The more I described my brother, my parents, our makeshift community before Dad left with the Council, the more I remembered, like the way my uncle jigged to heavy metal. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Holmes had obliged, out of respect for his uncle’s memory. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

My uncle had worked for a corporation and hated it—same thing, every day—and I was determined never to end up like him. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because I was just about one inch shorter than him and my uncle Joseph had died, Gabriel was the tallest member of my entire family. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Other villagers, including Nya's uncle, would resolve any disputes that arose. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I remembered those things, it was always my uncle I saw. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

That I didn’t have a brother who was killed, just an uncle who killed the enemy. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

His gaze found his uncle’s again, a pin that would not stop piercing. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Working around him were civilians who were on forced-labor details, just as he had been back in his uncle’s village. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

What would happen if he didn't take her to her uncle's house? Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I was moving so fast that I knocked down the fence my uncle Charlie had begun to build around Grandma India’s flower garden. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We scurried after our uncle to the cabin so we wouldn’t miss a word. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“She wanted to do some studying, so my uncle drove her over there.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s not an excuse, I want you to understand that I was heartbroken when I got home and my uncle was visiting and he asked me why I was looking so blue. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The man who lives here is our uncle.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As they continued with their journey home, the uncles planned what they would tell the chief and his people when they returned. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

"I will be young again!" the uncle repeated, then stopped. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Joseph remained in the entrance to the dining room, staring at his uncle, whose eyes stayed closed. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“If I do anything else wrong again...anything at all, then you can tell them everything. Please. My uncle is here from Pakistan and...,” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The uncle didn’t have it when they sent him to Fort National. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A long time ago, a little girl was sent away to live with an old aunt and uncle at the foot of a mountain. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Mom’s arranging for the uncles to move everything—the shed and my flatbed—to Annie's lot for storage. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“My uncle,” I start, but I stop myself. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He had managed to resettle in Virginia with his uncle. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The night before we moved, my father and uncle sat on a tree stump across the road. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a hunting cabin my uncle uses. He’s in California now, so I figured it was safe to break in.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It had knocked softly on the door of my uncles’ valley, and they had smiled and admitted her. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re not going to run anymore. If we run over there we’re going to die anyway, and my uncle is not going to be able to find our bodies.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Ditshabe and his uncles were ordered to go the cattle post and choose thirty head of cattle to bring back for the celebrations. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

According to ancestry.com, my great-great-great uncle was a “spotter” during World War One—he floated over the battlefield in a hot-air balloon and peered down into the German trenches. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Her uncle’s last sentence had three stinky Hs in it. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

From a distance I could see that he was too big and looked nothing like our uncle. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“No, your uncles talked the chief into arranging for us to be picked up by a Khmer Rouge truck. The truck will take us to Battambang. That is where your grandmother lives.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this bustling group of aunts and uncles swirled in circles as Sitti, their grandmother, threw her strong arms around each one of them in succession, squeezing so tightly that Liyana lost her breath. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It is, actually. They’re down in Brazil at my uncle’s for an extended ski vacation. The next person coming over is Antonia, to clean the house.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her uncle—her father’s brother—was like a father to her. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Let the nephew and the uncle conduct the debate,” Mda said as a sign of respect. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No need for us to do that, dear,” said Andrew’s uncle. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I knew that my uncle treated the matter lightly so as not to alarm me, and besides, if Tenorio was drinking it would take a long time before he gathered enough courage to act. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She struck one and held it to her uncle’s cigarette. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She wanted her own kids to know their aunts and uncles and cousins, and so the relief was profound when the Odyssey arrived at her brother’s house in Baton Rouge at eleven-thirty. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She was the only daughter; her four brothers went with her father, husband, and uncles “out on the road” and for some years became western men. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel my uncle’s eyes on me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He continued to sit as they drew near and he saw that one was his uncle and with him were three men whom he did not know. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, my uncle Woody has this humongous safe. The vault door is the size of a motel room door. It’s hidden behind a sliding panel in the front office.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“My uncle,” he said to Mr. Jacob Benally, using the polite form of address to show he respected this man like a relative, “are those other children in bilagaanaa clothing also Navajos?” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Red Viper was your uncle. And you have good reason to want King Hizdahr dead.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was before midday when Mr. Kamara arrived and my uncle had left for work. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I had met Aunt Cecile only once, when I was real small and Mama had taken us all down south for our daddy's uncle's funeral. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

And how could it be supposed that his uncle and aunt would spare him again?’ and so forth—I always felt that something would happen in our favour; and so it has, you see. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“And does your uncle Lord Asriel have any plans for you?” said the other lady, who was a Scholar at the other women’s college. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

One was a janitor, and one was my son’s uncle. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our youngest uncle, Billy, was not old enough to join in their didoes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

This Wang Lung heard his uncle’s wife say in the court outside his window as he lay dozing and weary in his room one early morning, exhausted with his love. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Adelaide asked, looking from her uncle to Hazel. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then we cried so much that our uncle refused to drive with us anymore. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her uncle's craggy face showed his pain plain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was a lot of things, my uncle, but he wasn’t a liar. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I would lie in this comfortable bed, thinking about my uncle’s house in Ningpo, realizing how unhappy I had been, feeling sorry for my little brother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She quickly alerted our parents, and my uncle went to investigate. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My Uncle Joe was unlike any other uncle. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I had shrugged off my aunt and uncle’s strict Baptist teachings years before. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She stood up tall, with her back straight, so that now she was almost taller than my uncle. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle’s daughter had married a man who worked at a bank in the capital. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Their account would claim my brothers first, then it would spread to my aunts, uncles, cousins, the whole valley. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And my grandma moved with her two kids to live with her brother, my great uncle Phil. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

At the house of the sick person, usually a cousin or aunt or uncle of ours, I put a holy look on my face. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the inked one holds up my uncle’s key chain. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, papa, what news—what news? Have you heard from my uncle?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

My uncle and me bow and he walks me back in my thick shoes to my mother who is proud to be my mother. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then Nate’s uncle fell to the ground like an empty sack. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The uncles—I don’t know what they looked like or how many. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I had an uncle who played in a professional band. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Her keenest attention was awakened; she longed to hear more, and was grateful to her uncle for saying: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

He thought he’d better get upstairs before his uncle came in. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The girl was very upset by this, and ran off to the house of her aunt and uncle. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know what was happening with your uncle,” he says. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Aunts and uncles and cousins began to fill the house, and there was a great deal of excitement. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was then my uncle Juan took my father and mother aside and whispered the desires of my uncles. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The uncle had told his nephews that he was going back to his hut, but in fact he hid in some trees nearby and waited to see what happened. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

"Your uncle," he said matter-of-factly, like he knew that was impossible. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Then he will go ahead and phone his old boss and hope that his aunt or uncle will call back, so he won’t need a second card. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Joseph followed his uncle downstairs to a hidden door at the end of the ground floor hallway. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Her uncle’s seething smelled worse than his fuming. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to pray, but no words filled my mind, only the close ness I shared with my uncle remained. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His uncle took an automatic step forward, the back of his hand raised at Redemption’s insolence, but the boy stepped forward as well, his eyes aflame. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I once had an uncle who bought pigs’ intestines in Ville Rose to sell at the market in the city. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, as I was saying—” For the first time in her memory, her uncle was bringing her back to the point. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I try to picture my uncle, who I haven’t seen since I was six years old, the only time I’ve ever been to Pakistan. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

On the same line, Shin saw his uncle’s crimes: disruption of public peace, acts of brutality, and defection to the South. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I heard my aunt call piteously from behind, but then my uncle said, “Swanle!”—Finished!—“She is already changed.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph let out his breath as his uncle burst from the carriage and ran straight inside the house, slamming the door behind him. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Uncle Ben, Papa Will’s uncle, was a traveling minister who held revivals across the state. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I miss everything about Syria: my house, my friends, my aunts and uncles, my cousins. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Too fast the summer leaves us, we kiss our grandparents good-bye and my uncle Robert is there waiting to take us home again. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Do you know why I bought that potion from your uncle?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s sad, all right,” I said to my uncle, successfully quelling the wave of grief that surged up from my heart. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I was shocked that back then teachers treated my mama and my uncle like they were stupid for speaking the language they learned first. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

That was because one of her brothers, my uncle Lucas, was sick. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had found two of his uncle's men in the wood, slain, but the corpses had risen in the chill of night. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“My uncle’s going to figure out something’s up the moment I call you George, isn’t he?” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

My uncles would kill me and Grandmother Baxter would stop speaking, as she often did when she was angry. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been a king’s son, a king’s brother, a king’s uncle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My uncle wasn’t a ghost rattling around the house. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

My father and my uncle were very close growing up, but then they had a major falling-out. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

That afternoon my uncle Mada invited me to watch a District League soccer game at the town pitch, and I went in hopes of testing my powers. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I’d heard Dad list all their deficiencies as human beings whenever my uncle Ken—Mom’s brother—came to visit. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Jack’s uncle had a small factory that produced spools of thread, but he could no longer go to a large city for necessary supplies. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

And although no one speaks of it, I know it’s not potholes my uncle’s worried about. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“When you said ‘Enemy Way’ this morning, I was thinking about your uncle.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The fun uncle is buttoning up his coat. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

When your grandparents died, they left your uncle and dad all their money. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

While Emily lay in obscurity on the floor, in the shadow of a sofa, with a medical uncle applying an expert tourniquet, a dozen relatives worked to calm her sister. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“My uncle once told me the house was alive,” said Joseph. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She felt a breeze as Redemption strode past her, past Pet, until he was standing over his uncle. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He had almost said “Hogwarts Express,” and that was a sure way to get his uncle’s temper up. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I spoke to my uncle about it, but he just listened, because he knew neither my mother nor my little brother. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He was standing by himself, leaning against one of the trucks and watching her uncle work the pump. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack knew his uncle and his family were somewhere in the crowd. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

