uncles

Strike-out king, Herbie Jones, feels that the summer is ruined when his uncle arrives to coach a baseball team and asks Herbie to join up.

Although eight-year-old Roz usually feels annoyed by the pestering attentions of her uncle Ozzie, who is two years younger than she is, she finds that there are times when she is glad to have him around.

At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and the uncle he considers a traitor because he refused to take part in the war.

Christina's summer in a spooky, isolated Victorian house with her grumpy uncle turns into a ghostly adventure.

An elderly uncle given to occasional bouts of confusion causes the Andersons to wonder if they are able to care for him or if he should be sent to a nursing home.