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1) C'mon c'mon
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
A radio journalist, whose sister asks him to look after her son, takes his nephew along on his travels around the country.
4) Gifted
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Formats
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.
8) Uncle Pirate
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
100 p. : ill., music ; 20 cm.
Description
Wilson is one of the most bullied fourth-graders at the chaotic Very Elementary School until his long-lost uncle, Desperate Evil Wicked Bob--a pirate--and his talking penguin arrive and begin making everything ship-shape, one classroom at a time.
9) 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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
258 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
When a fellow passenger dies on the historic Safari Star as it rides through South Africa, amateur sleuth Hal Beck is determined to figure out if foul play is involved and who is responsible before they reach their final destination.
13) Happily for now
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
288 pages cm
Description
"Spending the summer with relatives, a take-charge girl tackles the challenges of her aunt's failing bakery, her great-uncle's unique ways of communicating, and her great-aunt's perpetual gloom, before discovering that she, herself, may need help"--
14) Gumption!
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
When Peter goes on an African adventure with his beloved Uncle Nigel, who hopes to spot a rare gorilla, the oblivious Nigel urges Peter on by telling him to have gumption, while Peter keeps his eyes open and uses his ingenuity.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
384 pages
Description
"Bram moves to the small town of Louth in order to help her uncle start his new inn, but when she discovers a legacy of silenced women tied to her new home, she sets out to investigate the truth behind the town's 'Dead Girl' myths"--
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.
19) The diviners
Author
Series
Diviners volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
578 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.
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