Walliams, David
Summary: "1940. BRITAIN IS AT WAR WITH NAZI GERMANY. Eleven-year-old Eric practically lives at the London Zoo. And there's one animal in particular he loves to spend time with: Gertrude the gorilla. But with German bombs raining over London, Eric realizes Gertrude is in terrible danger, and together with his Uncle Sid, a keeper at the zoo, the three go on the run. But while hiding out at the seaside,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WALEngle, Margarita.
Summary: When his mother is sent to jail in Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Tony goes to live with his forest ranger great-uncle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Tony experiences unconditional love for the first time through his friendship with a rescue dog.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ENGBeil, Michael D.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Nicholas and his ten-year-old twin sisters, Hetty and Haley, spend the summer with their great-uncle Nick at Forsaken Lake, where he and their new friend Charlie investigate the truth about an accident involving their families many years before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BEIDeFelice, Cynthia C.
Summary: "A middle-grade summer adventure about two boys who build an awesome fort and tangle with two older bullies"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DEFBaptist, Kelly J.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Xavier Moon gets the courage to step out of the shadows when his great-uncle gives him some outlandish socks and some even stranger requests.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BAPStovall, Jim.
Summary: When his great uncle dies, the young, rather arrogant, Jason must repeatedly return to the attorney's office for a series of videotaped life lessons in order to earn his million dollar inheritance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STOJones, Diana Wynne.
Summary: When Charmain is asked to housesit for Great Uncle William, the Royal Wizard of Norland, she is ecstatic to get away from her parents, but finds that his house is much more than it seems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JONKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: "Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He's not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn't know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time. Stranger yet is what's inside the crate. He's a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024