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1) Uncles
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Simple text and photographs depict uncles and what they can do with their nieces and nephews.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer"--
Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. He loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, When Maisie and Grant lose their mother and...
5) 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
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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
Language
English
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...
9) Gift horse
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Matt finds it easy to believe that his great-uncle will give him a horse; caring for it after it arrives proves to be the greater challenge.
11) Starter villain
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
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
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's a whole new ride from master of horror and bestselling author R.L. Stine--with a story so fiendish that it can't be contained to just one book!
Abby and Peter are staying with Uncle Jonathan in an eerie old village. Their uncle knows a lot about Egypt, and his living room even looks like an ancient tomb. Do other secrets lurk inside the house? MUM's the word! Next, Abby and Peter will get all WRAPPED up in a terrifying mystery. Slappy the Dummy...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Is he ready to be a father to this little girl? Learning he's guardian to his orphaned niece sends child-averse architect Michael O'Connell's life into a tailspin. He's floored by the responsibility, so when child life specialist Mariah Anderson agrees to pitch in at home, Michael thinks she's heaven-sent. Michael is shocked at the depth of his own connection to Mariah, and when she moves in, he opens his heart to her in ways he never could have imagined....
16) Fender lizards
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dot waitresses on roller skates at the Dairy Bob, doesn't care for smoking at least partly on account of her dad having never returned from a cigarette run, and carries on the family tradition of philosophizing. Life hasn't done her any favors in her seventeen years so far. But if there was ever a heroine built for turning things upside down and seeing what shakes out, it's Dot. Determined to find out who she is and why she's the way she is, an opportunity...
Author
Series
Bad Kitty (Chapter books) volume 3
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Kitty's owners are taking a week off and leaving Kitty and Puppy at home with Uncle Murray. It isn't long before Uncle Murray is driven to near madness by shenanigans of epic proportions.
19) The mailbox
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Gabe tries to hide his uncle's death from the local authorities, he is not prepared for what happens when this secret is discovered.
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