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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
This magical adventure tells the spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old Lewis, who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart. But his new town's sleepy façade jolts to life with a secret world of warlocks and witches. Based on the beloved children's classic book.
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Guncle volume 1
Description
"Patrick O'Hara is a bit out of his league. Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for week-long visits, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. So when tragedy strikes and Patrick finds himself suddenly taking on the role of primary guardian, he is, honestly, overwhelmed. Patrick has no idea...
84) Pig Pig returns
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Series
Pig Pig books volume 6
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Pig Pig is concerned about travelling across the country with his aunt and uncle, but is even more worried when he returns.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"When Koo, a young panda, has a dream about saving the world, he worries that the job is too big for him to manage. But his Uncle Stillwater shows him that sometimes saving the world starts with doing little things, like being kind and considerate"--Provided by publisher.
86) The dead student
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Pub. Date
2015.
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"Timothy Warner, a PhD student who goes by the nickname "Moth," wakes up on his ninety-ninth day of sobriety with an intense craving for drink. He immediately calls his uncle Ed, a former alcoholic and now successful psychiatrist who has become Moth's mentor and father figure. Ed promises to meet him at an AA meeting later that day but never shows up. Moth bikes to his office only to discover a grisly scene: his uncle lying in a pool of blood, shot...
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Bad Kitty (Chapter books) volume 8
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Enter Uncle Murray, who's tasked with taking care of Puppy for the day, but that's when the trouble begins. When they go on a walk through the park, Uncle Murray almost gets himself arrested while Puppy ends up in the pound, where he meets some very peculiar new pals.
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Trouble follows Jenna Quinn wherever she goes. Fleeing some unsavory doings in her hometown of Charlotte, Jenna accepts her uncle's gracious invitation to stay with him in small-town Hokes Folly, NC. In exchange, she'll help him out in his antiquarian bookstore. But soon after she arrives, Jenna finds her uncle's body crumpled at the base of the staircase between his apartment and the bookstore. Before the tragedy even sinks in, Jenna learns that...
91) Sound Bender
Author
Series
Sound bender volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Description
After their parents are declared dead, Leo and his brother Hollis are taken in by a wealthy but distant step-uncle, and when, on his thirteenth birthday, Leo acquires the ability to hear sounds from the past when touching certain objects, he tries to use the skill to rescue a dolphin, whatever the cost.
93) Emile
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
When Emile is given the opportunity to travel from England to Victoria on Canada's west coast to receive an honorary degree at the university, he goes knowing that it might be his last chance to reconnect with his only living relatives.
94) The diviners
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Series
Diviners volume 1
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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.
95) Alligator bayou
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Fourteen-year-old Calogero Scalise and his Sicilian uncles and cousin live in small-town Louisiana in 1898, when Jim Crow laws rule and anti-immigration sentiment is strong, so despite his attempts to be polite and to follow American customs, disaster dogs his family at every turn.
96) Shades of gray
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At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and the uncle he considers a "traitor" because he refused to take part in the war.
97) Catmagic
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Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Lottie Grace doesn't want to spend the summer with her uncle while her mom works, but at least he owns a pet shop, where Lottie can play with the kittens and make friends with an adorable daschund. So when one day, her puppy pal starts to speak, Lottie realizes her summer is going to be even better than she could have imagined! Dr. Doolittle meets Roald Dahl! Cat Magic is the first in an enchanting new series about chatty kittens, dogs that bark in...
99) Fender lizards
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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
The unmistakable accent of the Piney Woods of East Texas rolls from the pages of Fender Lizards, Joe R. Lansdale���s tale of the life and love and work of one Dot Sherman, who delivers on her promise that her story is ���the real thing from beginning to end.��� 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...
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Skulduggery Pleasant volume 1
Description
When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from the Faceless Ones.