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1) The gardener
Author
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.
Author
Series
The Quirks volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Quirks, a magical family living in Normal, Michigan, look forward to Halloween and the arrival of Uncle Cork from Scotland.
3) Uncle Pirate
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
Wilson is one of the most bullied fourth-graders at the chaotic Very Elementary School until his long-lost uncle, Desperate Evil Wicked Bob--a pirate--and his talking penguin arrive and begin making everything ship-shape, one classroom at a time.
Author
Series
Samantha Spinner series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
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
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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If You Like Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Read These!
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JF Once Upon A Summer Reading
If You Like Dog Man, Read These!
JF Once Upon A Summer Reading
Description
"Max and a group of friends dubbed the Midknights go on a quest to rescue the Kingdom of Byjovia from the mean King Gastley!"--
Author
Series
Silver Arrow volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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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
Samantha Spinner series volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Uncle Paul is still missing. And Samantha just received a new gift from him: a pair of strange purple sunglasses. Are they another powerful present? A clue to his whereabouts? Or just a bad fashion choice? Samantha and Nipper need to figure it out fast, because here comes the SUN!"--
11) Birdie and me
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Ever since their free-spirited mama died ten months ago, twelve-year-old Jack and her gender creative nine-year-old brother, Birdie, have been living with their fun-loving Uncle Carl, but now their conservative Uncle Patrick insists on being their guardian which forces all four of them to confront grief, prejudice, and loss, all while exploring what 'home' really means.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: The art of Auntieology and Uncleology is a sacred craft, but ten-year-old Leo has an Uncle Mo-a clueless stationery supply salesman with good intentions-who just doesn’t get it. Yet. The Secret Society of Aunts & Uncles is a madcap, magical adventure into the heart of what it means to have an aunt or uncle-how we learn to keep each other close and how we find love in the simplest things.
15) The Iron Tomb
Author
Series
Pyramid hunters volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Sam Force goes to Egypt to spend the summer with his uncle Jasper, he's ready for the usual summer vacation filled with museums and lessons about the pharaohs and ancient gods. Instead, Sam arrives at the airport and learns that his uncle is missing and wanted by the police. After narrowly escaping his own arrest, Sam sets off to find his uncle, using the series of clues that Jasper left behind. But a group of mysterious men are hot on his trail,...
16) The diviners
Author
Series
Diviners volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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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.
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