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41) Alligator bayou
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Fourteen-year-old Calogero Scalise and his Sicilian uncles and cousin live in small-town Louisiana in 1898, when Jim Crow laws rule and anti-immigration sentiment is strong, so despite his attempts to be polite and to follow American customs, disaster dogs his family at every turn.
42) Uncle Elephant
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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.
43) Catmagic
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Lottie Grace doesn't want to spend the summer with her uncle while her mom works, but at least he owns a pet shop, where Lottie can play with the kittens and make friends with an adorable daschund. So when one day, her puppy pal starts to speak, Lottie realizes her summer is going to be even better than she could have imagined! Dr. Doolittle meets Roald Dahl! Cat Magic is the first in an enchanting new series about chatty kittens, dogs that bark in...
Author
Series
Adventures in extreme reading volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Carter Lewis's Uncle Dan has invented a suit that creates a virtual reality world so that the person experiences and interacts with a book as if he were actually there--but when Carter and his cousin Isabelle put on the suits they discover that a hacker is playing games with them.
46) A spark unseen
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
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.
Author
Series
Samantha Spinner series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Samantha's uncle mysteriously disappears, leaving behind extravagant gifts for her siblings and an old, rusty, red umbrella for Samantha that may contain clues to his whereabouts.
52) Rough waters
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Marisa Conchito wants to make an old-fashioned vampire movie for her online audience, and she has decided that her older brother Lorenzo will make a good vampire (certainly scarier than the kids who have auditioned) and Lorenzo's friend Jeff has volunteered his uncle Felix's house as a set; Felix was an actor in horror movies, and his house is definitely creepy, in fact, he is pretty creepy himself (especially since Jeff thought he was dead)--there...
Author
Series
Oona Crate mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In 1877, in an enchantment shop on the last of the Faerie roads linking New York City to the Land of the Fey, just after twelve-year-old Oona opts to relinquish her apprenticeship to her uncle, the Wizard, and become a detective, her uncle is stabbed, testing her skills.
55) The mailbox
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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
Way of the warrior kid volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
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,...
57) I'll say goodbye
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"With the help of a pet hermit crab, a child finds a way to say goodbye to Uncle Mike after his death from cancer."--
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When his great-uncle Daney comes to live with Cole's family after being crippled in a logging accident, the two work together all summer to find a way to make enough money to buy feed so they can keep Daney's old horse.
59) Sound Bender
Author
Series
Sound bender volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
After their parents are declared dead, Leo and his brother Hollis are taken in by a wealthy but distant step-uncle, and when, on his thirteenth birthday, Leo acquires the ability to hear sounds from the past when touching certain objects, he tries to use the skill to rescue a dolphin, whatever the cost.
60) Tentacles
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
After the mysterious disappearance of their parents, Marty and Grace go to live with their scientist uncle. When they accompany him on an expedition to New Zealand to track a giant squid, they discover that the freighter may be haunted and discover evidence that someone aboard may be out to sabotage the mission.