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21) Gifted
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Frank Adler is a single man raising a child prodigy, his spirited young niece Mary, in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn, whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary.
22) The Dead Student
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
A grad student and his ex-girlfriend team up to solve a murder in this psychological thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author of Just Cause.
Timothy “Moth” Warner, a Miami PhD student, wakes up on his ninety-ninth day of sobriety with an intense craving for alcohol. He asks his uncle Ed, a former alcoholic and now successful psychiatrist, to meet him at an AA meeting later that day....
Timothy “Moth” Warner, a Miami PhD student, wakes up on his ninety-ninth day of sobriety with an intense craving for alcohol. He asks his uncle Ed, a former alcoholic and now successful psychiatrist, to meet him at an AA meeting later that day....
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Months before her fifteenth birthday, Nyssa learns that she is a special member of a legendary clan, the Keepers of Knowledge, as she and her uncle try to escape from Alaric, the White Wolf, who wants to use lines tattooed on her to destroy the rest of her people.
Author
Series
Eddie Dickens trilogy volume 1
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2002, c2000
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Eddie Dickens's ill parents become "a bit crinkly round the edges," he is taken 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
Mickey Bolitar novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After tragic events tear Mickey Bolitar away from his parents, he is forced to live with his estranged Uncle Myron and switch high schools, where he finds both friends and enemies, but when his new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be.
Author
Series
Klaatu diskos volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tucker Feye and Lia are stranded at the top of a crumbling pyramid in the distant future while Tucker's uncle Kosh faces armed resistance to help a terrorized woman.
30) Pillage
Author
Series
Pillage trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Upon his mother's death, fifteen-year-old Beck Phillips is sent to live with an eccentric uncle he had never met in a remote manor house, where he learns that his family suffers from a curse that allows him to make plants grow on command and dragon eggs hatch.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2007.
Edition
Exclusive movie ed.
Language
English
Description
When billionaire Howard "Red" Stevens dies, he leaves the bulk of his fortune to his lazy, ill-mannered grandson, Jason, but in order to receive his wealth, Jason must complete twelve designated tasks intended to make him a better person.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Nicholas and his ten-year-old twin sisters, Hetty and Haley, spend the summer with their great-uncle Nick at Forsaken Lake, where he and their new friend Charlie investigate the truth about an accident involving their families many years before.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Siblings Susan and Charles receive a mysterious book before leaving to visit their Uncle Farley at his time-traveling house, where they become separated in the Sea of Time and struggle to find their way home.
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marie Claire, aka the Rat, is a dancing, soccer-playing, fearless ten-year-old, often protected by her brother Bob. When their father dies, the two leave home in Winnipeg, Canada, and head for New York determined to find their uncle in America and discover a new life for themselves. On their adventures across the flatlands of Winnipeg and through the exciting streets of New York, Bob and the Rat make friends with a hilarious con man and a famous rap...
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
1997, c1996
Edition
1st Harper Trophy ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Dennis, whose uncle and father died within a year of one another, is visited by the ghost of his uncle, and together they settle some unfinished business.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Primrose living in a small fishing village in British Columbia recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.
40) Luv
Publisher
Indomina
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Woody dreams of a better life, as well as his absent mother. He looks to his uncle, Vincent, as the father he never had. A street hustler and former drug dealer, Vincent's fresh off an eight-year stint in prison and wants a new direction. When Vincent passes his nephew's school one day, he offers to show the boy how a man handles his business. Woody jumps at the chance, but soon his uncle's past life comes back to the forefront.
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