But just blocks away from their uncle’s house, scattered evidence of gentrification— driven by the looming presence of Temple University—had started to manifest. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Two of Redemption’s uncles were sitting at the long table, picking out stones from trays of dried beans, while his baby cousins played under the table. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

David’s uncle, Halina Wind’s brother, Rabbi Leon Wind, presided over the ceremony, and spoke eloquently, with reverence and power. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father was dead, and his uncles had no use for him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“With his uncle. Useless man. Off his nut, as they say.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Put the picture back, I had said to my uncle, turning away from it. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Every morning now was like Christmas; we would climb out of bed and race to the kitchen and look on the table to see what “uncle” had left for us. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle had worked with him over the years when Big Schoolboy ran a freighting business, carrying goods back and forth by horse-drawn wagon between his home in Chinle and Gallup. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle was sitting on the verandah when I came from Allies room. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Not yet, but I’ve got an uncle on one, and maybe pretty soon.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your uncle may have been named for me. Some are, still. Not so many as before. Men forget. Only the trees remember.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I suppose I should have been amused, but I was too lost in worry that the uncle would be as unpleasant as the niece. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m really not messing with you. I needed to get away from there for a while, so they moved me out here to live with my aunt and uncle.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

"I heard Hake say the dead men were your uncle's," Pyp said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Shortly after we returned to my uncle’s house, the phone rang. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Laughter blew across the moon-coloured lawn from the house of Clarisse and her father and mother and the uncle who smiled so quietly and so earnestly. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So,” said Miguel, “did Andrew’s weird uncle talk to any of you guys last night?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The uncles all started to point fingers at one another, this one blaming that one, and that one blaming this one. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I spoke only to thank my uncle after he had given me transportation money to use if I decided to visit on my own. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Pa says we will go and live with our uncles in their village. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your uncle can boil his head,” she fumed. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“My uncle! What of him? Do you know him?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was joy to Wang Lung to find that his uncle was no longer in the village and where he was none knew certainly. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“When my great- uncle sold the house, after the war, he traveled back to Saint-Malo, and he salvaged the one remaining recording of my grandfather. It was about the moon.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I loved looking at pictures, especially pictures of all those uncles and aunts I had never met. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom asks, and as she walks into the house, Lola shouts: “Your uncle AJ’s wife’s third cousin’s hairdresser. You remember him?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

"I don't want to hear your voice. Your job right now is to sit there and wait for your uncle. Got it?" Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

After several awkward days, one of my uncles, Mutware, came over to help Mom and me talk it all out. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The day I arrived at my uncle's house, he gave me a hundred dollars to buy my own groceries. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She wasn't sure her uncle would let her stay, but she said he was a decent guy, "and his wife was in the Peace Corps." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Of course, my good-for-nothing uncle would give his buddy loaded dice. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

About a month ago my uncle visited us when he got a pass from the army. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Is his uncle a great guy or is he a great-uncle?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

One Saturday morning every other month, my uncle drove the two of us the seven hours to Malone, where my dad was in prison. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She lifts it as quietly as she can and holds it against the front of her uncle’s coat. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His uncle kept all food under lock and key. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Three people called the police on her while she was waiting for my uncle to come and get her. Suspicious character. Five-three, she was. About a hundred pounds. Real dangerous.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He checked the time on the glass clocks against the time on his uncle’s railroad watch, which he kept with his tools and wound diligendy every morning. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

At the cemetery the imam read a few suras and my uncle was lowered into the hole and covered with mud. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As a child I scarcely knew my aunts, uncles or cousins on my mother’s side. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He liked to say that Alba was a daughter to him, but that night he caught himself thinking that he wished he was neither her uncle nor her father but Miguel. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

How your uncle has always shaved the left side of his face before the right—for good luck, from habit. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“He has no love for his uncle. You know that much. I cannot say more, for I must keep his counsel,” said Horatio, who was always discreet. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But what saddened him the most was the realization—too late now—that despite everything, he had hardly known his uncle at all. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But I also knew my uncle didn’t do any of those things while he was in Vietnam. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“But my uncle does have a going concern.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Tell her you saw your uncle. She will know exactly who you are talking about.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m looking for some cattle. They belonged to my uncle.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The dishes, the crystal, the candles, the food, the wine, the chairs ... he realized this was the dinner party he’d imagined the very first time he’d looked through his uncle’s window. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And it looked like Deborah’s son Alfred was taking the same path as his uncles: by the age of eighteen, he’d already been arrested several times for minor offenses, like breaking and entering. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He asked for the uncle’s name, his wife’s name. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was some calmness in her voice which carried more strength than all Wang Lung’s anger, and Wang Lung’s uncle said uncertainly, “Will you really go south?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

When he saw me with my uncle he stopped and motioned. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the travelers arrived, the man discovered that the uncle no longer lived there, the house having been abandoned long before. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Tyrion realized he was echoing his uncle like a trained bird. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She’d check the price of train tickets or see if one of their uncles could drive out to get them. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And almost that long since I’d last seen my mother and father, my uncles and aunts and other cousins. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

"The right woman can," her uncle said with a side-ways glance. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“But why . . .” His uncle drew back a curtain in the corner of the room to reveal an old Victrola. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Afterward they would hop into Abuelo’s taxi and drive all the way to Abuela’s house, where her mother, grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins all lived. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But eventually, one single afternoon together didn't feel like enough time and the tradition evolved into weekend sleepovers at my uncle's house. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Since that time in the hospital, I’d asked my uncle about it again and again. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

His uncle opened wide his eyes and threw up his hands to the sky. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

My uncle Juan never hurried anywhere and so we turned our attention to him, knowing something important must have happened. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joffrey gave his uncle a look of pure loathing, then took Sansa's hands in his own. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Racehorses were the business of my father’s brother, my uncle Rex. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Go call your uncle and your brother in, baby.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

And foremost among the men in the village who exclaimed over his prosperity was his uncle, for his uncle in these days was like a dog who fawns and desires to win favor. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“To the theatre! Maybe we can find out what’s going on! There has to be a connection between the theatre and your uncle and the Marvels, right? And maybe with Marcus, too.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I miss my best friends, Jessie and Ethan. And my house. The guest room we have at home is bigger than my uncle Milton’s bedrooms.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I was going to tell whoever answered the phone that I was her uncle. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

His uncle Finn had suggested they split up in Joplin. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And Marquis, I got that from my uncle Larry’s car—he had a Grand Marquis. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle's voice, when he's speaking like a regular human being, is deep, but not in a scary way. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

When her uncle saw that she had stopped, he moved his horse closer and pointed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“A few days before I came to fetch you from your aunt and uncle’s, in fact.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The following Monday, right after dinner, my uncle put a recorder on the table. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

My uncle said it was one of the best schools in the city. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

"No. I was just going to give her a ride to her uncle's house." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The uncles smiled and nodded as Redemption and Jam greeted them, then fell back to their tasks, a low hum of conversation flowing across the wood of the table. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The rest of the family lives in apartments, so on weekends my uncles gather there to watch football and eat themselves sick. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The little girl did her aunt and uncle a favor,” Auntie Meiya said slowly, her eyes closing. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“She will be surprised. But I am supposed to say, ‘One ordinary loaf,’ and she is supposed to say, ‘And how is your uncle?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

You get your name from your two oldest uncles. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pineapple came with a letter from their uncle and his wife. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

They hoped that the solitude of the small village and the strength of my uncles would lend me the rest I needed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sohrab’s uncle had the kind of face that looked wrong without a smile. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

My uncle was giggling and I couldn’t help but laugh. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“She and her greedy uncle want the Riverview property for a luxury condominium complex.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

At his uncle’s funeral, he notices a shy girl with cascading curls of brown hair. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I asked about my other uncles and cousins, but Moshe shook his head. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

As it rolled by, Jean Louise made a frantic dive for her uncle’s trolley: “That’s been over for a—nearly a hundred years, sir.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Where my pop used to go to visit his aunties and uncles and cousins every month before he got married, moved to Stockton and had kids. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

My uncle had obviously been practicing this speech. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Uncle Jack, I thought I’d gone through all that being- disillusioned-about-your-parents stuff when I took my bachelor’s degree, but there’s something—” Her uncle began fidgeting with his coat pockets. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I don't think your aunt and uncle would like that.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She got up shakily, and went to stand before her uncle. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Since graduation, he said, he’d been working on his uncle’s farm; the waiter’s job was a new thing, something to fill the winter hours. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I sat on the ground next to the grave and talked to my uncle. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

His wretched uncle had a whole crew of muscled bullies he hired to collect money from people who owed him. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

So sitting there alone, I forced myself to cry, focusing on my dead uncle until I could feel the tears run hot down my face. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

We filed two applications—one through my uncle, and one through my grandmother. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He had only a few times sailed out at night with his uncle, but he knew that it was Owen’s favorite time to sail and this was Owen’s trip. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All because of your father and your uncle and their friends. You must be so proud!” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s all about T-O-N-I,” she says, spelling out our uncle’s name in English. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

All Clara had to do to see her uncle was close her eyes and there he was, weather-beaten and thin, with a pirate’s mustache through which his strange, sharklike smile peered out at her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You guys? We need to start our search for the treasure ASAP. Mrs. Malvolio and her uncle are definitely trying to find it, too.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Something about the way uncle says where you're going makes me think he's sending me away, someplace far from here. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“They call it the heart of Chinatown. A lot of elderly people hang out here during the day. My uncle comes here to play cards.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He was more dependable than my parents, grandmother, aunts, uncles, cousins, and big sister. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had gone hunting there in company with his uncles and Autolykos, his mother’s father—a great thief and swindler by Hermes’ favor, for Autolykos pleased him with burnt offerings of sheep and kids. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Joseph leaned over to pick up one of the broken plates, his uncle said sharply, “Joseph, stop!” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But then her sorrowful gaze turned to Doha’s maternal aunt and uncle. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

