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1) Catmagic
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Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Lottie Grace doesn't want to spend the summer with her uncle while her mom works, but at least he owns a pet shop, where Lottie can play with the kittens and make friends with an adorable daschund. So when one day, her puppy pal starts to speak, Lottie realizes her summer is going to be even better than she could have imagined! Dr. Doolittle meets Roald Dahl! Cat Magic is the first in an enchanting new series about chatty kittens, dogs that bark in...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
Hattie Owen prefers to be steeped in the familiarity of her small-town life rather than think about the vast world beyond her own. During the summer that Hattie turns 12, her world is turned upside down with the startling arrival of an uncle no one has ever spoken about.
4) Shelter
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Series
Mickey Bolitar novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
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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 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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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
Fourteen-year-old Calogero Scalise and his Sicilian uncles and cousin live in small-town Louisiana in 1898, when Jim Crow laws rule and anti-immigration sentiment is strong, so despite his attempts to be polite and to follow American customs, disaster dogs his family at every turn.
7) The diviners
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Series
Diviners volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 23
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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Oona Crate mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
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Description
In 1877, in an enchantment shop on the last of the Faerie roads linking New York City to the Land of the Fey, just after twelve-year-old Oona opts to relinquish her apprenticeship to her uncle, the Wizard, and become a detective, her uncle is stabbed, testing her skills.
10) Cryptid hunters
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Twins, Grace and Marty, along with a mysterious uncle, are dropped into the middle of the Congolese jungle in search of their missing photojournalist parents.
11) The Gardener
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Series
Caldecott honor book volume 1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
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.
12) Seconds Away
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"When tragedy strikes close to home, Mickey Bolitar and his new friends find themselves at the center of a murder mystery"--
13) Beetle boy
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
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.
14) How Do You Live?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 10
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The first English translation of the classic Japanese novel that has sold over 2 million copies-a childhood favorite of anime master Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle), with an introduction by Neil Gaiman.
First published in 1937, Genzaburō Yoshino's How Do You Live? has long been acknowledged in Japan as a crossover classic for young readers. Academy Award–winning animator Hayao Miyazaki has called...
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Max and the Midknights volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Max and a group of friends dubbed the Midknights go on a quest to rescue the Kingdom of Byjovia from the mean King Gastley!"--
16) The Big Wander
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
As he searches for his uncle through the rugged Southwest canyon country, fourteen-year-old Clay becomes involved with a group of Navajo Indians who are trying to save some of the last wild mustangs. Fourteen-year-old Clay Lancaster has been dreaming for years of the adventure he calls The Big Wander -- a summer in the Southwest with his older brother, Mike, searching for their uncle Clay. When Mike decides to return home to Seattle and the girlfriend...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When sullen teenager Dylan Barstow is caught joyriding in a stolen car he is sent to his ex-Marine uncle for the summer, but soon they are on the way to Papua New Guinea in search of a World War II fighter plane and Dylan discovers that defiance is not a survival skill when you are lost in a jungle.