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Living with Jackie Chan

After fathering a baby, a teenager moves in with his karate-loving uncle and tries to come to terms with his guilt.

The back door of midnight

2010
Anna struggles to maintain a sense of normalcy while staying with her eccentric aunt for the summer, but when her uncle's charred body is discovered and her aunt's grief exaggerates her psychic abilities, Anna wonders who she can trust and if her family's supernatural abilities might help her find her uncle's killer.

Count Karlstein

1998
In the mountains of Switzerland, the wicked Count Karlstein plots to abandon his two nieces in a hunting lodge as prey for the Demon Huntsman and his ghostly hounds.

After the river the sun

2013
After his parents' death, his own near-drowning, and months in foster care, twelve-year-old Eckhart Lyon moves to his Uncle Al's orchard on trial but yearns for a real home, and with new friend Eva's help he sets out on a quest to atone and prove himself worthy like his hero, Sir Gawain.

Jungle of bones

2014
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.

The mailbox

2008
When twelve-year-old Gabe tries to hide his uncle's death from the local authorities, he is not prepared for what happens when this secret is discovered.

Everything on a waffle

2008
Eleven-year-old Primrose, who lives in a small fishing village in British Columbia, recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.

Spotlight striker

2011
Star soccer player Carlos Ramirez becomes nervous before playing against the state's best team when he hears that his uncle, a professional soccer player, will be watching in the stands. Carlos must find a way to deal with the pressure or his whole team will suffer.

Rabbit food

2001
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.

Little Wolf's book of badness

1999
Little Wolf has been behaving too courteously, so his parents send him to his uncle's Big Bad Wolf school to learn to be a proper wolf.

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