"And you have a deal more faith in your brothers and uncles than I do, my lady. The Florent lands lie too close to Highgarden for your lord uncle to risk Mace TVrell's wrath." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Where in the world was his uncle going? The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She cursed her aunt and uncle—what could they have been thinking of to bring the child here? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“And then their uncle comes in, and tosses them up to the ceiling in a very frightful way!” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

He had rather less sympathy for the uncle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I had no idea if I had my mother’s strength; I knew little more about her than I did about this long-lost uncle. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her uncle looked down on me and helped me up. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A girl was causing all this trouble in his uncle’s house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

By that time my uncle and I would be in Guadalupe, and Ultima would be safe with my uncle and my father there. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soot stains blackened both legs of his uncle's likeness. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My uncle’s voice gets quiet when he tells that part of the story. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“We can go no farther,” my uncle said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I was very afraid that my uncle would make me marry the older man, I couldn’t stay at the compound. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s my dad. They’re not getting along right now. It’s part of the reason I went to stay with my aunt and uncle again.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her uncle had refused to help her rule when she would have made him the King’s Hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The guest room was full of uncles arguing. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Maniac thought of Thanksgivings past, of sitting around a joyless table, his aunt and uncle as silent and lifeless as the mammoth bird they gnawed on. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph waited for his uncle to tell him to stop lighting candles, but Albert just stuffed his pipe with tobacco and said, “Bring me a match.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Along with his mother, he worried about his father in the concentration camp and his sister, Jadzia, who was still staying with the aunt and uncle. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

But he would smile that bland, pleasant smile—the smile of an uncle, a teacher, a clerk, all those men with all those teeth—a smile that just made him all the more terrifying. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The closest I had come was a daguerreotype of my uncle Crawford Steele, dead at age three of diphtheria, wrapped in swathes of white lace. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Thanks for getting your uncle to set me up to lead Taraweeh, man.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Hugo quickly realized he had to make it seem like his uncle was still around. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“I had an uncle who died from lung cancer,” I’d told him. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

And his uncle said, his voice a quavering whisper, “Well, and you are a s6n to me and more than that wandering one of my own.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Mom had said her uncles and grandpa were great hunters, that it was a family trait. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s such a sad situation. The children’s parents are both dead. No uncles, no aunts, no living relatives.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

My uncle, he gets drunk sometimes and winds up in jail. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I am on my way to the airport,” I said, smiling, as I knew my uncle was going to be sarcastic. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The young Jew pushed his uncle back against a timber-framed wall. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“If you would consent, uncle, to go away for the night, we should get together an armed band and capture Lancelot in the Queen’s room. You would have to be away or he wouldn’t go.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My uncle flies a big plane that drops bombs,” Billy said. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When her uncle fumed, he literally exhaled fumes. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Her shouts brought the servants streaming from the house, as well as all her children, who came as fast as they could when they heard their uncle’s name echoing amidst the cries of mourning. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you are interested in carpentry, I will be glad to have you as my apprentice. But knowing your father, I could probably guess that you want to go to school,” my uncle said. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She stood in the doorway of her uncle’s house and held her breath with wonder. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I won’t be here when you return. It is nice meeting you again, sir,” she said, looking at my uncle. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He even dared to stand up to her uncle! The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Meng tells our uncles that many Cambodians are leaving the country for Thailand in search of new life and to escape the war. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever he found himself losing hope, Salva would take a deep breath and think of his uncle’s words. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I need my uncle Jimmy to tell me which one it is. Will you keep looking for him? Please.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Her uncle's face was grave as he swung down off his horse. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“My uncle didn’t know, sir,” I said to the superintendent in impeccable Afrikaans. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But your gran taught me lessons just like your uncle is teaching you and Jay. I simply decided I didn’t want to learn anymore. For reasons I will tell you when you’re older.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I got to know my uncle quite well during our walks, and I began to eagerly await his arrival on weekends. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When he thought of this he sweated heavy cold sweat, and he dared to tell no one what his uncle hid in his bosom. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

One week, as his uncle’s security guard returns from trading Honduran lempiras, robbers drag the guard off a bus and kill him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Halfway through the journey back, the uncles fell upon Ditshabe and struck him with some rocks that they had picked up in the bush. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She remembered her uncle’s words in their last interview, and began to explore underground, for what was above ground was only a small fraction of the whole. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

"Nothing to say, Your Grace?" his uncle went on. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"You can marry off your sister," Esgred observed, "but not your uncles." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The parlour “aunts” began to laugh at the parlour “uncles.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me finish. “My uncles, they had a plan to do something to Trujillo, but somebody told on them, and all three were shot, right on the spot.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got pretty punchy, imitating aunts and uncles and cousins we would be seeing the next day. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“But now that my dear uncle is come, I hope everything will be well.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“The choice * was his. His uncle would have made us bleed.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"My uncle is out there," Jon Snow said softly, leaning on his spear as he stared off into the darkness. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"My uncle's the one who will need mercy, but I won't give him any." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung had also his own secret trouble with Lotus since the day when he had protected her slave from the son of his uncle. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

When I held the cutlass in my hand to start attacking the bush, Gibrilla’s uncle couldn’t help himself. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

"May the gods go with you on the morrow, Snow. You bring back that uncle of yours, you hear?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"I heard the horn. Has your uncle come back?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I did not meet the new “uncle” again, though each morning I saw evidences of his having been in the house. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The uncle was away, but the aunt invited the investigators inside and launched into a venomous rant about how Ernest had married one of those red millionaires. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Is Matthew Wood your uncle then? His name is well known along the river.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The trip to his uncle’s village revealed the final chapter of his family’s fate. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few days after my uncle was buried, I was finally able to make a collect call to Laura. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

From Rikers Island, my uncle is sent to a prison upstate we can visit. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Remember, Little Nightingale, you can always stop doing dangerous things. And you can prove yourself trustworthy, right? Start by forgiving your uncle for his anger. That would be a nice gift.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I want to keep listening to find out what Baba thinks my uncle won’t like about America. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily my uncles and cousins would have embraced us and talked, but everyone was too scared of being out after curfew to say anything more. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

You are your uncle’s only living family member. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

She saw her uncle’s face shimmering among the tiny dancing lights. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

My uncle said he’d leave him alive if he untied him, so he did, and then my uncle killed him anyway just to teach him a lesson.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In later years, when Mama Lessie told me this story, I wondered, If he was an uncle, why did Johnny have white skin? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes sir, I promise, but—” “Now scat,” said her uncle. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Another of her uncle Bill painting in a field of dandelions like a hippie. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

This time it's one of the "uncles"; I don't recognize the voice. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His last uncle had just died and left him a large fortune consisting of property in the South and in Fort Worth, Texas. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I see the fearsome face of Claudius, Hamlet’s uncle, who murdered his father and married his mother, my dear queen Gertrude, whom he poisoned. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

My uncle was sitting in a chair right next to me. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He looked from the man to me, then said, “But, sir, my mother has sent Charlie and his uncle to fetch me to Detroit.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Your dad called my dad this morning, when we finally got service back. He said something about a family emergency? Then your uncle Phil came and picked me up, and here we are.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was sure that when her uncle returned he would be furious with her and lose all trust in her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned over the table at eye level, just like his uncle used to do, and he slowly, carefully polished the table until it shone like new. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She watched her uncle maneuver salad greens, olive oil, vinegar, and several ingredients unknown to her with the same precision and assurances he employed on a difficult osteotomy. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The veterinarian was unable to pinpoint his origin and Clara decided that he was from China, because most of her uncle’s baggage was from that distant land. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He related the whole story, from his father’s discovery of the automaton up in the attic of the museum, to the fire, to the arrival and disappearance of his uncle. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I scrolled through, my eyes hesitating on a picture of Tamika with her uncle. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She was the only person in the house who had the key to her uncle’s tunnel of books, along with his permission to take them out and read them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had an uncle in Minnesota who would have conversations with himself, start to finish, and maybe this old gentleman... This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

After a heavy supper we settled in the room of my uncle Mateo, because he was the storyteller. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” replied his uncle easily, “but I will eat with you.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

We had ridden most of the day in the truck with our uncle because he wanted to talk chess with Lynn. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I hated when my uncle tried to play parent. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

After Eleanor got out of the truck, Park had waited in front of her uncle's house. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Joseph couldn’t help noticing how careful his uncle was with the surface, how he caressed it and stared at it, as if the table were the most important thing in the world. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There were sounds now that came from a memory of my uncle. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Nathan struggled to think of the Navajo word for paternal uncle. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Now that I’m older and I’ve taken the trouble to get to know her, mostly through my aunts and uncles, I know she was none of those things. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They decided to use an empty garage that was owned by one kid’s uncle. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“The spirit told me how my uncle poured juice of henbane into his ears, curdling his blood and cutting off his life.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She remembered what her uncle had said of baskets and winches. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She went on an aerial flight over Mount St. Helens once with her uncle, a big-shot photographer for National Geographic. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crack of Redemption’s fist as it drove into his uncle’s face was the loudest thing Jam thought she had ever heard. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Besides”—Joey took a deep breath—“I don’t have an uncle Sam.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stories start like this— Jack and Jill went up a hill, my uncle sings. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Hey, Kenya,” Daddy answers, even though he’s not her uncle, but her brother’s dad. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The gunshots woke everyone, and I joined my uncle and neighbors on the verandah. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“If our aunts and uncles are alive, we will be with them soon.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his uncle, his nephew, and his sister asked him for money, he was expected to lend it. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Shortly after the wedding, Mom’s brother, my uncle Jim, died in Arizona. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But wait a second—why didn’t your uncle or one of those other ancestors dig up the treasure if they all knew where it was hidden?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

