When his great uncle dies, the young, rather arrogant, Jason must repeatedly return to the attorney's office for a series of videotaped life lessons in order to earn his million dollar inheritance.

Twelve-year-old Nicholas and his ten-year-old twin sisters, Hetty and Haley, spend the summer with their Great-Uncle Nick at Forsaken Lake, where he and their new friend Charlie investigate the truth about an accident involving their families many years before.

When eleven-year-old Eddie Dickens's sickly parents become "a bit crinkly round the edges," he is taken in by his great-uncle and great-aunt, Mad Uncle Jack and Mad Aunt Maude, and embarks on adventures that involve strolling actors, St. Horrid's Home for Grateful Orphans, and a carnival float shaped like a giant cow.

"A fiction picture book about residential schools. Author Jodie Callaghan worked as a journalist at the time of the Canadian government's apology for the residential school system. She took inspiration for this book from her conversations with survivors--including her own grandmother's experience at Indian day school, and memories shared with her by a man she interviewed by the train tracks that transported children to residential school in Shubenacadie,...

When he comes for a brief visit, Warren proves to be just as difficult to get along with as his great-uncle Worst.

"A middle-grade summer adventure about two boys who build an awesome fort and tangle with two older bullies."--

When Great-uncle Max, the tailor, becomes sick and can no longer sew, nephew Aaron becomes his "hands" and together they create something special.

When his mother is sent to jail in Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Tony goes to live with his forest ranger great-uncle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Tony experiences unconditional love for the first time through his friendship with a rescue dog.

When Lucita's great-uncle Armando comes to live with them, he teaches her many truths about life.

In early nineteenth-century Paris, young Louis Alexandre helps his dramatic great-uncle Henri design a spectacular chandelier for Madame Marie's salon. Includes author's note about a chandelier in the J. Paul Getty Museum collection.