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21) Pillage
Author
Series
Pillage trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Klaatu diskos volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After thirteen-year-old Tucker Feye's parents disappear, he suspects that the strange disks of shimmering air that he keeps seeing are somehow involved, and when he steps inside of one he is whisked on a time-twisting journey trailed by a shadowy sect of priests and haunted by ghostlike figures.
23) Alligator bayou
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
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.
25) A bitter magic
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Cisley's mother, who controls real magic, disappears during a magic act, Cisley is left with her cold, distant uncle and a great mystery which will only be solved if she can summon her own magic.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his father is reported dead and his wicked uncle takes over the castle, eleven-year-old Shan hides his father's precious sword and, after escaping with his mother, makes his way to King Arthur's court to seek help in winning back his inheritance.
30) The Big Wander
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
As he searches for his uncle through the rugged Southwest canyon country, fourteen-year-old Clay becomes involved with a group of Navajo Indians who are trying to save some of the last wild mustangs.
Author
Series
Cryptid hunters series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Twins, Grace and Marty, along with a mysterious uncle, are dropped into the middle of the Congolese jungle in search of their missing photojournalist parents.
32) 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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
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. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge.
35) Found
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's been eight months since Mickey Bolitar witnessed the death of his father. Eight months of lies, dark secrets, and unanswered questions. Mickey's sophomore year brings on its own set of troubles: Ema surprises with news that she has an online boyfriend, and he's vanished. As he's searching for Ema's missing boyfriend, Mickey and his friends are pulled deeper into the mysteries of the Abeona Shelter, risking their lives, until Mickey finally comes...
36) Uncle Pirate
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer"--
Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. He loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, When Maisie and Grant lose their mother and...
39) Emily's fortune
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
While traveling to her aunt's home in Redbud by train and stagecoach, quiet young Emily and her turtle, Rufus, team up with Jackson, fellow orphan and troublemaker extraordinaire, to outsmart mean Uncle Victor, who is after Emily's inheritance.
40) The mailbox
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Gabe tries to hide his uncle's death from the local authorities, he is not prepared for what happens when this secret is discovered.
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