More deaths come, more telephone calls starde them in the middle of the night, more letters arrive in the mailbox informing them of aunts and uncles no longer with them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “It’s difficult seeing your uncle hurt so much.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

His uncle began to pace up and down, Aunt Petunia and Dudley following his movements with anxious expressions. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But that was months after he disappeared, and by then her uncles had already done their evil. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Maybe each of them is thinking their own dream—of daddies and uncles, brothers and cousins one day being free to come on board. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I am compelled to lend it to my uncle,” he replied shortly. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

My uncle turned toward me to see if I understood his words. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered how much his uncle had hated that dog, and he prayed they’d catch her quickly. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

At his mother’s flat on Amherst Street, where his uncle’s family lives now, neighbors look from their windows and roofs as Gogol and his family emerge from the taxi. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was left in the house, then, none but the uncle and his wife and son and Ching and the laboring men, besides Wang Lung and his youngest son and the fool. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It was not that my uncle’s house in Ningpo had been poor. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Has your master magician, your uncle, power like mine;?” asked the Queen, firmly seizing Digory’s hand again. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Every evening since she had come here she had sat waiting with impatience for her uncle’s monotonous voice to cease. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Now my uncle picked up a porcelain vase. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sleep came, and with it came my dream-fate which drew me to the witches’ Black Mass. I saw all, and it was exactly as my uncle had described it. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cory always swore he had an uncle in a motorcycle gang. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

At the doors to Lysa's apartments, they met her uncle storming out. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then Big Ma said, “Oh, no, you re not. Take that army hat for show-and-tell and be glad you have that. And that your uncle is home.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The brown waters of the River of the Carp wound their way southward to the orchards of my uncles. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said no, because I already had one, but being my uncle was the best thing he could ever be. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And they have grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins, or even brothers or sisters who are already grown up. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Not really. I picked up some stuff from just listening to my parents speak to my aunts and uncles, but I understand more than I can speak.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He had done that very thing back in his uncle’s village. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

One evening, a neighbor who lived a few doors down from my uncle s house was listening to a pirate radio station that accused the new government of committing crimes against civilians. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Here she is,” he said to his uncle. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But said uncle was as real as the dusty old trunk I didn’t think actually existed. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Jon wondered what his father would do, how his uncle might deal with this. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“My King, my lord and my uncle. Is it the court’s will that I pronounce sentence upon this recreant traitor?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other person who now entered my life was my uncle Lee, finally out of jail. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

My uncle says that when you tell stories, it’s like letting out all the scared inside of you, I said. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I have got wide eyes on my uncle Drum. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

We all slept on the floor in one room, my mom and me, my aunt and my cousins, my uncle and my grandmother and my great-grandmother. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Silly, her mother, her uncle, and her brother also attended. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The ghost of Hamlet’s dead father tells him to avenge his murder by killing his uncle. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I wanted to go to the United States of America, but my uncle was big and strong, so he pried me away with little difficulty. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sandi was on when a visiting aunt and uncle dropped in for a visit at college early Sunday morning. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They were my aunts and uncles, but some of them I hadn’t seen since I was a child. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell them about the discovery of my uncle, but I felt guilty, since no one from their families had been found. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When he came to our family parties, my uncles would give him a hard time for being such a dork. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My uncle opened the door and said, “You okay?” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

So it was with excitement and not a hint of misgiving that I waved good-bye to my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, ready to begin a new life. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

What if he is just some man pretending to be my uncle? A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then she will wait a bit longer in case her uncle comes home, in case she hears anyone pass by, the town crier, a fireman, an American serviceman with gallantry on his mind. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My uncle said only if I wanted to. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They had to stay with her uncle’s family. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

One of my uncles used to joke that he would like to die at this time of year. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Had her uncle ever been to a husking? she wondered. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t been invited to the wedding—and wouldn’t have come if they had been—but the way they patted his back and rubbed his shoulders, they seemed like a chortling chaw of benevolent uncles. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“My uncle died when he and my dad were little. My dad has a sister in Baton Rouge somewhere, but they don’t speak no more. It’s just me, my dad, and Mikey.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He had been brought up by an uncle in San Francisco and was visiting his father and mother in Torino when war was declared. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

When we returned, my uncle was on the verandah, waiting to take me back to the center. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“But when?” my uncle asked, and he turned and looked at me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still held my uncle in my arms, tears running down my face. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Even his uncle had abandoned him in this cold place at the end of the world. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Many a younger son of the King in die North had made his seat there, many a brother, many an uncle, many a cousin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And maybe Appa does have a brother after all, and this man is my real uncle. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He told Moss about his uncle dying from a drive-by and then how the Oakland PD shot his brother during a traffic stop. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The room smelled like the alcohol prep pads my uncle kept in the medicine cabinet. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I’ll leave you with Mina and be back for you in an hour? If I can, I'll see if my uncle can look at the records, to tell you if Mirjam has been brought through.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

My uncle, a senior consultant surgeon in a huge London hospital, came home most weekends. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I raced to the pavilion and found aunts and uncles laughing as they used chopsticks to pick up dancing shrimp, still squirming in their shells, their tiny legs bristling. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. This was where your uncle worked. He’ll be much missed.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

"You ought to be ashamed of such talk, my lords. Where is your grief? Your uncle is dead." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“And to think,” said his uncle, “Luigi’s unraveling really started with one book. The one you plucked off the shelf for me, Marjory. It was the straw that broke the camel’s back.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Joseph, overwhelmed by everything, slipped the leather case with the photograph into his pocket and said, “Frankie, you should go now. My uncle might be back soon.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise raised her hands and her voice: “What the hell am I to think? It made me sick, Uncle Jack. Plain-out sick—” Her uncle scratched his ear. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She wished her uncle wouldn’t use words with H in them. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The villagers and my uncle thought that I was strange enough with my spots, and my reading made me even stranger in their eyes and made my uncle hate me. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She counted vigorously to herself, and admired her uncle’s ability to talk and dance simultaneously. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

If they could just get to St. Paul, Eleanor's uncle would help them figure it out. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

At night, lying on his mat, he could not picture himself doing the brave things his father had done, or his uncles, or the heroes of the stories. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle vomited after we had seen the act. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“My aunt and uncle have been very kind.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

‘That is just the way my uncle used to talk.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then one day, after me and Holly had become friends, Kira walked over to my uncle in the school yard. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Later that night, when my uncle and aunt returned from prayers, all my new family gathered around a cassette player on the verandah to listen to stories. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Joseph stepped into the house and looked back at his uncle. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Amos . . . isn’t just my patient, he’s my uncle, it’s part of the reason I took the job at Upper Flagley. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“Your uncle will die if he doesn’t get to say good-bye to her,” JoJo said. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded, and he looked at my uncle and said, “This child shows great promise. Our orphanage is full, but I will make room for her under one condition. You cannot return to claim her.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to laugh, too, because my uncle was trying to say something and he was so possessed with laughter that he couldn’t say a complete word without launching into another fit of laughter. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Every good thing that happened had happened with my uncle. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Sheriff Smith said Bryant admitted taking the boy from his uncle’s home but said the youth was released when Mrs. Bryant said he was not the boy who made the remarks to her. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I knew my uncle was back to being himself. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry you did not know I was here. I got a phone call from Frankie’s mother, and I brought your uncle home.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Although we were surrounded by her longtime friends from college and my uncles and aunts from both sides of the family, it wasn’t enough. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Normal for us,” said Harry, and before his uncle could stop him, he added, “you know, owl post. That’s what’s normal for wizards.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

An uncle told me that he wished more men in the community would encourage their daughters to be like me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m Adelaide’s uncle. You can call me Martin.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Oh sit down and shut up,” said her uncle. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They had planned to stay with Park’s uncle, and that uncle now came into Shin’s mind. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

A cool breeze drifted through her uncle’s open windows. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

At one time there were eleven altogether, cousins from Noxubee County, uncles who came and went with the picking season, and my old Aunt Tess. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Bedlow would not have her in the house, unwilling to bear the responsibility, and Dr. Morris had declared her too weak to travel to Maine to her uncle’s. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I know now that he wanted to protect us from war, but at the time, I figured he was keeping them for an uncle in the military. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

My uncle and his old stereo and his army of battered CDs lined up on the kitchen counter, two stacks of cooking pots as bookends. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Your uncle owns that whole building you live in. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We warmed water in a large basin, and Ultima bathed my uncle. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Becky began to talk of leaving for her uncle’s house in Jersey. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jon looked up happily as his uncle Ben put a hand on his head and ruffled his hair much as Jon had ruffled the wolf's. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But not just uncle, a specific uncle: your mother’s brother. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t pay in money, of course, or put it on the Compucount: we used other things, some jewelry that was my grandmother’s, a stamp collection Luke inherited from his uncle. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was radiant as she watched our father and uncle carry boxes into our new house. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The prospect of parting—probably forever—from his aunt, uncle, and cousin was one that he was able to contemplate quite cheerfully, but there was nevertheless a certain awkwardness in the air. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was truly the work of a bruja that was slowly killing my uncle! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stayed with my aunt Shaina, now known as Jenny, for a few weeks before moving into a one-bedroom apartment in the building where my uncle Morris, my mother's brother, lived. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Redemption hit his uncle in the face, snapping his jaw to the side. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

