Thirteen-year-old Juan's summer is off to a terrible start. Frist, his parents separate. Then, almost as bad, Juan is sent away to his strange Uncle Tito's house for the entire break! Who wants to live with an oddball recluse who has zigzag eyebrows, drinks fifteen cups of smoky tea a day, and lives inside a huge, mysterious library? As Juan adjusts to hs new life among teetering, dusty shelves, he notices something odd: the books move on their own!...

"Every Sunday Aunt Essy, Aunt Chanah and Uncle Sam drive up in the old Lincoln for their afternoon visit and plop themselves down in the living room. 'Oy,' says Aunt Essy. 'Feh,' says Aunt Chanah. 'So?' says Uncle Sam. That's all they ever say, every Sunday! But one afternoon the three children in the family decide they've had enough..." -- Jacket flap.

Pig Pig is concerned about travelling across the country with his aunt and uncle, but is even more worried when he returns.

Uncle Pig is babysitting his niece and nephews for the first time and he has no idea how to keep them from turning his home into a total wreck -- and when he takes them outside the chaos continues.

Ten-year-old Max Monroe teams up with his bumbling great-uncle's ghost, Larry, to help solve the mystery of the birthday girl who really disappeared during a magic act.

"The art of Auntieology and Uncleology is a sacred craft, but ten-year-old Leo has an Uncle Mo -- a clueless stationery supply salesman with good intentions --who just doesn't get it. Yet."--Publisher's website.

Orphaned Anthea Cross hopes to finally find a home with her long-lost uncle, but she soon learns not only that he secretly breeds forbidden horses, but that she can communicate with them.

His mother left three years ago, so when twelve-year-old Flip's thieving father dies he goes to live with his stern and hostile uncle on the remote Dutch island of Mossum; there he works on the farm, dreams of his mother coming to get him, deals with the local bullies, and his only "friend' is a strange, mute girl whom he thinks of as the ghost girl -- until he rescues a horse from the stormy sea and discovers a new purpose in caring for his charge....

"Norma and her parents are going to her great-uncle Frank's funeral, and Norma is more excited than sad. She is looking forward to playing with her favorite cousin, Ray, but when she arrives at the church, she is confronted with rituals and ideas that have never occurred to her before. While not all questions can be answered, when the day is over Norma is certain of one thing: Uncle Frank would have enjoyed his funeral. This sensitive and life-affirming...

"After a surprise attack on a hunting party leaves Chula, a Chickasaw boy living in the Homeland during the turbulent eighteenth century, without his beloved father, Chula finds himself thrust into the challenging world of a Chickasaw warrior. Haunted by his father's restless spirit, Chula looks to his Uncle Lheotubby to help him become a warrior. Despite his youth, he is determined to join the men who seek retaliation, as he vows to avenge his father....