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1) The mailbox
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Gabe tries to hide his uncle's death from the local authorities, he is not prepared for what happens when this secret is discovered.
Author
Series
Bad Kitty (Chapter books) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kitty's owners are taking a week off and leaving Kitty and Puppy at home with Uncle Murray. It isn't long before Uncle Murray is driven to near madness by shenanigans of epic proportions.
4) Uncle Buck
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Uncle Buck, an idle good-natured bachelor, is left in charge of his nephew and nieces during a family crisis. While his carefree ways easily charm the younger relatives, he meets more than a little hostility from Tia, his rebellious teenage niece, and Chanice, his impatient girlfriend.
Author
Series
Trinity Harbor volume 1
Language
English
Description
Sensible spinster Daisy Spencer decides to take in a precocious youngster, much to the town's surprise, and finds herself up against the boy's uncle, rugged D.C. cop Walker Ames, only to find herself attracted to him.
Set in the sleepy town of Trinity Cove, Va., Woods's newest (Stolen Moments, etc.) is a straightforward tale of love and redemption. For the first time in all her 30 years, sensible Sunday school teacher Daisy Spencer is rebelling....
7) The pursuit
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Melissa MacGregor is having a most difficult time finding a husband in the Highlands of Scotland. All her suitors have been scared off by one or more of 16 strapping uncles, and now no man will dare come near her, save one.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
1987. There’s only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus, and that’s her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn’s company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June’s world is turned upside down. But Finn’s death brings a surprise...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
1160L
Language
English
Description
"Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin. There Donal is in for a rude surprise: Aunt Kate-bossy,...
10) Seconds away
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Mickey and new friends Ema and Spoon tracking down pieces of a mysterious puzzle and learning dangerous secrets about Mickey's father's death.
11) Shelter
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
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.
12) The dead student
Author
Language
English
Description
Refusing to believe his uncle killed himself, Timothy "Moth" Warner calls on the only person he can trust, Andrea Martine, an ex-girlfriend, to find out the truth.
13) Uncle Elephant
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Uncle Elephant comes to the rescue when his nephew's parents are lost at sea and cares for him until they are found again.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town. Twelve-year-old Hattie learns that living life fully means facing both the good times and the bad upon the closing of her Uncle Adam's "school"- an institution for the mentally disabled.
17) Found
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Mickey Bolitar and his friends continue to investigate the Abeona Shelter, while Mickey searches for answers about his father's tragic death"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Primrose, who lives in a small fishing village in British Columbia, recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.
19) The rose legacy
Author
Series
Rose legacy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
"When orphaned Anthea Thornley receives a letter from her long-lost uncle, she dares to dream that she'll finally find a home where she is wanted. Upon her arrival, Anthea is shocked to learn that her uncle secretly breeds horses--animals that have been forbidden in her kingdom for centuries. More alarming is Anthea's strange ability to sense the horses' thoughts and feelings, an ancient gift called the Way. Confused and terrified, Anthea is desperate...
20) The gardener
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 570L
Language
English
Formats
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.
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