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21) Gifted
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Frank Adler is a single man raising a child prodigy, his spirited young niece Mary, in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn, whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary.
22) Bad ground
Author
Language
English
Formats
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.
23) Beetle boy
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Darkus Cuttle has taken care of his father ever since his mother died, but one day his father vanished from a locked vault at the Natural History Museum, and now he lives with his eccentric uncle--but one day he finds a large and unusually intelligent and self-aware beetle, and soon he and his two friends are caught up in a struggle to protect an intelligent super species of beetles.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tragic events ended John Cabrelli's career in law enforcement. Struggling to put his life back together, he moves to a cabin in northern Wisconsin that his uncle left to him. But the north woods can be dangerous, especially when John begins to question the suspicious circumstances of his uncle's death.
26) Starter villain
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
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.
29) Sky's end
Author
Series
Above the black volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Exiled to live as a Low, sixteen-year-old Conrad refuses to become heir to his murderous uncle. But Meritocracy is a harsh and unforgiving rule on the floating island of Holmstead, and when his ailing mother is killed by monstrous gorgantauns, Conrad cuts a deal to save the only family he has left. To rescue his sister from his uncle's clutches, Conrad must enter the Selection of the Twelve Trades. Hunter, the deadliest of all the Trades, gains a...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
Uncle Alex se apunta a la barbacoa de la familia García y trae una sorpresa. Una gran sorpresa verde. Al principio, Carlos y Carmen están decepcionados por esa sorpresa verde y abultada. Pero con la ayuda de su madre y con unas cuantas varillas y estacas, el bulto se convirtió en una sorpresa repleta de diversión.
For twins Carlos and Carmen, Uncle Alex's big green surprise turns into the best backyard camping experience ever.
Author
Series
Bad Kitty (Chapter books) volume 4
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Bad kitty is not pleased when a baby joins her family. Includes fun facts and tips for training a cat to perform tricks.
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
Carlos y Carmen se despiertan a un patio lleno de nieve. Cuando Uncle Alex viene a la casa, las bolas de nieve vuelan cuando las tres corren y juegan. Cuando llega el hambre, Uncle Alex está listo con una receta misteriosa Mexicana. ¡Los gemelos se sorprenden cuando se dan cuenta lo que está cocinando en el horno!
The fun begins when the twins wake up to a yard filled with snow. When Tío Alex comes over, the snowballs fly as the three run and...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
For their summer vacation, twelve-year-old twins Dipper and Mabel Pines travel to the enigmatic town of Gravity Falls, Oregon to spend the summer with their Great Uncle Stan Pines (often shortened to Grunkle Stan), who runs a tourist trap called the "Mystery Shack". Things are not what they seem in this small town, and with the help of a mysterious journal that Dipper finds in the forest, they begin unraveling the local mysteries.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
For their summer vacation, twelve-year-old twins Dipper and Mabel Pines travel to the fictitious town of Gravity Falls, Oregon to spend the summer with their Great Uncle Stan Pines (often shortened to Grunkle Stan), who runs a tourist trap called the "Mystery Shack". Things are not what they seem in this small town, and with the help of a mysterious journal that Dipper finds in the forest, they begin unraveling the local mysteries
35) Marc's mission
Author
Series
Way of the warrior kid volume 2
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"In this heartrending debut, Fatimah Asghar traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise one another. The youngest, Kausar, grapples with the incomprehensible loss of her parents as she also charts out her own understanding of gender; Aisha, the middle sister, spars with her "crybaby" younger sibling as she desperately tries to hold on to her sense of family in an impossible situation; and Noreen,...
37) Quinceanera
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
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.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After her mother's death, thirteen-year-old Opal moves to her uncle's farm where she befriends a group of orphaned, music-loving bats, and summons the courage to protect them from a mining company as she attempts to find them a new home.
Author
Series
Way of the warrior kid volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends Book, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
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 whole summer, Marc can't wait. Uncle Jake is a for real, super-cool...
Author
Series
Magnus Chase and the gods of Asgard volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Magnus Chase has seen his share of trouble. Ever since that terrible night two years ago when his mother told him to run, he has lived alone on the streets of Boston, surviving by his wits, staying one step ahead of the police and truant officers. One day, he's tracked down by an uncle he barely knows-a man his mother claimed was dangerous. Uncle Randolph tells him an impossible secret: Magnus is the son of a Norse god. The Viking myths are true....
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