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Author
Series
Mickey Bolitar novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Mutant Bunny Island volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: Obert Skye, author of the bestselling Leven Thumps series, delivers a delightful mixture of offbeat mystery and laugh-out-loud humor in this thoroughly inventive adventure complete with comic-style illustrations, the first in a trilogy. Ten-year-old Perry Owens has learned everything he needs to know from comic books. So when Perry receives a troubling message from his favorite uncle, Zeke, he knows exactly what?s wrong. Obviously,...
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
1997, c1996
Edition
1st Harper Trophy ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Dennis, whose uncle and father died within a year of one another, is visited by the ghost of his uncle, and together they settle some unfinished business.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Siblings Susan and Charles receive a mysterious book before leaving to visit their Uncle Farley at his time-traveling house, where they become separated in the Sea of Time and struggle to find their way home.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Nicholas and his ten-year-old twin sisters, Hetty and Haley, spend the summer with their great-uncle Nick at Forsaken Lake, where he and their new friend Charlie investigate the truth about an accident involving their families many years before.
9) Choke
Author
Series
Pillage trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Using his renowned lack of common sense, fifteen-year-old Beck Phillips gets himself and his friends Kate and Wyatt embroiled in more dragon adventures, as they discover and hatch the last remaining dragon stone.
10) Pillage
Author
Series
Pillage trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Upon his mother's death, fifteen-year-old Beck Phillips is sent to live with an eccentric uncle he had never met in a remote manor house, where he learns that his family suffers from a curse that allows him to make plants grow on command and dragon eggs hatch.
11) Mansfield Park
Author
Language
English
Description
Fanny Price is born to a poor family, but is sent to her mother's rich relations to be brought up with her cousins. There she is treated as an inferior by all except her cousin Edmund, whose kindness towards her earns him her steadfast love. Fanny is quiet and obedient and does not come into her own until her elder cousins leave the estate following a scandalous play put on in their father's absence. Fanny's loyalty and love is tested by the beautiful
...Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1852, when seventeen-year-old Katharine is sent to her family's estate to prove that her uncle is insane, she finds he is an inventor whose work creating ingenious clockwork figures supports hundreds of families, but strange occurences soon have her doubting her own sanity.
Author
Series
Klaatu diskos volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tucker Feye and Lia are stranded at the top of a crumbling pyramid in the distant future while Tucker's uncle Kosh faces armed resistance to help a terrorized woman.
16) Found
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mickey Bolitar and his friends continue to investigate the Abeona Shelter, while Mickey searches for answers about his father's tragic death"--
17) The cardturner
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price.
Author
Series
Samantha Spinner series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Samantha's uncle mysteriously disappears, leaving behind extravagant gifts for her siblings and an old, rusty, red umbrella for Samantha that may contain clues to his whereabouts.
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