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Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
It is 1987, and only one person has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus -- 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 acquaintance...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
"In the spirit of The Bartender's Tale, a lively and poignant coming-of-age story about a boy and his great-uncle on a cross-country odyssey. 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...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From dystopian visionary and bestselling phenomenon Veronica Roth comes a razor-sharp reimagining of Antigone. In Arch-Conspirator, Roth reaches back to the root of legend and delivers a world of tomorrow both timeless and unexpected. "A gut punch of a story. Roth takes everything fragile about love, everything powerful about certain doom, and blooms with it. You'll be holding your breath until the very last word."-Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Timothy Warner, a PhD student who goes by the nickname "Moth," wakes up on his ninety-ninth day of sobriety with an intense craving for drink. He asks his uncle Ed, a former alcoholic and now successful psychiatrist, to meet him at an AA meeting later that day. When Ed doesn't show up, Moth bikes to his office and discovers a grisly scene -- his uncle lying in a pool of blood, shot through the temple. The police pronounce the death a suicide, but...
5) The gardener
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
Caldecott honor book : 1998.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
An inspirational story of what truly matters in life.
What would you do to inherit a million dollars? Would you be willing to change your life? Jason Stevens is about to find out in Jim Stovall's The Ultimate Gift.
Red Stevens has died, and the older members of his family receive their millions with greedy anticipation. But a different fate awaits young Jason, whom Stevens, his great-uncle, believes may be the last vestige
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In the small Lake Erie township of Benning, someone is at work cultivating a supernatural garden ... Andy Kemp's young life has been as ravaged as his scarred face. Disfigured by an abusive father, the teenager hides behind his books and an impenetrable wall of cynicism and anger. As Andy's mother struggles to reconnect with him, his Uncle Rip returns transformed from a stint in prison and wants to be a mentor to the reclusive boy, doing everything...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Newbery Honor Book: 2003.
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.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Lady Anne Stone believes she's found her long lost uncle. Unwilling to meet him on her own, Daniel Adams accompanies her to her uncle's ranch. But both Dan and Anne are convinced that the man introduced as her uncle is an imposter and decide to continue the search for the new Earl of Stoneford. And the swindler is now on their trail, hoping to steal Uncle David's inheritance. Dan tries to protect Anne and also his heart. He's good at keeping her safe,...
14) The Rose legacy
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orphaned Anthea Cross hopes to finally find a home with her long-lost uncle, but she soon learns not only that he secretly breeds forbidden horses, but that she can communicate with them.--Provided by Publisher.
15) The Silver Arrow
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
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.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"In the wake of WWII, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper: a rallying cry for hope, purpose . . . and rocks. Its message? Send me a rock for the person you lost, and I will build something life-giving. When the poem spreads farther than he ever intended, Robert Bliss's humble words change the tide of a nation. Boxes of rocks inundate the tiny, coastal Maine town, and he sets his calloused hands to work. Decades later, Annie Sawyer...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
19) Missing May
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
This critically acclaimed winner of the Newbery Medal joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!
Ever since May, Summer's aunt and good-as-a-mother for the past six years, died in the garden among her pole beans and carrots, life for Summer and her Uncle Ob has been as bleak as winter. Ob doesn't want to create his beautiful whirligigs anymore, and he and Summer have slipped...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.