When an aunt or an uncle would come into my presence, I could not look at them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father was old now, and so too his uncle Victarion, who commanded the Iron Fleet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Finally, an uncle who had recently resettled in America told me, “Okay, let’s go.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Like, I don't know, an uncle sneaking into your room? Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Lyra’s uncle moved across to the fire and stretched his arms high above his head, yawning like a lion. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the house, my uncle was playing his guitar. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He and my uncle laughed and I smiled. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They slept in separate bedrooms because my uncle's snoring was so loud it was inhumane. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The men stopped at the tree, and the strangers talked to Nya's uncle some more. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This is ridiculous. We came to tell our uncle something, and it is right he should be told." The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

For my father or uncle, working at comparable jobs when they were my age, such sensations were to be feared. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She inherited the apartment from her uncle Steven, who loved her and lived alone and died of AIDS. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Getting worried, now, are you?” said Mo’s uncle Tam. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I spotted a few cars pull up and watched the procession of aunts and uncles walk toward our front door. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

One of the uncles brought his guitar and everyone sang and ate, and the cousins played in side and outside, blending the indoors and outdoors so it all seemed like one. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Exploring. But the way the man was talking I don’t think my uncle’s on the same side as the Gobblers. I think they were glad he was in prison.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“This is where me, y’all’s daddy and uncle, and just about every other kid in town learned how to shoot, thanks to your old granddaddy here.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But behind his father’s coffin his uncle rode first. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Late that Saturday night, he and his uncle began to argue with one another in their home on the Southside of town. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle's house was big and fancy, and I had a queen-size bed all to myself. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

"Well...I was wondering if maybe you would have a cupcake with your uncle." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“They call it the heart of Chinatown. A lot of elderly people hang out here during the day. My uncle comes here to play cards.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But still he knew very well that even this could not have saved him in these times of robbers and lawlessness if it had not been for his uncle. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Gracious, I’m drunk. “. . . look back, now,” her uncle was saying. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

My uncle sat on the edge of my bed. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Who are you? Was my uncle working for you? Did you kill him?” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But she was right—our uncle didn’t like to eat out at first, until Mustafa gradually got him to come around. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

My uncles gave the same to Laleh, who screamed and ran around shouting, “I’m a millionaire! I’m a millionaire!” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

If it please mine uncle, King Arthur, to accord with him, then the King will lose my service and that of all the Gael. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

His uncle, with easy good nature, called to the children and took from some recess in his crumpled clothing a copper coin for each child. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Zohra laughs without a trace of envy, and I smile through the ache of missing my uncle. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“You’re right,” said my uncle, but he was shy and walked in back of her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her aunt and uncle talking in the kitchen long after she went to bed. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

This year the station was packed, not just with students and newsmen, but also with parents, siblings, uncles, aunts, grandparents, cousins, next-door neighbors, and utter strangers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“You need orange juice, stat. Whenever my uncle used to get the shakes, OJ would fix him right up. That or honey or hard candy.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“What’s the matter? Don’t you have anything to say to your uncle Finn?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Don't forget. You're mine now," my uncle says, grinning in a way that feels all wrong. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Her uncle could annoy the hell out of her when he chose, apparently he was choosing to do so now, and she resented it. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He sat close to his uncle then, on the wagon seat, above the bony gray rumps of the mules. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When they say yes, my brothers plead with them to bring word to our uncles that we have arrived. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father has not been on speaking terms with my uncle for some time.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It’s an hour and a half later before another buzz pulls him out of a deep dive into Richards’s uncle’s suspicious 1986 taxes. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Theydivorced not long after that, and my grandmother moved to Orlando with my mom, my aunt, and my uncle. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Hear her mother singing, listen to her uncle’s silly stories? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My mother was a stranger to me when she first arrived at my uncle’s house in Ningpo. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It also helped that my uncle had settled down in California and was willing to take us in. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

There are scores of other possessive puzzles: Are you a friend of Jake, or a friend ofJake’si Are you going to your aunt and uncle’s house, or to your aunt’s and uncle’s house? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no question that his uncle would help the men. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“My prayers are with you,” Alex said as he saw his uncle out. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Kira, Holly’s mom, had asked my uncle about doing my hair and he agreed. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“It is almost time to go to my uncles’ farms in El Puerto and gather the harvest,” I said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light Hair and his uncle watched in silence. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe his uncle was a naval historian or a sailor. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I play the first words of Esteban’s story over and over as my father’s song lifts up to my room, as my uncle packs above me, as the blue jay perches in the Ailanthus tree. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Once I had thought I was going to die if my uncle didn’t buy it for me, and now, climbing onto it, it suddenly seemed silly and childish to me. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“He took Raventree and accepted Lord Blackwood’s surrender,” said her uncle, “but on his way back to Riverrun he left his tail and went off with a woman.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Three white men and a woman had gone to his uncle’s home and asked if the boy from Chicago was there. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Our uncle returned his attention to his table, brushing aside stubborn gnats as he scraped bark from a twisted, blackened branch and put it in a jar. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When my uncle first came to live with me, I was afraid. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Rachael glanced at her uncle; he nodded and she grudgingly returned, seating herself as before. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Rab must see to it that the uncle who every week smuggled out copies of the Observer also took out the British deserter. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My aunt came out of the room, tying her head with a cloth, and followed my uncle. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The subject professed great familiarity with his uncle’s work. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Three uncles had been among the hundred sixty-three on the plaza. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

First my uncle died of the scurvy and we got his pigs. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just Auntie An-mei’s little brother, but also his wife’s stepbrothers and stepsisters, and a distant cousin, and that cousin’s husband and that husband’s uncle. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great-grandfather was the old man who lived with them, as the river-pirate great- uncle was the old man who lived with us. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay. So why did your uncle want the last copy of Flora and Ulysses?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

My uncle asked him to write an appeal for early release. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Our uncle said that Dove Canyon still had water after the Tap-Out,” I tell the others. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“If the nephew dies in chains, these uncles can claim his lands and lordship for themselves.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That’s all there was to it, I think, also recalling the sling my uncle made when I was a kid. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My third uncle, my cousin, my father, my grandfather.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I loved sitting out on the porch with your uncle Damani waiting for Frank Ski to play “Fresh Is the Word.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Joseph returned to his uncle’s bedside and, as if awakened by the Marvels, Albert opened his eyes and turned to Joseph. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It’s not playing a joke that any eight year old boy could have thought of, it’s letting your own uncle be laughed at by a man that would wear a red tie. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her two uncles were very close to her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The uncle Abel was talking about was not a real uncle but a friend. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He did not hesitate to speak like that, to his father and his uncle, because the subject was books and scientific knowledge—those things that Rocky had learned to believe in. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

That night my uncle brought home a bag of groundnut. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Sick this, dentist that, dead uncle the other. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

His aunt and uncle never spoke about them, and of course he was forbidden to ask questions. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The second thing I noticed was Sohrab’s uncle, who stood behind the counter. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She talked on and on about how much she’d suffered as an orphan at the hands of her aunts and uncles who hadn’t treated her half as kindly as she was treating us. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And I realized that the fathers and brothers and uncles who made my friends stay home were doing so out of concern for their safety. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Would I take them from her to give to my uncle? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He sat in the back of the rowboat trailing his hand in the cold wake while his uncle bent to the oars. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He had no idea what his uncle would say if he showed up unexpectedly at his house. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I was so relieved to see it was our uncle that my whole body sagged. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We never went on fancy vacations, and most of our furniture was stuff my uncle had bought from thrift shops. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The other letters said that my uncles were made to kneel on broken glass during their trials and had confessed to being land-owners. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the life in front of me was my uncle’s house. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Gregor’s tenth birthday his uncle had sent him a pocketknife with about fifteen attachments, and his mom had put it away until he turned twenty-one. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I painted that the night before I reported to juvie. The judge had accepted my plea agreement, and I was living with my uncle because I couldn’t go back to my parents’ house. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It charged — my uncle lunged and I behind him — thrust! — felt the spear pierce. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

If a neighbor asked, we said the chicken was a gift from our uncle in Harare. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

His uncle’s green eyes, which had been as hard as jewels, suddenly went wide. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Our uncle told us stories of our mother and introduced us to his family. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

My mother never wanted me to be like my uncle, one of those men, unemployed and still living at home with his mother. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

By the time my uncle raced over and pulled him off me, I was crying and covered in dust. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

My aunts, uncles, cousins, and I are all a product of the life she lived and the life she bravely chose not to live. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how to tell my uncle all of this without getting so sad and feeling like a dumb kid who couldn’t even help her friend. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know how sick your uncle is,” Pa said. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Yet, whenever White or Smith mentioned Hale, he stiffened in his chair, more afraid of his uncle, it seemed, than he was of the law. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"Can you please send Patina Jones to the office? Her uncle's here to pick her up." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

When the soldiers marched and made a sharp left turn, I saw that hat sitting on top of my uncle’s shaven head. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The last person who had slept here had been his uncle, Ian Rider. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Send me against my uncle, and I will bring you back his head, and the head of this false dragon too.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She runs her fingers along the stones of the chimney until she finds the lever her uncle installed there. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Joy Luck uncles are already seated at the card table. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The um-hmms went around from Miss Trotter, Mr. Lucas, my uncle. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

