uncles

Amy receives a gift for the Chinese New Year from her aunt and uncle who live far away in China.

Uncle Willy will not stop tickling, even when his nephew says "stop," but with reassurance from his mother the boy tries again to tell Uncle Willy he tickles too much. Includes a note to parents on how to talk about "good and bad touching" and a child's right to say no.

Left in the care of their strict grandmother, the four Linnet children find a much happier home with their Uncle Ambrose, his one-legged gardener, and the people of a small English village, where they help explain an old mystery and restore the joy of new friends.

Following the unexpected death of his uncle, a boy travels to the funeral with his extended family and begins to think about what the event will mean for all of them.

Explains, in brief text and illustrations, the meaning of the terms "aunt" and "uncle" and describes their roles in a family and their relationship with their nieces and nephews.

Simple text and photographs depict uncles and what they can do with their nieces and nephews.

When the klutzy Amy Audrey Perkins is as good as gold at Aunt Linda's wedding her relatives are so surprised that they have an accident.

After thirteen-year-old Tucker Feye's parents disappear, he suspects that the strange disks of shimmering air that he keeps seeing are somehow involved, and, when he steps inside one, he is whisked away on a time-twisting journey trailed by a shadowy sect of priests and haunted by ghostlike figures.

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.

In the spring of 1903 at her country estate, Petronella Arbuthnot faces an enormous dilemma during her sixteenth-birthday festivities as important guests disappear, kidnapping notes appear, and Uncle Augustus, who has developed a bug-eating compulsion, is surreptitiously devouring the insect evidence.