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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Hattie Owen prefers to be steeped in the familiarity of her small-town life rather than think about the vast world beyond her own. During the summer that Hattie turns 12, her world is turned upside down with the startling arrival of an uncle no one has ever spoken about.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Sixth-graders Russell and Shawn, poor and picked on, work together scooping dog droppings to earn money for a Rottweiler puppy to protect them from bullies, but when they learn the puppies' owner is running an illegal dog-fighting ring, they are torn about how to respond.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
As he searches for his uncle through the rugged Southwest canyon country, fourteen-year-old Clay becomes involved with a group of Navajo Indians who are trying to save some of the last wild mustangs. Fourteen-year-old Clay Lancaster has been dreaming for years of the adventure he calls The Big Wander -- a summer in the Southwest with his older brother, Mike, searching for their uncle Clay. When Mike decides to return home to Seattle and the girlfriend...
Author
Series
Clarice Bean (Picture books) volume 2
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When her Uncle Ted, the fireman, comes to stay with Clarice and her brothers and sister while her mother is away, things get somewhat hectic.
Author
Series
Klaatu diskos volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
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 on a time-twisting journey trailed by a shadowy sect of priests and haunted by ghostlike figures.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After his house burns down, twelve-year-old Wyatt Reaves takes off with his uncle, and the two of them drive from town to town for six years, earning money mostly by fighting, until Wyatt finally confronts his parents one last time.
19) The Gardener
Author
Series
Caldecott honor book volume 1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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.
Author
Pub. Date
1989, c1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Carley recalls the extraordinary summer when, as a troubled fourteen-year-old, he first came to northern Minnesota to stay with his blacksmith Uncle David and gained not only new skills but also a new sense of himself.