uncles

When David goes out on his sailboat to scatter his recently deceased uncle's ashes to the wind, he is caught in a fierce storm and must survive many days on his own as he works out his feelings about life and his uncle.

While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression causes mysterious happenings.

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.

Cody LeBeau, the new kid, becomes the new target for the bullies even though he is Abenaki like most of the school, but things begin to change when his uncle comes to town for a martial arts competition and he and Cody begin training together.

Ian, spending the summer on Key West with his Uncle Gord, a dive shop owner, is drawn into a dangerous adventure when he sets out to learn why someone is trying to harm his uncle.

Charlie Sykes wakes up as an orphan in a St. John's hospital, inheriting nothing but a small key from his father. When Uncle Nick shows up, paroled from prison, he claims the key is his by right, and chases Charlie through the hospital. Charlie escapes with the key, and leads his uncle on a pursuit across Signal Hill and to the coast, where they both find out a secret about their family history that changes everything.

When Katharine Tulman foils an attempt to kidnap her Uncle Tully, she finds herself caught up in international intrigue. Aware that there are people who want to turn her uncle's mechanical fish into an explosive device, and unsure of who to trust, she decides to fake her uncle's death and flee to Paris in search of Lane Moreau, her uncle's assistant.

In 1851, thirteen-year-old Cecilia has her eyes opened to the horrors of slavery when she accompanies her ornithologist uncle on an expedition in search of the rare "Scarlet Ibis," and watches as he shows slaves the way to the Underground Railroad.

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 occurrences soon have her doubting her own sanity.

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.