uncles

After her parents die, Lucy Simmons tries to protect her family home from her greedy uncle Victor with the help of mysterious magic that seems to show up at just the right time. Together with a mysterious woman named Marni, Lucy races to thwart Victor's plans and discovers the most powerful type of magic of all.

Carter Lewis's Uncle Dan has invented a suit that creates a virtual reality world so that the person experiences and interacts with a book as if he were actually there--but when Carter and his cousin Isabelle put on the suits they discover that a hacker is playing games with them.

When his uncle Bicycle Bear takes a vacation, Trike Bear attempts to take over his delivery job and finds it more difficult than he had thought.

In 1852, when seventeen-year-old Katharine is sent to her family's estate to prove that her uncle is insane, she finds he is an inventor whose work creating ingenious clockwork figures supports hundreds of families, but strange occurrences soon have her doubting her own sanity.

In the early nineteenth century, when his sea-captain uncle invites him to assist the ship's surgeon on his next voyage, orphaned, fourteen-and-a-half-year-old Phillip, eager to be with family, accepts only to find out that his uncle is a slave trader.

Hattie meets the childlike uncle she never knew and befriends a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town.

Uncle David's proportions grow larger each time his nephew describes him to friends.

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.