"The talk is, your uncle is too long away." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"Pulling down table-cloths, screaming, running away. Do you know that your aunt and uncle have been thrown out of their hotel?" The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I guess he wasn’t my uncle after all. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We’d cackle until our ribs hurt, imagining our prim, professorial uncle meeting Dad’s unruly crew. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I guess it was designed to be an offer I couldn’t refuse, but I’d have rather spent the summer in a Siberian labor camp than live with my uncle and his spoiled kids. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She wrote a memoir about her childhood called Period Piece, in which she described her grandmother Emma, her Darwin aunts and uncles, and Down House. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A conquest that lasted a summer," his uncle pointed out. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She and the others are consumed by the slayings of the two uncles; they pay little attention to Enrique. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I know Blue is at church right now with his mom and uncle and cousins, and they all went last night, too. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Nearby, on a small table, was a stack of envelopes—his uncle’s uncashed paychecks, accumulating week by week. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

At the funeral, my uncle Vin escorted us to the mahogany casket in the front of the church to have our final viewing of the body. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Now she stood up and faced my uncle. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I called him my “uncle,” and by custom he was allowed to negotiate with any man who wanted to marry me, asking for cows in exchange for his consent. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was Earth and there the coming war, and there hundreds of thousands of mothers or grandmothers or fathers or brothers or aunts or uncles or cousins. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I remember this. Your aunt and uncle and I were just kids,” she said. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He kept saying to me, my uncle told me, ‘Go get her. Please go make her wake up.’ Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Me, Sabeen, her uncle, and father sit cross-legged on fluffy pillows with tassels. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Andrew?” his uncle Woody called from outside the front doors. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I felt sorry for him, and I regretted having mentioned Billy’s uncle. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Richard,” said an uncle, “you know how sick your mother is?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left Freetown early in the morning of the seventh day after my uncle passed away. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

One daughter married an army general who for a time governed Formosa, and it was this uncle- general who encouraged Papa to enroll in a military school. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The uncle suddenly appeared at the front door. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“How many times have you been back to visit your aunt and uncle?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Some of their extended family members, such as aunts, uncles, and grandparents, often accused them of faking it for attention, like Connor’s dad did. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Every night, we would all get together after Sam had just said good-bye to some uncle or had another lunch with her mom or had done more shopping for school things. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Besides all that, Julia’s aunt and uncle—the people she lived with across the canyon—were black. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

My uncle was the only one in our family who had ever been to the white man’s school. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that my uncle slept, and Ultima readied her things for departure. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Mose Wright, the kid’s uncle, complained that a couple local guys had been pickin’ on the boy, and he remembered that one of ’em’s name was R.C. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sohrab said something in Farsi to his uncle, who looked like his knees were about to buckle. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Six months before my big sister is born, my uncle Odell is hit by a car while home in South Carolina on leave from the Navy. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

As proof they passed around a photo of Bekhir’s uncle riding a goat- pulled wagon. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Lyra watched as her uncle poured a cup of coffee, drained it at once, and poured another before sipping more slowly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

A crazy thought entered Joseph’s mind: What if, by some miracle, Blink had remembered his uncle’s address and had made his way here, too? The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He watched his uncle for a few moments, then said, “What’s that smell? I like it.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Whatever the truth was about his uncle’s past, someone had just wiped it out. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

"He isn't a direct uncle—they said he's your father's cousin, not your father's brother—but I'm so glad they found him. I really didn't want you ending up in an orphanage." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“You’ve been fighting with Mo at school?” said Mo’s uncle Tam, but he didn’t sound convincing. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

His uncle Gerion thought that was the funniest thing he had ever heard, but his uncle Tygett said, “The last dragon died a century ago, lad.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Deputy Collins pointed his sweaty finger in Doc’s face, and I could see, even under his thick beard, how my uncle’s jaw clutch up tight. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

My hanging clothes surrounded me like loving aunts and uncles telling old family stories. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I knew the earth was fruitful because I had seen my uncles make it bear in abundance; but I never realized it could be like this! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At your aunt and uncle’s house,” said Ron. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“He must have been planning this festival all along. It isn’t easy to get paperwork approved to do something in the neighborhood,” my uncle Carlos complained. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

James’s uncle and aunt lived on the adjacent property, and they did what they could to help Eliza manage her land. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

My uncles were not men of many words. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Exhausted and wet, he felt like the survivor of a shipwreck himself, a lost boy who’d just washed up on the doorstep of his uncle’s mysterious house. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And his uncle laughed and said carelessly, “You are under a good heaven. There are men less rich than you who hang from the burnt rafters of their houses.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

There were no grandparents, no aunts or uncles or cousins like other foster kids sometimes had. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“My uncle took the call from your superior and by now he probably has—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Like I said before, my uncle is very smart. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Moving day has turned into a party, with uncles carrying in boxes, aunties in the kitchen stocking cupboards, and Mom excited and ready to decorate. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

In the week’s holiday after preliminary training, before the probationer year began, she had stayed with her uncle and aunt in Primrose Hill and had resisted her mother on the telephone. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

"I was thinkin' more of a grandmother who was a famous enchantress, or an uncle who was a prominent warlock, or a brace of fairies somewhere in the family tree." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

This would have been one of the most painful moments in Clara’s life if Barrabas had not arrived among her uncle’s things. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched him eat a grilled nutria once at my uncle Henry’s annual game cookout, and I couldn’t even taste that thing. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

In one blow, all of our extended family in Narewka, some one hundred relatives—my grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins—had been murdered. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The García girls left on that flight, as did my grandparents, uncles, and aunts and their families; then Lucinda and Susie; and finally, a few days ago, Sam and his mom. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you’ll be needing a lift out there,” Deerfoot said with pretended casualness, “your uncle said he would be going.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My uncle's going to think I'm a drug dealer." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

My uncle didn’t have children of his own, so he raised the children of family members as his own. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was so very typical of his uncle to put his hopes in the establishment, even within this world that he despised and mistrusted. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Besides, his weekends would be his own to spend at his aunt Maria Teresa and his uncle Leandro’s house. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your mother would always try to pinch my cheek when I first met her, my uncle was saying. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Shorty had dropped out of first-year high school in Lansing, lived awhile with an uncle and aunt in Detroit, and had spent the last six years living with his cousin in Roxbury. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two of them together looked like uncles shooting the breeze at a family reunion. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes my uncle went out on dates those nights. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

And when the uncle, who was fond of jokes, said, “Are we not to see the moth-browed bride?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Now that none of my uncles are around, Papi has a lot more to do at the office. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“You know, your grandfather, Ghazi Sahib, the judge? Now, his uncle and my grandfather were cousins,” she said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Kappe instructed Haupt to tell his uncle Walter about his brother's imprisonment and warn him that his cooperation was the only way to help his brother get out of the concentration camp. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

In Campbell, agents stopped at the austere house of Bryan’s uncle and aunt. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They walked along the shore while his uncle studied the treestumps, puffing at his pipe, a manila rope coiled over his shoulder. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

My uncles were quiet and the odor around them was deep and quiet, like damp earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I think back to that way of life now so distant, I feel a sense of longing, particularly for my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Be gentle with your uncle. He’s a delicate man, like the teacup, I’m afraid.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Sit down. Your uncle always liked this tune. I used to play it on the old piano in the back of the shop. Listen.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then he went into the enclosure and he looked carefully and he saw the place where he would lie below his father and his uncle and above Ching and not far from O-lan. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I took my plastic bag and followed him to another house that was behind the one with my uncle’s bedroom. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When I heard my uncle, I leaped from my grass mat and hurried to her. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle and I left the hospital room and started walking in the direction Esther had suggested. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know much about hydrophobia, but after what Bud Searcy had told about his uncle that died, chained to a tree, I knew it was something bad. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will accept that responsibility on behalf of all my brothers,” my uncle Pedro intoned. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an invitation from an uncle and aunt to accompany them to New York. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When his uncle came again Wang Lung cried out, “Even filial piety will not feed my house!” and he sent his uncle empty away. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Tanks, says Ab, my uncle.Tanks, tanks, tanks, and it’s hard to keep up with him on the streets bad as his leg is. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“My father and uncle are coming,” Amil said, now in a lower tone. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It's out there in front of you, my uncle says. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Yes. He is the man who threatened you at El Puerto when we went to cure my uncle Lucas.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I thought to myself, My uncle was wrong. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much to his unhappiness, thirteen of his children were girls, leaving my uncle and his precious son, Usman, the child of his first wife, as the only males in the household. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m realizing now that our uncle has no idea how sick he and Daphne might be. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then after a time Wang Lung’s uncle’s wife came out, laughing a little maliciously, and she dusted her hands together as though to free them of something that clung to them. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

My father and my uncle Jim from Pennsylvania were sitting on folding metal chairs and smoking cigarettes. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Hendrik and Hanni named him General, but their aunt and uncle said the people they bought the farm from called him Mole. He lived in a culvert. I like the name Mole.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Her uncle bounced back into the livingroom, sipping from a tall glass filled with ice, water, and whiskey. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Nodding, Robb had studied the map her uncle had drawn him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At length however, the question was asked by her uncle; and she turned away with alarm, while Mrs. Reynolds replied that he was, adding, “But we expect him to-morrow, with a large party of friends.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“I like doing things more. One of my uncles was a carpenter. I think that’d be good, spending my days with a hammer and a saw and a bit of sandpaper.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I knew the water rattling through the pipes when my uncle showered and how the dog in the backyard across from ours barked every morning when its owner let it out. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I think I might be your uncle,” he said, whizzing about the office. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

An uncle donated his old jeep to the festival, and today we’ll find decorations to make it shine. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Some of the kids have uncles in Iraq and lots have family who work at Tinker Air Force Base in Midwest City, Oklahoma. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“No times two. But it’s a firm that also has offices back in Georgia. Milton, Georgia! Milton like his uncle who’s great,” I say. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Her evil uncles appeared on a cold early morning, right after Aziz walked into the courtyard and found her mother dead. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“How is everything? Are they treating you well at this place?” my uncle asked. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And my uncle likes the stories I'm making up. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

