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1) Uncle Buck
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Uncle Buck is an idle, good-natured bachelor who's left in charge of his nephew and nieces during a family crisis.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the spirit of The Bartender's Tale, a lively and poignant coming-of-age story about a boy and his great-uncle on a cross-country odyssey. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What would you do to inherit a million dollars? Would you be willing to change your life? Jason Stevens is about to find out in Jim Stovall's The Ultimate Gift. Red Stevens has died, and the older members of his family receive their millions with greedy anticipation. But a different fate awaits young Jason, whom Stevens, his great-uncle, believes may be the last vestige of hope in the family. "Although to date your life seems to be a sorry excuse...
Author
Publisher
Pleasant
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While on a camping trip with Uncle Louie, two young mice named Angelina and Henry become lost in the woods until the "fit and fearless" Angelina saves the day. This newest title in the Angelina Ballerina series begins as Angelina and Henry leave to go camping with Uncle Louie. They love exploring the Big Cat Mountains, but when they wander too far from camp, their fun turns to fear. Full-color illustrations.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1987, and only one person has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus -- her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June's world is turned upside down. But Finn's death brings a surprise acquaintance...
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Timothy Warner, a PhD student who goes by the nickname "Moth," wakes up on his ninety-ninth day of sobriety with an intense craving for drink. He asks his uncle Ed, a former alcoholic and now successful psychiatrist, to meet him at an AA meeting later that day. When Ed doesn't show up, Moth bikes to his office and discovers a grisly scene -- his uncle lying in a pool of blood, shot through the temple. The police pronounce the death a suicide, but...
8) Magic max
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After a tragic loss of both parents, eleven-year-old Tim Hart is forced to live with his immensely immature Uncle Max, a second rate magician.
Author
Series
Mickey Bolitar novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After tragic events tear Mickey Bolitar away from his parents, he is forced to live with his estranged Uncle Myron and switch high schools, where he finds both friends and enemies, but when his new new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be.
Author
Publisher
Cavendish Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The fearsome knight Horace tries to prove to his niece that he is as good as his brother, the King, while all she really wants is someone to help her stop missing her father.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
This magical adventure tells the spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old Lewis, who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart. But his new town's sleepy façade jolts to life with a secret world of warlocks and witches. Based on the beloved children's classic book.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bram moves to the small town of Louth in order to help her uncle start his new inn, but when she discovers a legacy of silenced women tied to her new home, she sets out to investigate the truth behind the town's 'Dead Girl' myths"--
Author
Series
Goosebumps House of Shivers volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
More terrifying than ever, this first book introduces a brand-new Goosebumps series that features an all new cast of villains and monsters whose antics are destined to make them every bit as beloved as Slappy.
The only thing to fear . . . is everything. Twins Betty and Billy are visiting their Uncle Wendell at his secluded house in the Wayward Forest. What they think is going to be a boring stay quickly turns into a real nightmare. Wendell is in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1934, during the Depression, Kit's cantankerous uncle comes to live in the Cincinnati boardinghouse run by her parents, enlisting her aid in transcribing his complaining letters to the editor of the local newspaper and inspiring her to write a different kind of letter of her own.
17) Horse camp
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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) The diviners
Author
Series
Diviners volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
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.
19) Fort
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"A middle-grade summer adventure about two boys who build an awesome fort and tangle with two older bullies"--
Author
Series
Klaatu diskos volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Tucker Feye and Lah Lia each hurtle through time, relating their stories in alternating viewpoints that converge at crucial moments.
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