This tale revolves around Fanny Price, who lives in poverty until being sent to live with her wealthy Aunt Bertram. While received warmly at first, she is soon discovering that her aunt is losing interest in her presence. What unfolds is a life of cold neglect and further trouble with a dramatic family in her new lifestyle.

A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.

Ever since her mother abandoned her, five-year-old Sophie has had to depend on her uncle Mitch for everything. But he's struggling. Restarting a life interrupted by time in prison is hard enough without having to balance work and single parenthood. Mitch is determined to make it work though, striving to keep their family together despite the obstacles in their way, because no matter how difficult things get, they are good for each other. And life...

A young rhinoceros learns self-confidence, love, and the value of memory from his great-uncle.

Eleven-year-old Ivy Manx sets out with her new friend, a young "taster," to find her missing uncle, an outlawed healer, in the dangerous kingdom of Caux where magic, herbs, and poisons rule.

When her Uncle Ted, the fireman, comes to stay with Clarice and her brothers and sister while her mother is away, things get somewhat hectic.

Kenneth Trachtenberg, the witty and eccentric narrator of More Die of Heartbreak, has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to be near his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described "plant visionary." While his studies take him around the world, Benn, a restless spirit, has not been able to satisfy his longings after his first marriage and lives from affair to affair and from "bliss to breakdown." Imagining...

Julia is lucky to have her Uncle Paco with her to help her overcome her moments of stubborness, fear and laziness and resolve her feelings of conflict.

Julia is lucky to have her Uncle around to help her overcome her moments of stubborness, fear, laziness and her conflict with feelings.

Carlos tries to help his uncle, who is frustrated and angry at his inability to speak English, adjust to their new home in Los Angeles.