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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A brightly painted 40-page jacketed hardcover picture book illustrates the lyrics to the hit song We Don't Talk About Bruno from the multi-award winning movie, Disney Encanto. The art and text has been playfully arranged in an engaging way designed to delight children as they read or sing along.
5) 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
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.
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.
8) In Uncle Al
Author
Series
Andrew lost volume 16
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When an electric fish shrinks Andrew, Judy, and Thudd to the size of bacteria, they end up being injected by a mosquito into Uncle Al's bloodstream where they must battle germs, parasites, and white blood cells.
9) Bad hare day
Author
Series
Mutant Bunny Island volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Perry is invited back to Bunny Island for its first-ever Carrot Con, he's beyond happy to have the chance to reconnect with his favorite uncle, Zeke, and his friends, Juliet and Rain. After stopping Mayor Lapin and his dastardly plan to turn everyone into rabbits, Perry is psyched just to have a normal visit. But then freak microstorms pop up all over the island, ruining his fun before its even begun. Perry is quickly convinced that it isn't...
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.
12) 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.
Author
Series
Macca the alpaca volume 4
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Macca the alpaca is looking after his nieces and nephew and they are nothing but TROUBLE! Can Uncle Macca rein in this unruly trio?"--
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.
15) 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.
16) Bug in a rug
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Richard is self-conscious when he receives a pair of purple pants from his aunt and uncle and has to wear them to school, but he is even more worried when his uncle shows up for a visit to his classroom.
Author
Series
Poisons of Caux volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ivy Manx sets out with her new friend, a young "taster," to find her missing uncle, an outlawed healer, in the dangerous kingdom of Caux where magic, herbs, and poisons rule.
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.
Author
Series
Bad Kitty (Chapter books) volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Bad behavior reigns when Kitty's owners leave Kitty and Puppy at home for a week with Uncle Murray as their pet sitter. Includes a Q&A with the author.
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.
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