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41) Secondhand lions
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Language
English
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Description
To the rest of the world, Garth and Hub are mysterious old men hiding millions. But to Walter, they are family - and now they're about to lead him on an adventure he'll never forget. Winner of two Awards of Excellence and a Seal of Approval.
42) A ghost story
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
When Uncle Pete comes to visit, he listens to Celeste's singing and helps Jonathan get rid of the ghost that's been causing trouble.
44) Sweet on you
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Britt and Zander have been best friends since they met thirteen years ago, and Zander has been in love with her all those years. When Zander's uncle dies of mysterious causes, he returns to Merryweather, Washington. As they work together to uncover his uncle's tangled past, will the truth of what lies between them come to light?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
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Description
What would you do to inherit a million dollars? Would you be willing to change your life? Jason Stevens is about to find out in Jim Stovall's The Ultimate Gift. Red Stevens has died, and the older members of his family receive their millions with greedy anticipation. But a different fate awaits young Jason, whom Stevens, his great-uncle, believes may be the last vestige of hope in the family. "Although to date your life seems to be a sorry excuse...
47) Pillage
Author
Series
Language
English
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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
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Jim the Boy is a coming-of-age novel by Tony Earley, published by Little, Brown and Co. in 2000. It details a year in the life of Jim Glass, who lives, with his mother and three uncles, in the small fictional town of Aliceville, North Carolina in 1934 during the Great Depression.
51) A river dream
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
While sick in bed, a young boy opens a box from his uncle and embarks on a fantastical fishing trip.
52) Choke
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Using his renowned lack of common sense, sixteen-year-old Beck Phillips gets himself and his friends Kate and Wyatt embroiled in dragon adventures, as they discover and hatch the last dragon stone.
53) Gifted
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
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.
54) The pursuit
Author
Series
Sherring Cross volume 3
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A young Scottish woman from an all-male household must navigate the ministrations of her sixteen meddling uncles when a handsome suitor arrives on the scene.
Author
Language
English
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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.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
This magical adventure tells the spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old Lewis, who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart. But his new town's sleepy façade jolts to life with a secret world of warlocks and witches. Based on the beloved children's classic book.
59) Storm rider
Publisher
ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A spoiled teenage girl must leave her posh New York City life behind when her father is arrested for securities fraud and she is forced to move out to her uncle's house in the country.
60) Stoker
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When a teenaged girl's father dies, her uncle whom she never knew existed comes to move in with her, and she soon discovers his ulterior motives.
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