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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...
4) 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.
Author
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.
8) The gardener
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.
9) Uncle Buck
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Uncle Buck, an idle good-natured bachelor, is left in charge of his nephew and nieces during a family crisis. While his carefree ways easily charm the younger relatives, he meets more than a little hostility from Tia, his rebellious teenage niece, and Chanice, his impatient girlfriend.
Author
Series
Bad Kitty (Chapter books) volume 3
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
157 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
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) Troll Fell
Author
Series
Troll trilogy volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Forced to live with his evil identical-twin uncles after his father's death, twelve-year-old Peer tries to find a way to stop their plan to sell the neighbor's children to the trolls.
13) Starter villain
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Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
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.
14) Secondhand lions
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
To the rest of the world, Garth and Hub are mysterious old men hiding millions. But to Walter, they are family--and now they're about to lead him on an adventure he'll never forget.
15) Rabbit food
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
[26] p. : col. ill. ; 25 x 28 cm.
Description
Uncle Bunny, who has been summoned to make sure that John joins his fellow rabbits in eating lots of vegetables, reveals a surprising dislike for carrots.
16) How to go hiking
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
An uncle and his nephew, armed with new hiking boots, snacks, water, and a map, take a hike through the woods.
Author
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
Description
"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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"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...
20) Gifted
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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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.
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