They had quarreled with their father, and rebelled against their uncle Onela, king of Sweden. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

While FBI agents raced to the home of Herbie Haupt's uncle, Herbie had already gone to the draft board and registered, and was in a taxi on his way to the FBI office in Chicago. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I also heard that other men were talking to my uncle about taking me as a wife. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Nya reached the head of the line, she smiled shyly at her uncle, who paused in his work for a moment to smile back at her. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle saw it before I did—the kid coming toward the slide, me speeding through, then coming out into the light just as the kid sped past. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Ah, but fortunately,” said my uncle, his eyes twinkling, “you are a dedicated scholar of ancient history and literature. You were able to solve it, I think.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I ask enough questions, I usually learn that I know their families—their moms, dads, aunts, uncles, or even their grandparents. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Having spoken thus plainly, he went away to his own house and left his uncle’s wife screaming. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Aunt Maggie’s husband, the “uncle” who had fled from Arkansas in the dead of night, had deserted her; and now she was casting about for a living. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A son comes before an uncle by all the laws I know.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I crept by Mr. Lucas, who was asleep on the sofa, and picked my way through my uncle and cousin camped out on the living room floor. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I turned to my uncle, smiled at him, and said, “Thank you for coming to see me. I really appreciate that you have offered me to stay with you. But I don’t even know you.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

To add to our bewilderment, our mother called us to her one day and cautioned us against telling anyone that “uncle” ever visited us, that people were looking for “uncle.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had not even thought, in his anger at his uncle, to stop and see the face of this small, new creature. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

When she confessed that her uncle had molested her, I was shocked. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“We signaled yesterday that we would reach Wethersfield at dawn. I expected that your aunt and uncle would be here to meet you no matter how early it might be.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The uncle was a kind man, and he welcomed his sister and her sons. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Judith's willingness to be out at night and her boldness at the school make more sense knowing that her uncle is on the Council. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was the King's uncle and commanded the third army. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

That uncle would look after the other uncles, and so they would all be happier than if their nephew were to be the new chief. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“The Greatjon has sons and daughters both. In the north the children of a man’s body still come before his uncles, ser.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The uncles laughed at this bird and told it to go away. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I have not seen you these many days,” called his uncle with loud and affected good humor. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I came in sight of my uncle’s house with a heaving chest; I bounded up the steps and rapped on the door. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually all of my school friends and aunts and uncles and cousins would have come to see me read in the synagogue. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever we paused in our crying, the only other sound inside the truck was the sound of my uncle smacking his chewing tobacco. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the Katrina coverage with a knot in my stomach, knowing that if a disaster hit Chicago, many of my aunts and uncles, cousins and neighbors, would have suffered a similar fate. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Some Muslims I know, like this one uncle, says it all the time, like it means “hopefully.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

This thing was that the son of Wang Lung’s uncle cast his eyes upon the second daughter of Wang Lung, who was his cousin and by blood the same as his sister. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“I think I’m not going to be an uncle anymore.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“You should have seen them sitting in that meeting yesterday—” Jean Louise looked up at her uncle, who was balancing himself dangerously on the back legs of his chair. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

His dad was a CO, he told me, his uncle a policeman, his sister a scientist. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Boobie did just that, because nothing meant anything to him anymore, not even his uncle. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry did not doubt that speech would return to him, and soon — the vein pulsing in his uncle’s temple was reaching danger point — but something about Dumbledore seemed to have robbed him temporarily of breath. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But her good intentions clashed with her need to talk with her uncle about the things that preoccupied her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we filed an application through my uncle, my sister and I were finally issued work permits, which we were able to use to obtain our own Social Security numbers. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see her put the scrap of paper, the one that had been stuck on our fridge since the day Stan died, the one with my uncle’s phone number on it, onto my desk. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I will tell your words to the whole village!” screamed his uncle in a high cracked voice of fury. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Chiba: “I have an uncle who knows a lot about botany. He lives in the country near Hita-Gun. He’s a bonsai master.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our uncle could rewrite his Fourth of July speech and use it to sell bonds. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Of all my uncles I loved my uncle Pedro the most. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The moon of the Lunas,” my uncle remarked, breaking the silence of the entire trip. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this was too much . . . he was not grandfather or uncle or father, nor preacher or teacher. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are all seasoned men, Jon told himself... but his uncle Benjen and his rangers had been seasoned men as well, and the haunted forest had swallowed them up without a trace. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Always there were my uncles and aunts and cousins to greet. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Redemption had stood up behind Jam, staring at his uncle, his hands balled into bloodless fists. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Vincent is worried Tersteeg will tell Ma and Pa and his uncle’s how he's living, ruining the peaceful relationship they all have at the moment. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I did not understand the complaints of Mr. 03-01 and his merchant brothers, uncles, nephews, and cousins, the others in the 03 series. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"They found no sign of your uncle, no more than the others did." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Joseph’s whole body shook as his uncle slowly stood and walked across the room. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She knew she had overheard an account of serious insubordination to the King, yet in her heart she was glad that her uncle had known this small victory. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

My mother’s sister is my mother; my uncle’s son is my brother; my brother’s child is my son, my daughter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a long way to the cattle post, and Ditshabe and the uncles were very tired when they arrived. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

And he said to his uncle, “Ask whom you will for my son’s marriage, any of your friends or any of your son’s friends.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

And nothing was more galling to my uncle than finding me outside, sitting cross-legged on a grass mat, studying and writing my letters, which I copied from the Qur’an. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, most people suspected the marriage had been an arrangement of sorts between Ali and his uncle, Sanaubar’s father. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Your uncle Bill says he’s going to get me a lawyer. He wants me to sue the boy’s family. It’s true we need the money to pay Dr. Friendlich, but I don’t know...” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“That’s why it’s essential for us to send someone else to Port Tallon. Someone to continue where your uncle left off.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The need for isolation, the grandiosity of the confabulations, the disorientation and confusion—these were all eerily reminiscent of his uncle’s descent. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to tell your uncle on you,” she said at last. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks like the grumpy uncle of the guy on the Lucky Charms box. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I knew I had witnessed a miraculous thing, the appearance of a pagan god, a thing as miraculous as the curing of my uncle Lucas. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a crowd of people behind her—aunts, uncles, cousins, and people I either don’t know or don’t remember. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We’d be with our uncle, moon over the Jackson Five, and get candy without spending money that could go toward our Madison Square Garden savings. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Our uncle even went south to talk with our old neighbors, to find Father’s old friends. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then we got back in the truck with our uncle, and he never stopped talking. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then my uncle raises his hand to his heart, and a mini version of his smile slowly appears on his face. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

His uncle’s wife had nothing active in her body except her tongue and this she now loosed upon Wang Lung. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Malachite retorted, and even the uncles all the way over at the table laughed. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A task force of over two dozen Philadelphia police officers, Baltimore City and County police officers, and ATF and FBI officials flooded their uncle’s narrow three-story row house. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Is it that Rachel girl who was here earlier?” my uncle asked. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He told me that his more liberated views of the Negro were in such contradiction to those of his elders, his parents and uncles, that he no longer went home to visit them. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Don't call me the boy," Robb said, rounding on his uncle, his anger spilling out all at once on poor Edmure, who had only meant to support him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Yes, I think he’s my uncle Ahmad, who fancied himself a storyteller. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

"Any uncles or aunts or grannies who would come and see you?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

"My uncles pose no threat to me," he declared. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His uncle loved him; without his uncle, he is lost. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

If ever I missed my uncle’s dimples, it was now that he didn’t smile at this perfect opportunity to tease his favorite niece and let his dimples show. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“But I had to take you with me because our uncle Jack...” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Or that in two days, I hadn't figured out how to get the hot water to work in my uncle's bathroom and that no form of deodorant would mask the stench of my body odor. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Looking back on that day, I’m reminded of a story Loomis told me about his uncle in Macon who chauffeured a bride and groom around the state on their wedding trip. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We would all stand; my uncle, leaning his walking stick against the wall, would lean his weight on the table. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t want to stand near and compete with the old uncles positioning themselves in the middle of the block to play a six-string guitar. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were right about your aunt and uncle, Starr. They ain’t too bad. Your grandma kinda cool too.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

That night, as Olanna lay on her uncle and aunt’s bed, she watched Arize through the thin curtain that hung on a rope attached to nails on the wall. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dagmer was no true uncle, only a sworn man with perhaps a pinch of Greyjoy blood four or five lives back, and that from the wrong side of the blanket. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“And your uncle was brave too. This is what they gave him—what they gave Wood—when he was killed.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Grabbing her coat and her mother, Jo ran to her uncle’s apartment. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Antain stood outside of his uncle’s study for nearly an hour before working up the courage to knock. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Martha said, “I remember talking to my oldest uncle; my sister and I were visiting with him before he died. We said, ‘Who did this to Grandpa Vaughan?’ Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I had a feeling my uncle had already told him about Momly. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got bad news. Your uncle Lee was killed last night.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“She didn’t die. Your uncle thinks she is dead. Tour uncle is wrong.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Nelson had stayed at Mama’s, saying he was going to bring in the new year talking to his uncles. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No!” my uncle gasped, “the man is insane!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His uncle was always having to sell his grain before it was even well ripened. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

During break, I search for Rabiya and find her in the courtyard, eating a plate of biryani that a white-haired uncle is passing out. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was fighters he wanted, and men who would be loyal to him, not to his lord father or his uncles. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They have their tea but Uncle Pa Keating, who is my uncle because he’s married to my aunt Aggie, picks up Eugene and takes him on his lap. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Aziz lost her dad, then lost her mom, then the uncles arrived as if they had heard the news of their sister already. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

