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81) Marc's mission
Author
Series
Way of the warrior kid volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Marc hopes that his Uncle Jake can help him turn around his terrible summer, which he has to spend at camp with Nathan James, who is mean and annoying, while longing for a fancy new bike his parents will not buy him.
82) The Big Wander
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
As he searches for his uncle through the rugged Southwest canyon country, fourteen-year-old Clay becomes involved with a group of Navajo Indians who are trying to save some of the last wild mustangs.
Author
Series
Little Wolf Adventures volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
In a series of letters to his parents, Little Wolf describes his attempts to create "the scariest school in the world" and convince his ghostly Uncle Bigbad to teach a magic class.
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1877, in an enchantment shop on the last of the Faerie roads linking New York City to the Land of the Fey, just after twelve-year-old Oona opts to relinquish her apprenticeship to her uncle, the Wizard, and become a detective, her uncle is stabbed, testing her skills.
86) Bad ground
Author
Language
English
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Description
W. Dale Cramer evokes the ambiance of a small Southern town in this inspiring novel. Jeremy's mother has passed away, leaving him with an odd request. He is to find his Uncle Aiden, a hardrock miner, and stay with him, regardless of Aiden's wishes. Jeremy's faith in God gives him the courage to find the humanity behind this tough-as-steel man.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"The story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumor, touching on everything from family violence to sexuality and the personal struggle to remain intact in times of intense trauma"--Provided by publisher.
88) Find him
Author
Language
English
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Description
A pregnant teenager and her black sheep uncle search for her missing boyfriend and father of her child through the criminal underworld of the Arkansas/Tennessee border.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Harrison Beck is reluctantly joining his travel-writer Uncle Nat for the last journey of the royal train, The Highland Falcon. But as the train makes its way to Scotland, a priceless brooch goes missing, and things suddenly get a lot more interesting. As suspicions and accusations run high among the passengers, Harrison begins to investigate and uncovers a few surprises along the way. Can he solve the mystery of the jewel thief and catch the culprit...
Author
Series
Guncle volume 1
Language
English
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"Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), loves his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for visits. But in terms of caretaking and relating to two children, Patrick is honestly out of his league. So when tragedy strikes and Maisie and Grant lose their mother and Patrick's brother has a health crisis, Patrick finds himself taking on the role of primary guardian. Quickly...
91) Wildlord
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Something is menacing Mundham farm. Does it come from outside, or from within? Who or what are the Samdhya, the supernatural people described in the old handwritten diaries Tom finds in his uncle's house?As Tom starts to uncover the truth, he is confronted with a stark choice: on the one hand, infinite power; on the other, freedom. Which will he choose?"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Klaatu diskos volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After thirteen-year-old Tucker Feye's parents disappear, he suspects that the strange disks of shimmering air that he keeps seeing are somehow involved, and when he steps inside of one he is whisked on a time-twisting journey trailed by a shadowy sect ofpriests and haunted by ghostlike figures.
96) Quinceanera
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
On the evening before Magdalena's 15th birthday, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Forced to leave her house, she finds a new family with her uncle and gay cousin.
Publisher
Adlabs Films Limited
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Hindi
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Description
After the demise of her parents, a young girl is taken under the wing of her uncle. When she becomes of age to be married her loving uncle arranges a marriage through a matchmaker and the story unfolds about the engagement and the fortunate falling love of the young couple.
98) The wild book
Author
Language
English
Description
A story of a boy who goes to live with his kooky, book-obsessed uncle in a library where books have a supernatural power all their own.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tumblehome, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Sun, storms, and mystery in the Caribbean. Ever since moving to New York to live with his uncle, thirteen-year-old Henry Alabaster has been involved in one foggy mystery after another. That's because Henry's uncle, Kelvin McCloud, is a weather detective-someone who specializes in solving stormy problems. When an anonymous letter implores Kelvin to come to the Caribbean, Henry and his uncle are swept up in their most adventurous case yet-one which...
100) Any bitter thing
Author
Language
English
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Description
A gripping and compassionate tale of family and faith, whispers and accusations, and the deeply hidden truths we're compelled to uncover.
After surviving a near-fatal accident, thirty-year-old Lizzy Mitchell faces a long road to recovery. She remembers little about the days she spent in and out of consciousness, save for one thing: She saw her beloved deceased uncle, Father Mike, the man who raised her in the rectory of his Maine church until...