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3) The Gardener
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Series
Caldecott honor book volume 1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
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"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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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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
Children of the lamp volume 1
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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When twelve-year-old twins Philippa and John discover that they are descended from a long line of djinn, their mother sends them away to their Uncle Nimrod, who takes them to Cairo where he starts to teach them about their extraordinary powers.
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"Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He's not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn't know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time. How strange - though it's a blessing, his uncle promises. Stranger yet is what's inside the crate. He's a seven-foot-tall...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 31
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Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose thoughtful companionship is epitomized by Almondine, Edgar's lifelong friend and ally. But with the unexpected return of Claude, Edgar's paternal uncle, turmoil consumes the Sawtelles' once peaceful home. When Edgar's father dies suddenly,...
16) 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.
17) Skunk scout
Author
Series
Teddy books (Laurence Yep) volume 3
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Teddy is not thrilled with the present his uncle gives him for his tenth birthday--a camping trip for him and his younger brother--but on his first outing away from San Francisco's Chinatown, Teddy learns some interesting facts about nature, about his uncle, and about himself.
19) The cardturner
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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.
20) Beetle boy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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Darkus Cuttle has taken care of his father ever since his mother died, but one day his father vanished from a locked vault at the Natural History Museum, and now he lives with his eccentric uncle--but one day he finds a large and unusually intelligent and self-aware beetle, and soon he and his two friends are caught up in a struggle to protect an intelligent super species of beetles.
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