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Guncle volume 1
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Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. But in terms of caretaking and relating to two children, no matter how adorable, Patrick is, honestly, overwhelmed. So when tragedy strikes and Maisie and Grant lose their mother and Patrick's brother...
2) C'mon c'mon
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
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A radio journalist, whose sister asks him to look after her son, takes his nephew along on his travels around the country.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
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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.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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When his long-lost uncle dies, leaving him his supervillain business, Charlie, as rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital come after him, finds going bad looking pretty good with unionized dolphins, hyperintelligent talking spy cats and a terrifying henchperson at his side.
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Publisher
Feiwel and Friends Book, an imprint of MacMillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
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"The art of Auntieology and Uncleology is a sacred craft, but ten-year-old Leo has an Uncle Mo-a clueless stationery supply salesman with good intentions-who just doesn't get it. Yet."--
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Series
Pendragon series volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
385 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
When Bobby Pendragon finds himself in the war-stricken territory of Cloral, he and his uncle take it upon themselves to rid the area of marauders and locate the legendary lost land of Faar, which may hold the key to Cloral's survival.
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"In the spirit of The Bartender's Tale, a lively and poignant coming-of-age story about a boy and his great-uncle on a cross-country odyssey. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she...
11) Gifted
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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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.
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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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Uncle Charlie is a seemingly charming man visiting his relatives in their small and peaceful hometown. But when his namesake niece, "Young Charlie" suspects that he may in fact be the psychopathic Merry Widow killer, Uncle Charlie must plot the death of his favorite relation in order to remain one step ahead of the law in this murderous game of cat-and-mouse.
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Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
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Chloe? is jealous and sad when her favorite uncle announces that he will be getting married, but as she gets to know Jamie better and becomes involved in planning the wedding, she discovers that she will always be special to Uncle Bobby--and to Uncle Jamie, too.
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Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
258 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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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.
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