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My aunt and uncle
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Mary Auld |
Explains, in brief text and illustrations, the meaning of the terms "aunt" and "uncle" and describes their roles in a family and their relationship with their nieces and nephews. |
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Uncle monarch and the Day of the Dead
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Judy Goldman |
Upon the death of her beloved Tio Urbano, who has taught her that monarch butterflies are the souls of the dead, young Lupita gains a deeper understanding of Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead, … |
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The gardener
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Sarah Stewart |
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. |
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I Can't Take You Anywhere!
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
When the klutzy Amy Audrey Perkins is as good as gold at Aunt Linda's wedding her relatives are so surprised that they have an accident. |
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Herbie Jones and the monster ball
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Suzy Kline |
Strike-out king, Herbie Jones, feels that the summer is ruined when his uncle arrives to coach a baseball team and asks Herbie to join up. |
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The Voyage of the Frog
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Gary Paulsen |
When David goes out on his sailboat to scatter his recently deceased uncle's ashes to the wind, he is caught in a fierce storm and must survive many days on his own as he works out his feelings about… |
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Petronella saves nearly everyone
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Dene Low |
In the spring of 1903 at her country estate, Petronella Arbuthnot faces an enormous dilemma during her sixteenth-birthday festivities as important guests disappear, kidnapping notes appear, and Uncle… |
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Rough waters
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S. L. Rottman |
After their parents' death in an automobile accident, two teenage brothers are sent to Colorado to live with an estranged uncle, owner of a white-water rafting business. |
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Emily's fortune
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
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 Un… |
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The Sign of the Sinister Sorcerer (Lewis Barnavelt #12)
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Brad Strickland |
In Michigan in the mid-1950s, Lewis Barnavelt is convinced that the series of accidents he and his uncle are experiencing are the result of a curse by a mysterious, hooded figure that may be part of … |
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The Keepers' tattoo
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Gill Arbuthnott |
Months before her fifteenth birthday, Nyssa learns that she is a special member of a legendary clan, the Keepers of Knowledge, as she and her uncle try to escape from Alaric, the White Wolf, who want… |
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Phantoms in the snow
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Kathleen Benner Duble |
In 1944, fifteen-year-old Noah Garrett, recently orphaned, is sent to live at Camp Hale, Colorado, with an uncle he has never met, and there he finds his pacifist views put to the test. |
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Henry and Mudge and the tall tree house
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Cynthia Rylant |
Henry is excited when his Uncle Jake builds him a tree house but worries that his dog Mudge will not be able to enjoy it with him. |
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The obsidian blade
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Pete Hautman |
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 … |
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Sailing to freedom
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Martha Bennett Stiles |
Twelve-year-old Ray is in trouble from the moment he and his monkey, Allie, board the Newburyport Beauty. But when bounty hunters come looking for a runaway slave, it’s Ray and Allie who must save hi… |
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The shadow mask
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Lin Oliver |
Leo's cruel and greedy Uncle Crane is forcing him to use his ability to hear sounds from the past to find to steal the other half of the mysterious Siamese twin mask that was once owned by Leo's fath… |
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After the river the sun
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Dia Calhoun |
After his parents' death, his own near-drowning, and months in foster care, twelve-year-old Eckhart Lyon moves to his Uncle Al's orchard on trial but yearns for a real home, and with new friend Eva's… |
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The Rogue's Reform
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Regina Scott |
Jerome Everard expected to inherit his wayward uncle's estate. Instead, all has gone to a secret daughter. Only by disproving his young cousin's claim can Jerome regain his rightful property. But ins… |
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Tentacles by Roland Smith
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Roland Smith |
This is a Very exiting book. Luther and Marty two best friends and Marty's thought to be twin sister, Grace go in a adventure in a boat. Noah Blackwood, Grace's Grandfather tries to kidnap Grace with… |
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The sultan's tigers
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Josh Lacey |
Tom, who comes from a long line of criminals, travels with his roguish uncle to India to find a family treasure--an antique jewel-encrusted tiger stolen from the sultan's throne hundreds of years ago. |
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