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1) Shelter
Author
Series
Mickey Bolitar novels volume 1
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 new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be.
4) Find him
Author
Formats
Description
A pregnant teenager and her black sheep uncle search for her missing boyfriend and father of her child through the criminal underworld of the Arkansas/Tennessee border.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Appears on list
Description
Despite serious obstacles and setbacks Sarah Jean's Uncle Jed, the only black barber in the county, pursues his dream of saving enough money to open his own barbershop.
9) Seconds away
Author
Series
Mickey Bolitar novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Formats
Description
Having ended the Edgar-Award nominated Shelter with a jaw dropping cliffhanger, Coben picks up Mickey's story right where it left off in thie suspenseful new adventure. Mickey and his loyal new friends, sharp-witted Emma and adkorkably charming Spook, once again find themselves in over their heads on the hunt for missing pieces to a puzzle they have yet to understand. As the mystery surrounding Mickey's dad's death unfolds, he soon learns that they...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
[48] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
The letters that ten-year-old Christoph and his uncle exchange show how Christoph's feelings for Mr. Beethoven, the eccentric boarder that shares his house, change from anger and embarrassment to compassion and admiration.
12) Mansfield Park
Author
Description
Mansfield Park is a study of three families--the Bertrams, the Crawfords, and the Prices--with the isolated figure of the heroine, Fanny Price, at its center. Fanny's quiet passivity, her steadfast loyalty and love for the son of the family who regard her as the poor relation, and who have taken her under their roof, are not appreciated until they are tried against the brilliant and witty Mary and Henry Crawford, the unfortunate consequences of whose...
13) Dormia
Author
Series
Dormia series volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
506 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
After learning of his ancestral ties to Dormia, a hidden kingdom in the Ural Mountains whose inhabitants possess the ancient power of "wakeful sleeping," twelve-year-old Alfonso sets out on a mission to save the kingdom from destruction, discovering secrets that lurk in his own sleep.
15) A gift
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
Amy receives a gift for the Chinese New Year from her aunt and uncles who live far away in China.
Author
Series
Klaatu diskos volume 1
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Amelia Bedelia series volume 28
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Amelia Bedelia, the literal-minded housekeeper, takes a vacation at her Uncle Buck's dude ranch.
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Tom goes with his Uncle Harvey to Peru, where they narrowly escape imprisonment and death as they hunt for buried treasure after tracking down a journal written by John Drake, a young relative of Sir Francis Drake, on a voyage to Lima in 1577. Includes biographical information on John and Francis Drake.
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
90 pages ; 19 cm
Description
Helen, an introvert who designs invitations to parties and galas to which she's not welcome, at her uncle Peter's insistence, prints an extra invitation to attend a soiree with Peter as her plus one, and what starts out as an innocent lark becomes much more.
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