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42) Happily for now
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Spending the summer with relatives, a take-charge girl tackles the challenges of her aunt's failing bakery, her great-uncle's unique ways of communicating, and her great-aunt's perpetual gloom, before discovering that she, herself, may need help"--
Author
Series
Trixie Belden volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Not long after her family becomes wealthy, Diana Lynch's long-lost uncle appears and starts ruining her social life, causing Trixie Belden to investigate whether Uncle Monty is an imposter out to steal the Lynch fortune.
Author
Series
Poisons of Caux volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ivy Manx sets out with her new friend, a young "taster, " to find her missing uncle, an outlawed healer, in the dangerous kingdom of Caux where magic, herbs, and poisons rule.
50) Uncle Pirate
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Wilson is one of the most bullied fourth-graders at the chaotic Very Elementary School until his long-lost uncle, Desperate Evil Wicked Bob--a pirate--and his talking penguin arrive and begin making everything ship-shape, one classroom at a time.
52) Awful End
Author
Series
Eddie Dickens trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Eddie Dickens's sickly parents become "a bit crinkly round the edges," he is taken in by his great-uncle and great-aunt, Mad Uncle Jack and Mad Aunt Maude, and embarks on adventures that involve strolling actors, St. Horrid's Home for Grateful Orphans, and a carnival float shaped like a giant cow.
Author
Series
Poisons of Caux volume 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
With an army of scarecrows, a legion of birds, and her friends and uncle by her side, it is up to Ivy Manx to wage war against the evil Vidal Verjouce and the Tasters Guild, defeat her own father, and restore order to the plant world.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Koo, a young panda, has a dream about saving the world, he worries that the job is too big for him to manage. But his Uncle Stillwater shows him that sometimes saving the world starts with doing little things, like being kind and considerate"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 59
Language
English
Description
520 "Rancid rat hairs! I'd been spending so much money lately, I had none left in the bank! Even worse, when my grandfather found out, he sent me off to Moldy Manor. There, miserly Uncle Stingysnout would give me a crash course in saving. Yikes! Could I learn to be less wasteful without turning totsally stingy?" -
57) Gumption!
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Peter goes on an African adventure with his beloved Uncle Nigel, who hopes to spot a rare gorilla, the oblivious Nigel urges Peter on by telling him to have gumption, while Peter keeps his eyes open and uses his ingenuity.
Author
Series
Max and the Midknights volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Max and a group of friends dubbed the Midknights go on a quest to rescue the Kingdom of Byjovia from the mean King Gastley!"--
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
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.
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