uncles

A young rhinoceros learns self-confidence, love, and the value of memory from his great-uncle.

In 1889 in the islands off the coast of Washington State, thirteen-year-old Clementine pulls a nearly drowned Chinese man out of the sea and begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may have been involved in his attempted murder as well as other treacherous deeds.

In the early nineteenth century, a Swedish orphan worries that she will again lose someone she loves when her aunt sails to Stockholm during the stormiest season.

Carley recalls the extraordinary summer when, as a troubled fourteen-year-old, he first came to northern Minnesota to stay with his blacksmith Uncle David and gained not only new skills but also a new sense of himself.

The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town.

Maia and her brother Sethnet are orphaned and sent to live with their cruel aunt and uncle in ancient Thebes; and when Maia pleads with Sethnet, who is studying to be a scribe, to teach her to write, it becomes the one thing that will save her life.

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.

Bobo's uncle has warned him that humans are dangerous, but when Uncle Darwin gets sick and needs medicine, the young orangutan braves an encounter with a little boy.

While visiting Uncle Phil in Florida, Carrie and Ben find out all about the gentle aquatic giant known as the manatee.

When hard times fall on his family, Jo Lee is sent from China to San Francisco, where he helps his uncle fish and dreams of being reunited with his mother and sister.