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Author
Series
Amelia Bedelia series volume 28
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Amelia Bedelia, the literal-minded housekeeper, takes a vacation at her Uncle Buck's dude ranch.
Author
Series
Bad Kitty (Chapter books) volume 5
Language
English
Description
Uncle Murray takes Puppy on a walk on a day that Bad Kitty is being unusually difficult, but has several unpleasant encounters with a police officer and one mean dog along the way. Text is interspersed with information about dog behavior, pet care, and more.
6) The gardener
Author
Pub. Date
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In 1934, during the Depression, Kit's cantankerous uncle comes to live in the Cincinnati boardinghouse run by her parents, enlisting her aid in transcribing his complaining letters to the editor of the local newspaper and inspiring her to write a different kind of letter of her own.
8) Wolf song
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
At twilight, Nell and her Uncle Walter go into the north woods, hoping to hear--and join--the howling of the wolves. Includes facts about wolves and howling expeditions.
9) Gumption!
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
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.
Author
Series
Children of the lamp volume 1
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old twins Philippa and John discover that they are descended from a long line of djinn, their mother sends them away to their Uncle Nimrod, who takes them to Cairo where he starts to teach them about their extraordinary powers.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 59
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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.
12) Cryptid hunters
Author
Series
Cryptid hunters series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
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.
13) Tentacles
Author
Series
Cryptid hunters series volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After the mysterious disappearance of their parents, Marty and Grace go to live with their scientist uncle and accompany him on, what soon becomes, an increasingly dangerous expedition to New Zealand to track a giant squid.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Following his botanist uncle's suggestion, Max secretly scatters flower seeds all over the city.
Max plants seeds given to him by an uncle and the town comes to life with flowers and color and his class picks the flowers, draws them and studies them.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
From the moment he wakes up, Buster Bicke is full of big ideas but when he tries them out he never fails to get into trouble at home or in school, so his mother takes him to visit his Uncle Roswell, an inventor, who needs some help only Buster can provide.
16) Jungle of bones
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When sullen teenager Dylan Barstow is caught joyriding in a stolen car he is sent to his ex-Marine uncle for the summer, but soon they are on the way to Papua New Guinea in search of a World War II fighter plane and Dylan discovers that defiance is not a survival skill when you are lost in a jungle.
Author
Series
The Quirks volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Quirks, a magical family living in Normal, Michigan, look forward to Halloween and the arrival of Uncle Cork from Scotland.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
19) The Rose legacy
Author
Series
Rose legacy volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Orphaned Anthea Cross hopes to finally find a home with her long-lost uncle, but she soon learns not only that he secretly breeds forbidden horses, but that she can communicate with them.
20) Uncle Pirate
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
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