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1) The pursuit
Author
Series
Sherring Cross series volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey's wonderfully delightful sequel to Say You Love Me.
What was to be a grand adventure for Melissa MacGregor-an escape from the wilds of her Scottish home into the whirl of the London social scene-seems to pale before the promise in the passionate gaze of Lincoln Ross Burnett. Though they exchange but a few words before parting after a chance encounter on her grandfather's lands, Melissa instantly...
Author
Series
Pig Pig books volume 6
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Pig Pig is concerned about travelling across the country with his aunt and uncle, but is even more worried when he returns.
Author
Series
Mickey Bolitar novels volume 1
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 new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be.
6) The gardener
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1998, 1997.
Language
English
Description
A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.
8) Pillage
Author
Series
Pillage trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2010], c2008
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 hatch dragon eggs and make plants grow on command.
9) Gumption
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When Peter goes on an African adventure with his beloved Uncle Nigel, who hopes to spot a rare gorilla, the oblivious Nigel urges Peter on by telling him to have gumption, while Peter keeps his eyes open and uses his ingenuity.
10) The Silver Arrow
Author
Series
Silver Arrow volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kate's humdrum life is transformed when her eccentric Uncle Herbert brings her a colossal locomotive train, the Silver Arrow, as her eleventh birthday gift, leading her and her younger brother on a mysterious quest.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Preparing for her family's annual tradition of picking apples, making applesauce, and listening to her Uncle Arthur tell his tall tales, young Faith comforts her uncle, who has lost his zest for stories in the aftermath of losing his wife.
14) Mountain dog
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Chloe is jealous and sad when her favorite uncle announces that he will be getting married, but as she gets to know Jamie better and becomes involved in planning the wedding, she discovers that she will always be special to Uncle Bobby--and to Uncle Jamie, too.
16) Birdie and me
Author
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Ever since their free-spirited mama died ten months ago, twelve-year-old Jack and her gender creative nine-year-old brother, Birdie, have been living with their fun-loving Uncle Carl, but now their conservative Uncle Patrick insists on being their guardian which forces all four of them to confront grief, prejudice, and loss, all while exploring what 'home' really means"--
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Bram moves to the small town of Louth in order to help her uncle start his new inn, but when she discovers a legacy of silenced women tied to her new home, she sets out to investigate the truth behind the town's 'Dead Girl' myths"--
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 57
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Heading to Penny Pincher Castle to visit his uncle for what he thinks will be a nice vacation, Geronimo is instead put to work.
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