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3) Horse camp
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, twelve-year-old twins Percy and Penny are excited to spend a summer riding horses on their Uncle Stretch's Minnesota spread, until they discover it is a pig farm.
Author
Series
Tom Trelawney volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Tom, who comes from a long line of criminals, travels with his roguish uncle to India to find a family treasure--an antique jewel-encrusted tiger stolen from the sultan's throne hundreds of years ago.
Author
Series
Sound bender volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Leo's cruel and greedy Uncle Crane is forcing him to use his ability to hear sounds from the past to steal the other half of the mysterious Siamese twin mask that was once owned by Leo's father--or be separated from his younger brother forever.
Author
Series
Adventures of the northwoods volume 5
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1907 in Wisconsin, Kate and her friends discover a timber swindler while visiting their Indian friend Running Deer and suspect that Kate's uncle, newly arrived from Sweden, may be involved.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Lured to their sick Uncle Silas's home under the pretense of becoming heirs to his vast fortune, cousins Adele, Isabella, and Milo soon learn that the old man has a diabolical plan to prevent his own death.
9) Sound bender
Author
Series
Sound bender volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After their parents are declared dead, Leo and his brother Hollis are taken in by a wealthy but distant step-uncle, and when, on his thirteenth birthday, Leo acquires the ability to hear sounds from the past when touching certain objects, he tries to use the skill to rescue a dolphin, whatever the cost.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1905, Suzanna is in training to be a well-mannered hostess at a Loch Harbor, New Brunswick, hotel, but her dream of being a detective gets a boost when a seven-year-old guest goes missing and Suzanna's uncle, a famous detective, comes to solve the case.
Author
Series
Tom Trelawney volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2012
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.
12) Mountain dog
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When his mother is sent to jail in Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Tony goes to live with his forest ranger great-uncle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Tony experiences unconditional love for the first time through his friendship with a rescue dog.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1934, during the Depression, Kit's cantankerous uncle comes to live in the Cincinnati boardinghouse run by her parents, enlisting her aid in transcribing his complaining letters to the editor of the local newspaper and inspiring her to write a different kind of letter of her own.
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