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Language
English
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When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home
Author
Series
Mickey Bolitar novels volume 1
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
Language
English
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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. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge
Author
Series
Mickey Bolitar novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"When tragedy strikes close to home, Mickey Bolitar and his new friends find themselves at the center of a murder mystery"--
Author
Series
Tales of terror (Chris Priestley) volume 1
Language
English
Description
During a visit to his eccentric Uncle Montague to hear several grisly tales behind the unique artifacts in his collection, Edgar discovers the truth about his uncle's past
Author
Series
Rose legacy volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm
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
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
137 p. ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixth-graders Russell and Shawn, poor and picked on, work together scooping dog droppings to earn money for a Rottweiler puppy to protect them from bullies, but when they learn the puppies' owner is running an illegal dog-fighting ring, they are torn about how to respond
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 57
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's supposed to be a relaxing vacation, but instead Geronimo works his tail off fixing up an old castle. Worst. Vacation. Ever!" --
Author
Series
Cryptid hunters series volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
©2005
Physical Desc
348 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twins, Grace and Marty, along with a mysterious uncle, are dropped into the middle of the Congolese jungle in search of their missing photojournalist parents.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 59
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rancid rat hairs! I'd been spending so much money lately, I had none left in the bank! Even worse, when my grandfather found out, he sent me off to Moldy Manor. There, miserly Uncle Stingysnout would teach me to be better at saving. How terrible! Could I learn to be less wasteful without going crazy?" --
16) Terrible times
Author
Series
Eddie Dickens trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
145 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Leaving his parents, his Mad Uncle Jack, and his Even Madder Aunt Maud at home at Awful End, Eddie Dickens, along with the color-blind Lady Constance, boards the ship the Pompous Pig on a mission to America
17) Beetle boy
Author
Series
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.
18) The Silver Arrow
Author
Series
Silver Arrow volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
259 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Kate's humdrum life is transformed when her eccentric Uncle Herbert brings her a colossal locomotive train, the Silver Arrow, as her eleventh birthday gift, leading her and her younger brother on a mysterious quest.
Author
Series
Eddie Dickens trilogy volume 1
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2002, c2000
Physical Desc
119 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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
20) The funeral
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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...
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