Scattergood, Augusta.
Summary: Sixth-grader Theo leaves everything behind to live with his Uncle Chester, a Vietnam War veteran and loner, in Destiny, Florida, but he is drawn to play the piano in Miss Sister's dance school and soon makes friends with the feisty Anabel, a baseball fanatic who invites Theo to help solve a mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SCAWillink, Jocko
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2018
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Summary: As part of his thirteenth birthday Jimmy Benge is spending a week ice fishing with his friend, Ryan, in northern Minnesota at his Cherokee family's lakeside home; one day they get permission to go out further on the lake to try for Northern pike, and Jimmy catches a beauty--but a sudden snow squall turns the situation dangerous and as the boys pack up to make their way back, Uncle Kenny's ATV...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COULeonard, M. G. (Maya Gabrielle)
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEOMcDonald, Kirsten
Summary: It is the first snow of the season, and Tío Alex comes over to play with the twins, and cook them a special secret surprise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MCDReagan, Jean
Summary: "New hiking boots call for a hiking adventure! Pack your backpack with snacks, water, and a map, and join an uncle and his nephew as they head out for their trip, but this time, the kids lead the way!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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2 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN REABruel, Nick
Summary: When a walk in the park with Uncle Murray lands Puppy in the pound, Puppy meets some very peculiar new pals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FICTION BRUDoig, Ivan.
Summary: Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOIStilton, Geronimo
Summary: "Rancid rat hairs! I'd been spending so much money lately, I had none left in the bank! Even worse, when my grandfather found out, he sent me off to Moldy Manor. There, miserly Uncle Stingysnout would teach me to be better at saving. How terrible! Could I learn to be less wasteful without going crazy?" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STIDoig, Ivan.
Summary: "In the spirit of The Bartender's Tale, a lively and poignant coming-of-age story about a boy and his great-uncle on a cross-country odyssey. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION DOIStine, R. L.
Summary: The only thing to fear . . . is everything. Twins Betty and Billy are visiting their Uncle Wendell at his secluded house in the Wayward Forest. What they think is going to be a boring stay quickly turns into a real nightmare. Wendell is in possession of the scariest book in the world. And someone is after Wendell. To keep the book safe, the siblings will have to plunge directly into the heart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2023
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Summary: When her Uncle Ted, the fireman, comes to stay with Clarice and her brothers and sister while her mother is away, things get somewhat hectic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHIMiller, Kirsten
Summary: People say the house is cursed. It preys on the weakest, and young women are its favorite victims. Bram wanted was to disappear from her old life and the scandal that continues to haunt her. She ends up in Louth, a tiny town on the Hudson River where her uncle, James, has been renovating an old mansion. Months earlier his beloved wife died in a fire that people say was set by her daughter. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MILMcDonald, Kirsten
Summary: For twins Carlos and Carmen, Uncle Alex's big green surprise turns into the best backyard camping experience ever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MCDParish, Herman.
Summary: Amelia Bedelia, the literal-minded housekeeper, takes a vacation at her Uncle Buck's dude ranch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PARPeirce, Lincoln
Summary: "Max and a group of friends dubbed the Midknights go on a quest to rescue the Kingdom of Byjovia from the mean King Gastley!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PEICopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC PEISachar, Louis
Summary: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SACGarlick, Nicholas
Summary: His mother left three years ago, so when twelve-year-old Flip's thieving father dies he goes to live with his stern and hostile uncle on the remote Dutch island of Mossum; there he works on the farm, dreams of his mother coming to get him, deals with thelocal bullies, and his only "friend' is a strange, mute girl whom he thinks of as the ghost girl--until he rescues a horse from the stormy sea...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, Scholastic Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GARGyllenhaal, Jake
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GYLLindsey, Johanna.
Summary: The charisma between Melissa MacGregor and Lincoln Burnett is undeniable from the moment they meet. Melissa's uncles, however, detest Lincoln and go to great lengths to keep the two lovers apart. Their love endures nonetheless, and after passing test after test, their romance may very well end happily.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LINWillink, Jocko
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish / Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2018
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1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Fiction Series WillinkMedina, Nick
Summary: "A man lunges in front of a car. An elderly woman silently drowns herself. A corpse sits up in its coffin and speaks. On this reservation, not all is what it seems, in this new spine-chilling mythological horror from the author of Sisters of the Lost Nation. All Noemi Broussard wanted was a fresh start. With a new boyfriend who actually treats her right and a plan to move from the reservation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024
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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
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Summary: When his Uncle Jesse heads to the Pike's Peak region of the Rocky Mountains to look for gold, Early Wittcomb follows in hopes of raising enough money to save the family farm, but the journey west is full of hardships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2008