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Author
Series
Mutant Bunny Island volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Obert Skye, author of the bestselling Leven Thumps series, delivers a delightful mixture of offbeat mystery and laugh-out-loud humor in this thoroughly inventive adventure complete with comic-style illustrations, the first in a trilogy. Ten-year-old Perry Owens has learned everything he needs to know from comic books. So when Perry receives a troubling message from his favorite uncle, Zeke, he knows exactly what?s wrong. Obviously,...
Author
Series
Mickey Bolitar novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After tragic events tear Mickey Bolitar away from his parents, he is forced to live with his estranged Uncle Myron and switch high schools, where he finds both friends and enemies, but when his new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
517 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Cameron, a once much sought-after society beauty, is left in dire circumstances when her brother disappears, and things get worse when her hateful uncle offers her hand in marriage to all the discarded swains from her past.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When David goes out on his sailboat to scatter his recently deceased uncle's ashes to the wind, he is caught in a fierce storm and must survive many days on his own as he works out his feelings about life and his uncle.
9) Pillage
Author
Series
Pillage trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Upon his mother's death, fifteen-year-old Beck Phillips is sent to live with an eccentric uncle he had never met in a remote manor house, where he learns that his family suffers from a curse that allows him to make plants grow on command and dragon eggs hatch.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
11) Mansfield Park
Author
Language
English
Description
Fanny Price is born to a poor family, but is sent to her mother's rich relations to be brought up with her cousins. There she is treated as an inferior by all except her cousin Edmund, whose kindness towards her earns him her steadfast love. Fanny is quiet and obedient and does not come into her own until her elder cousins leave the estate following a scandalous play put on in their father's absence. Fanny's loyalty and love is tested by the beautiful
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Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1989, c1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
100 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Carley recalls the extraordinary summer when, as a troubled fourteen-year-old, he first came to northern Minnesota to stay with his blacksmith Uncle David and gained not only new skills but also a new sense of himself.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[48] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The letters that ten-year-old Christoph and his uncle exchange show how Christoph's feelings for Mr. Beethoven, the eccentric boarder that shares his house, change from anger and embarrassment to compassion and admiration.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Tom goes with his Uncle Harvey to Peru, where they narrowly escape imprisonment and death as they hunt for buried treasure after tracking down a journal written by John Drake, a young relative of Sir Francis Drake, on a voyage to Lima in 1577. Includes biographical information on John and Francis Drake.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price.
16) Uncle Pirate
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
100 p. : ill., music ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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.
17) The diviners
Author
Series
Diviners volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 59
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his grandfather finds out he is bankrupt, Geronimo is sent off to Moldy Manor where his miserly Uncle Stingysnout teaches him to be better at saving.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1852, when seventeen-year-old Katharine is sent to her family's estate to prove that her uncle is insane, she finds he is an inventor whose work creating ingenious clockwork figures supports hundreds of families, but strange occurences soon have her doubting her own sanity.
20) Wild things
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stubborn, self-reliant, eleven-year-old Zoe, recently orphaned, moves to the country to live with her prickly half-uncle, a famous doctor and sculptor, and together they learn about trust and the strength of family.
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