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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 new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be.
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Series
Geronimo Stilton volume 59
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"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 tgive me a crash course in savings. Yikes! Could I learn to be less wasteful without turning totally stingy" -- back cover.
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English
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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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Series
Bad Kitty volume 03
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Language
English
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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.
12) Pig Pig returns
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Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Pig Pig is concerned about travelling across the country with his aunt and uncle, but is even more worried when he returns.
14) The mailbox
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Gabe tries to hide his uncle's death from the local authorities, he is not prepared for what happens when this secret is discovered.
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English
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After thirteen-year-old Tucker Feye's parents disappear, he suspects that the strange disks of shimmering air that he keeps seeing are somehow involved, and when he steps inside of one he is whisked on a time-twisting journey trailed by a shadowy sect of priests and haunted by ghostlike figures.
17) Catmagic
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Language
English
Description
Although she is initially unhappy about having to spend the summer with her uncle while her mother is away at work, Lottie Grace gets the surprise of her life when the animals at his pet store start talking to her.
19) But no candy
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Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
While her Uncle Ted is off fighting in World War II, Lee watches the candy gradually disappear from the shelves of her family's store and realizes that her entire world has changed.
20) Beetle boy
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English
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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.