Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Published in 1839, Nicholas Nickleby is Charles Dickens' third novel. In it, Nicholas Nickleby must earn a living to support his mother and sister after his father dies unexpectedly. Turning to a wealthy uncle in London for help, Nicholas is hired on as assistant to Wackford Squeers, a sadistic and small-minded schoolmaster. Meanwhile, his sister must take a job in a milliner's studio and is occasionally pressed into service by their uncle who exploits...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mansfield Park is a study of three families--the Bertrams, the Crawfords, and the Prices--with the isolated figure of the heroine, Fanny Price, at its center. Fanny's quiet passivity, her steadfast loyalty and love for the son of the family who regard her as the poor relation, and who have taken her under their roof, are not appreciated until they are tried against the brilliant and witty Mary and Henry Crawford, the unfortunate consequences of whose...
Author
Publisher
Magination Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Uncle Willy will not stop tickling, even when his nephew says "stop," but with reassurance from his mother the boy tries again to tell Uncle Willy he tickles too much. Includes a note to parents on how to talk about "good and bad touching" and a child's right to say no.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Spending the summer with relatives, a take-charge girl tackles the challenges of her aunt's failing bakery, her great-uncle's unique ways of communicating, and her great-aunt's perpetual gloom, before discovering that she, herself, may need help"--
Author
Series
Samantha Spinner series volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Samantha's uncle mysteriously disappears, leaving behind extravagant gifts for her siblings and an old, rusty, red umbrella for Samantha that may contain clues to his whereabouts.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home.
Author
Series
Oona Crate mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In 1877, in an enchantment shop on the last of the Faerie roads linking New York City to the Land of the Fey, just after twelve-year-old Oona opts to relinquish her apprenticeship to her uncle, the Wizard, and become a detective, her uncle is stabbed, testing her skills.
13) Arch-conspirator
Author
Language
English
Description
"From dystopian visionary and bestselling phenomenon Veronica Roth comes a razor-sharp reimagining of Antigone. In Arch-Conspirator, Roth reaches back to the root of legend and delivers a world of tomorrow both timeless and unexpected. "A gut punch of a story. Roth takes everything fragile about love, everything powerful about certain doom, and blooms with it. You'll be holding your breath until the very last word."-Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling...
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumor, touching on everything from family violence to sexuality and the personal struggle to remain intact in times of intense trauma"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric uncle Billy's bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. On Miranda's twelfth birthday, Billy has a falling-out with her mother and disappears from Miranda's life. Sixteen years later she receives news that Billy has died and left her Prospero Books, which is teetering on bankruptcy-- and one final scavenger hunt. Home in Los Angeles, Miranda finds clues that Billy...
17) The diviners
Author
Series
Diviners volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.
19) The Silver Arrow
Author
Series
Silver Arrow volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Kate's humdrum life is transformed when her eccentric Uncle Herbert brings her a colossal locomotive train, the Silver Arrow, as her eleventh birthday gift, leading her and her younger brother on a mysterious quest.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Koo, a young panda, has a dream about saving the world, he worries that the job is too big for him to manage. But his Uncle Stillwater shows him that sometimes saving the world starts with doing little things, like being kind and considerate"--Provided by publisher.
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Santa Barbara Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try suggesting a title. Submit Request