The Secret Funeral Of Slim Jim The Snake
Ten-year-old Nick lives above the funeral home run by his strict uncle, but he dreams of becoming a truck driver like his dead father.
FIC
year: 1993
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
A Name On The Quilt
A family reminisces while gathered together to make a panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt in memory of a beloved uncle.
128.5
year: 1999
copies: 2
call number/section: 128.5
lexile:
Chasing Redbird
Thirteen-year-old Zinnia Taylor uncovers family secrets and self truths while clearing a mysterious settler trail that begins on her family's farm in Kentucky.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 76
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: aunts, uncles [X], death, grief, family life, large type books, kentucky, death, guilt, family, families
America's White Table
Three children set a special white table in memory of service members fallen or missing in action, and especially in honor of their Uncle Jim, a POW in Vietnam.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 59
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Sweet Music In Harlem
C.J., who aspires to be as great a jazz musician as his uncle, searches for Uncle Click's hat in preparation for an important photograph and inadvertently gathers some of the greatest musicians of 1950s Harlem to join in on the picture.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: musicians, jazz, uncles [X], lost and found possessions, photographs, harlem (new york, n.y.)
Everything On A Waffle
Eleven-year-old Primrose, who lives 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.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 153
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 950
subjects: babysitting, self-reliance, uncles [X], parent and child, foster home care, interpersonal relations, british columbia, parent-child relationship, large type books, large print books
Alien Feast
In 2017, human-eating aliens have kidnapped two scientists who might cure the disease that is destroying them, and twelve-year-old William Aitkin, his elderly, ailing Uncle Maynard, and the scientists' daughter, Sophie, set out to rescue them.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 910
Younguncle Comes To Town
In a small town in northern India, three siblings await their father's youngest brother, Younguncle, who is said to be somewhat eccentric.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 920
subjects: short stories, indic (english), children's stories, indic (english), india, uncles [X], eccentrics and eccentricities
Brenda Berman, Wedding Expert
When Brenda's favorite uncle decides to marry, Brenda sees visions of a gold lam? flower-girl's outfit, until Uncle Harry and his bride-to-be show up with her niece.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
Emily's Fortune
While traveling to her aunt's home in Redbud by train and stagecoach, quiet young Emily and her turtle, Rufus, team up with Jackson, fellow orphan and troublemaker extraordinaire, to outsmart mean Uncle Victor, who is after Emily's inheritance.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 29
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840
subjects: orphans, voyages and travels, inheritance and succession, uncles [X], west (u.s.), western stories
The Star Maker
With the help of his popular Uncle Chester, a young Chinese American boy tries hard to fulfill a promise to have firecrackers for everyone on the Chinese New Year in 1954.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 530
subjects: uncles [X], families, chinese new year, chinese americans, chinatown (san francisco, calif.), san francisco (calif.), family life, family
Aunts And Uncles
This book introduces aunts and uncles as parents' sisters and brothers.
306.87
year: 2011
copies: 3
call number/section: 306.87
lexile: 300
A Corner Of The Universe
Hattie's world is turned upside down with the startling arrival of an uncle no one has ever spoken about.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 125
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: family life, uncles [X], people with mental disabilities, friendship, extreme read-dig deep, mentally handicapped, grandparents
Jade Green
While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression causes mysterious happenings.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 39
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1040
subjects: haunted houses, ghosts, orphans, uncles [X], ghost stories, mystery fiction, large print books, horror fiction
The Big Wander
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.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 34
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: uncles [X], navajo indians, indians of north america, mustang, southwest, new, southwestern states