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Series
Silver Arrow volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
"Kate's humdrum life is transformed when her eccentric Uncle Herbert brings her a colossal locomotive train, the Silver Arrow, as her eleventh birthday gift, leading her and her younger brother on a mysterious quest"--Title verso page.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
770L
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
An "action-packed, danger-filled, Indiana Jones-like tale"—first in the Tom Trelawney series from the author of the Dragonsitter books (School Library Journal).
"Only boring people get bored . . . Interesting people can always find something to be interested in."
That's what Tom Trelawney's father says, anyway. Tom shouldn't have been interested in playing with matches but he was . . .
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Series
Way of the warrior kid volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
"Fifth grade was the worst year of Marc's life. He stunk at gym class, math was too hard for him, the school lunch was horrible, and his class field trip was ruined because he couldn't swim. But what was most awful thing about fifth grade? Kenny Williamson, the class bully, who calls himself the 'King of the Jungle.' When Marc's mother tells him that his Uncle Jake is coming to stay for the whole summer, Marc can't wait. Uncle Jake is a for real,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge.
8) 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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
"Milo Bolt is ready to be the hero of his own story. With Uncle Horatio trapped in an enchanted sleep by the power-hungry Alchemist, he sets off with his new friend Alessia to find a cure. As they search for clues, the pair find themselves at the magical treehouse--home of the Botanist, the Alchemist's sworn enemy. In their hunt for the cure, Milo and Alessia must forage in the Secret Garden, challenge Robin Hood, and confront the mighty Jabberwock....
10) Sky's end
Author
Series
Above the black volume 01
Language
English
Description
"Exiled to live as a Low, sixteen-year-old Conrad refuses to become heir to his murderous uncle. But Meritocracy is a harsh and unforgiving rule on the floating island of Holmstead, and when his ailing mother is killed by monstrous gorgantauns, Conrad cuts a deal to save the only family he has left. To rescue his sister from his uncle's clutches, Conrad must enter the Selection of the Twelve Trades."--
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
In seventeenth-century Scotland, sixteen-year-old Maggie Blair is sentenced to be hanged as a witch but escapes to the home of her uncle, placing him and his family in great danger as she risks her life to save them all from the King's men.
12) Pillage
Author
Series
Pillage trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price.
Author
Series
Bad Kitty volume 03
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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.
Author
Series
Samantha Spinner volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
"For Samantha Spinner, it just isn't fair. Her uncle Paul disappeared, and here's what he left: Samantha's sister got a check for
17) A spark unseen
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
When Katharine Tulman foils an attempt to kidnap her Uncle Tully, she finds herself caught up in international intrigue. Aware that there are people who want to turn her uncle's mechanical fish into an explosive device, and unsure of who to trust, she decides to fake her uncle's death and flee to Paris in search of Lane Moreau, her uncle's assistant.
19) Wildlord
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
16-year-old orphan Tom Swinton is not looking forward to spending the summer at his boarding school. So when he receives a strange message from his uncle James, inviting him to visit his Suffolk farm, he jumps at the chance. However, Tom quickly realizes that something is menacing Mundham Farm. But does it come from outside, or within? The mystery deepens when Tom finds old diaries describing a romance with a member of a supernatural race known as...
20) Wild things
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Stubborn, self-reliant, eleven-year-old Zoe, recently orphaned, moves to the country to live with her prickly half-uncle, a famous doctor and sculptor, and together they learn about trust and the strength of family.
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