking for?"--
Author
Series
Pyramid hunters volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Following the various clues his uncle left behind, using the same knowledge of Ancient Egyptian history, culture, and religion he once hated, Sam makes his way across Egypt, trying to solve the mystery of his uncle's disappearance and, eventually, the secret of the Iron Tomb"--
Author
Series
Eddie Dickens trilogy volume 1
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Eddie Dickens's ill parents become "a bit crinkly round the edges," he is taken by his great-uncle and great-aunt, Mad Uncle Jack and Mad Aunt Maude, and embarks on adventures that involve strolling actors, St. Horrid's Home for Grateful Orphans, and a carnival float shaped like a giant cow.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative.
When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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The journey of the Callery pear tree rescued from Ground Zero and replanted ten years later is presented alongside a wordless story following a girl and her firefighter uncle who is a 9/11 hero. Includes author's notes.
51) The funeral
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Norma and her parents are going to her great-uncle Frank's funeral, and Norma is more excited than sad. She is looking forward to playing with her favorite cousin, Ray, but when she arrives at the church, she is confronted with rituals and ideas that have never occurred to her before. While not all questions can be answered, when the day is over Norma is certain of one thing: Uncle Frank would have enjoyed his funeral. This sensitive and life-affirming...
52) Mountain dog
Author
Publisher
Square Fish/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Tony's mother is sent to jail, he is sent to stay with a great uncle he has never met in Sierra Nevada. It is a daunting move--Tony's new world bears no semblance to his previous one. But slowly, against a remote and remarkable backdrop, the scars from Tony's troubled past begin to heal.
53) How do you live?
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
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.
54) Chasing Redbird
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Zinnia Taylor uncovers family secrets and self truths while clearing a mysterious settler trail that begins on her family's farm in Kentucky.
55) The truce
Author
Series
Ghosts of ordinary objects volume 3
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In a southern Virginia coal-mining town in December 1942, Bone Phillips is learning to control her Gift: seeing the history of a significant object when she touches it. But one object is off limits: Uncle Ash's World War I dog tags, which hold memories of terror. When a body identified as Uncle Ash turns up inside the mines, Bone will need every ounce of courage she can summon to not only find her beloved uncle through the dog tags but prove that...
56) Your corner dark
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Frankie Green yearns to leave Jamaica and study in the United States, but when his father is shot he is forced to give up his scholarship and join his uncle Joe's gang.--Provided by Publisher.
The second Frankie Green gets that scholarship letter, he has his ticket out of Jamaica. The second his longtime crush, Leah, asks him on a date, he's in trouble. The second his father gets shot, suddenly nothing else matters. And the second...
57) Beetle boy
Author
Series
Beetle trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
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.
58) Espanto marino
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
Description
Billy and Sheena go with their Uncle, Dr. Deep, to search for treasure and are pursued by pirates who have been dead for two hundred years, and when Billy and Sheena return to land and visit Horrorland they encounter their worse fears.
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.--Provided by Publisher.
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