In the mid-1950s, Lewis Barnavelt is convinced that a series of accidents that has been happening to him and his Uncle Jonathan are being directly caused by a curse from a mysterious, hooded figure that might be part of his uncle's past.
While spending a month on an island off the coast of Washington helping in her Uncle Sanjay's veterinary clinic, eleven-year-old Poppy Ray soon questions her decision to follow in her uncle's footsteps.
When an electric fish shrinks Andrew, Judy, and Thudd to the size of bacteria, they end up being injected by a mosquito into Uncle Al's bloodstream where they must battle germs, parasites, and white blood cells.
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.
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.
Sam moves to Nevada with his uncle to run a caf? in the middle of nowhere, and although Uncle Clem insists that nothing ever happens there, his clientele consists of a number of strange characters, including Dorothy and Toto, Elvis, and Bigfoot.
Twins, Grace and Marty, along with a mysterious uncle, are dropped into the middle of the Congolese jungle in search of their missing photojournalist parents.
"Her world upended by the death of a beloved artist uncle who was the only person that understood her, fourteen-year-old June is mailed a teapot by her uncle's grieving friend, with whom she forges a poignant relationship"--Provided by publisher.
After spending time with his uncle Mike, Garth begins to keep secrets from everyone around him, but he wonders if his uncle is actually someone that Garth can really trust.
