Heading to Penny Pincher Castle to visit his uncle for what he thinks will be a nice vacation, Geronimo is instead put to work.

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.

In the third instalment of the Eddie Dickens saga, our hero finds himself en route to North America with some of the most disreputable prospectors anyone might have the misfortune to share a berth with . . . only to come face to face with some familiar faces (stuffed animal and human) from his past, and with the Great Gretcha who suffers from serious bouts of sleeping sickness.

When twelve-year-old twins Philippa and John discover that they are descended from a long line of djinn, their mother sends them away to their Uncle Nimrod, who takes them to Cairo where he starts to teach them about their extraordinary powers.

"Perfect for fans new and old, this collection of Gravity Falls stories shares Dipper and Mabel's recollections of the adventures they shared visiting their Uncle Stan's Mystery Shack. The Gravity Falls twist? Each retelling is accompanied by a short "Grunkle Stan version" of the same story written form his gruff, humorous perspective. Readers have the choice of reading the Dipper and Mabel version, or the Grunkle Stan version. Designed to parody...

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.

"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."--

Mysterious things begin to happen after Uncle Claude comes to stay with his sister's family. Is Uncle Claude a thief, an imposter, or just a dream weaver?

After his nephew's parents are thought to be lost at sea, Uncle Elephant takes the young elephant in and the two make a warm, loving home together.

"Seventeen-year-old Michael visits his eccentric mad-scientist uncle who, busy working on yet another experiment in his cluttered lab, barely notices him. He keeps muttering things like "quantum multiverse transporter" and Michael has to entertain himself. Which is how he accidentally ends up in an alternate universe. Everything looks remarkably similar to his own world but with a few key differences, like lizard men and three-wheeled vehicles. And...