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.

As he prepares to celebrate the Day of the Dead, a young boy remembers all the things he liked about his favorite uncle.

"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...

"Growing up outside a US military base in South Korea in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Insu -- the son of a Korean mother and a German father enlisted in the US Army -- spends his days with his "half and half" friends skipping school, selling scavenged Western goods on the black market, watching Hollywood movies, and testing the boundaries between childhood and adulthood. When he hears a legend that water collected in a human skull will cure any...

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....

Using his renowned lack of common sense, fifteen-year-old Beck Phillips gets himself and his friends Kate and Wyatt embroiled in more dragon adventures, as they discover and hatch the last remaining dragon stone.

To the rest of the world, Garth and Hub are mysterious old men hiding millions. But to Walter, they are family - and now they're about to lead him on an adventure he'll never forget.

"Mickey Bolitar and his friends continue to investigate the Abeona Shelter, while Mickey searches for answers about his father's tragic death"-- Mickey's sophomore year of high school brings on a whole new set of troubles. Spoon is in the hospital, Rachel won't tell him where he stands, his basketball teammates hate him... and then there's Ema's surprise announcement: she has an online boyfriend, and he's vanished. All the while, Mickey and his friends...

A radio journalist embarks on a cross-country trip with his young nephew.