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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.
Author
Publisher
E.P. Dutton
Pub. Date
[1983]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Carley recalls the extraordinary summer when, as a troubled fourteen-year-old, he first came to northern Minnesota to stay with his blacksmith Uncle David and gained not only new skills but also a new sense of himself.
Author
Series
Sherring Cross series volume 3
Language
English
Description
Exchanging a passionate gaze with Melissa MacGregor in the wilds of Scotland, Lincoln Ross Burnett knows he will never be complete until Melissa is his bride. But serious obstacles impede Lincoln: all 16 of Melissa's disapproving uncles.
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
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.
10) The cardturner
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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
Way of the warrior kid volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Fifth grade was the worst year of Marc's life. He stunk at gym class, math was too hard for him, the school lunch was horrible, and his class field trip was ruined because he couldn't swim. But what was most awful thing about fifth grade? Kenny Williamson, the class bully, who calls himself the 'King of the Jungle.' When Marc's mother tells him that his Uncle Jake is coming to stay for the whole summer, Marc can't wait. Uncle Jake is a for real, super-cool...
Author
Series
Samantha Spinner series volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A woman inherits a beloved bookstore and sets forth on a journey of self-discovery in this poignant debut about family, forgiveness and a love of reading. Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric uncle Billy's bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. But on Miranda's twelfth birthday, Billy has a mysterious falling-out with her mother and suddenly disappears from Miranda's life. She doesn't hear about...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the mid-eighteen hundreds, while serving as cook's apprentice on his uncle's schooner with his pet monkey, Allie, twelve-year-old Ray discovers that they are transporting a fugitive slave to the free north.
15) The star maker
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
With the help of his popular Uncle Chester, a young Chinese American boy tries hard to fulfill a promise to have firecrackers for everyone on the Chinese New Year in 1954. Includes an afterword with information about the Chinese customs portrayed in the story.
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