This was the second time this morning that her uncle’s wrath had descended on her head. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle Howard was my mother’s younger brother. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The modish bonnet with curling white feathers seemed to her uncle a crowning affront. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan’s coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle who had painted the pony claimed he had seen a UFO come down over that very same hill before the drive-in was built. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise said she would, and asked her uncle what was on his mind these days. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The hedgerow was thorny, and I was too small to push past it, so I ran along the gully on the side of the road and watched my uncle march into the wood. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“His uncle bought it illegally in South America. He snuck it back to the States when it was a baby. You know what it eats?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

And his uncle Q. One I can’t handle; the other I can do something about. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Kelly let her uncle into the small apartment. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The laws that make grandmothers grandmothers, uncles uncles, mothers mothers, cousins cousins, jam jam, and jelly jelly. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Chiltington waited for him and his uncle to walk down the driveway. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Sixteen years of being addressed thus left Harry in no doubt whom his uncle was calling; nevertheless, he did not immediately respond. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I thought about what my uncle’s reply would be to him: “Don’t let them get your hopes up, young man.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

His place was taken by Freud, who, like his uncle Figan before him, was twenty-three years old. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

For once Kit was inclined to agree with her uncle. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The chief silenced them, and asked the people what should be done with the uncles. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Her uncle said, “Jean Louise, there are to this day in Maycomb County the living counterparts of every buttheaded Celt, Angle, and Saxon who ever drew a breath. You remember Dean Stanley, don’t you?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“It is? Just because this stranger shares a name with my uncle and goes to a math school, that doesn’t really feel like a major sign. Maybe if his name was Lucy.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t—you—ever—open your mouth about your uncle, or call him out of his name!” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Sixteen stitches behind your ear, my uncle said, bending forward to kiss the top of my head. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He spent weeks in his uncle’s quiet apartment before he was ready to go back home. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

My uncle talked and talked, and my father listened and listened. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There are lights on in every room of my cousin’s house, and several of my uncles’ junky cars are in the driveway. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

One year, when my parents learned from my uncles in the military that my tribe was under threat, we packed up and moved to Burundi. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Soon my uncle will be finished packing and will come down to join him on his guitar. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The day my uncle told me how my mother died, I was six years old. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Your uncle is a better cook than I am.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“How grateful you must be, young lady, for the kindness of your aunt and uncle in your time of need.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I got up, but I pushed right past my mother, and my uncle in Mexico, on my way to my room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In Grandpa’s room, I see my uncle Paul. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The next day his uncle came to the field where he was working. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, every time we shoot one of them his cousin and his uncle die, too,” Peewee said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles Clinton Spaulding left his family’s farm in southeastern North Carolina in 1894 for Durham, where his uncle, the town’s black doctor, Aaron Moore, lived. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me, Officer, may I ask the man a question? Please? He might know where my uncle is,” Nathan said as politely as he could. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Vonetta got mad and said, “My uncle did not go to Vietnam and shoot up poor people.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“And who better to help than your uncle?” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Joseph thought of Penney at the theatre and he spat the old man’s words back at his uncle: “Stories aren’t the same as facts!” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

My uncle Carlos slapped his forehead and went to the kitchen to grab a pitcher of water for the table. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Alex killed a couple of hours knocking a few balls around on his uncle’s snooker table—and then felt vaguely guilty when Jack caught him at it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I'm not their father. I'm not their cool uncle. I'm here to keep them safe. Here to protect them. Even if it's from themselves. Anybody here?” he shouted again. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Better keep calling him my uncle. I’m afraid of him too, sometimes.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In front of him was the green door his uncle had told him about. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He turned slowly and looked at my uncle Pedro who stood on the running board of the truck. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which reminded him of an uncle of his that got mad- dog bit down in the piney woods of East Texas. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nate crawled along his uncle’s vegetable garden, tugging up weeds and flicking away fat green worms. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

For my next report on Robert Frost, I will count the memories of my uncles. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Deep in a pocket was the address of an uncle in the same section of Queens where John Zannikos had gotten his start. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Why should you take it upon yourself to mend a roof for the Quaker woman?” demanded her uncle. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I should have mentioned An Yi’s uncle, I thought, but I knew it would not have made any difference. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Asha had never shared her uncle Aeron’s faith in the Drowned God, but that night she prayed as fervently to He Who Dwells Beneath the Waves as ever the Damphair had. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My uncle said when people come together and they all care about the same things, it’s called a Harmonic Convergence. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

By day, Enrique runs errands for his uncle, washes his five cars, follows him everywhere. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

One uncle tried to usurp power but was killed by the other. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her uncle raised a hand before she could protest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My uncle is a musician and a storyteller. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

This guy Pete, my uncle sort of, said he’d drive us home, just give him a minute to get his coat. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Her head bowed even lower when my uncle slapped her for calling him Brother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shinálí, I don’t mean for my anger to go to you. Your uncle has a way of getting under my skin,” she said, in a much calmer voice. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He said he remembered better than anyone when she was murdered because he was her uncle. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I considered going up to the den and watching SportsCenter or something, but I didn’t want to run into my uncle. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Although he never said it, I could tell that my uncle had befriended the inmate. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Twice a week, she calls Mr. Washburn in Washington to find out if there’s any news about Papi and my uncle. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Did you know my uncle proposed to Carrie, back in the fall?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Everyone else, including his mother, his brother, and his uncle and his family, was on the other side. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Her uncle is Heath Huxley. The real estate developer.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

If our uncle plans to ignore us unless we speak to him in Urdu, there’s going to be a whole lot of silence around here. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I called him Mamaji, mama being the Tamil word for uncle and ji being a suffix used in India to indicate respect and affection. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll be my apprentice,” he vaguely heard his uncle saying as they walked. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

When he stood, he could see his uncle look upon his face and flinch. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Uncle said to Vonetta, “I’m your uncle, not your equal. Don’t you ever mouth off to me. Do you hear me, girl?” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

But, perhaps he could not in her mother’s presence be what he was before her uncle and aunt. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

For weeks I wondered what it was that “uncle” had done, but I was destined never to know, not even in all the years that followed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no way to get past them and to the upstairs—there were caterers and waiters and nosy aunties and uncles everywhere. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Her brother had been saying that he was going to revenge his father and uncles, and the rumor all over town was that Trujillo was after him. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle Sammie was also married and had been eager to find Luke and me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Our uncle had only whipped us once before and then only with a peach-tree switch, so maybe now he was going to kill my brother. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just listen when my uncles talk. I think my dad would have liked that.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Enrique wants to go with him, but his uncle says he is too young. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He would sail till morning and while he was sailing, holding a true line for Owen, he would think of his uncle, think of all that Owen had been to him. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and my uncle looked so much alike, no one could ever say they weren’t brothers, but now my dad looked so much older. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The rest of my uncles were very gentle and kind, but they were very quiet. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And soon I began to hear this man mentioned by my father and uncle and aunt’s new husband. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, we called out to anyone on their stoop or in the street, “Our uncle is back from Vietnam.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“That was the name of my uncle’s pub. My dad’s brother was an innkeeper too, and he had a pub at Richmond and I liked the name.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Betsy grew a little stronger as the weather warmed, and in April her uncle came to take her to Maine. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Stay with me. Stay in California. You don’t have to move back in with your mom and your uncle.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

With the money bag now in his uncle's hands, Haupt and his parents left the Froehlings at eleven o'clock and went home. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

My uncle, who had indulged in blackberry liquor, danced a disjointed jig around the backyard of the cottage, trying to imitate our mothers. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He thought of his bulky uncle and how he had walked next to Bo, his hand possessively on his brother's thin shoulder. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

"It's said that you have uncles, brothers, a sister." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He said our house because a couple of my uncles had built their houses against his until the original house spread into a long house with many of my cousins living in it. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My uncle doesn’t love squirrels. He hates them. What he loves are birds.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

After we had finished eating, my uncle showed me his carpentry tools and his worktable, which was outside, occupying most of the little yard. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Here! Then just head east. No need to get bogged down in Bristol. M4 to junction 18, then the A46 to Bath. Bob's your uncle.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

But he told his uncle everything as best he could. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle s driver, Nuredin, opens the rear door of the car, and Mama comes out wearing large-framed sunglasses and a thin scarf tied at her chin. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

"This is the house where I work," my uncle says. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She looked longingly on as her uncle found the package of candied chestnuts and ripped it open. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He thought he heard footsteps on the stairs, but his uncle didn’t appear. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“We, Holy Beings, will aid the medicine man through the process of healing your uncle.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then my sister Princesse took me aside and explained: My favorite uncle, Rumenge, the officer who always brought me treats and new clothes, had been killed in one of the conflicts in the region. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Four weeks were to pass away before her uncle and aunt’s arrival. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I was raised by the music community, with dozens of aunties and uncles who took me in as their own little foundling, even after I started showing a strange preference for classical music. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With my uncle. He wanted to get married, and there was a goldsmith he knew. He thought maybe he could still make him a ring. You wouldn’t believe what the SS do in there.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“What if your uncle figures out I’m not really a girl?” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

My uncle Daryl, who I barely knew, suggested that his brothers and sisters should spend an afternoon together at a favorite restaurant in Lava Hot Springs. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

After waiting for months, Nguyen and her uncle Huynh’s families were sponsored by a church in Saint Paul, Minnesota, whose members helped them learn English and find schools, housing, and work. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Joseph reached into his pocket and showed his uncle the papers. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

‘She always tries to show off. She’s going down to Mister Brannon’s café to get candy. He’s her uncle and she gets it free.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

So we climbed into the noisy truck with our noisy uncle. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

This police station is much nicer than the one where I met my uncle, and the policeman seems nicer too. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She wished she were fluent in Hausa and Yoruba, like her uncle and aunt and cousin were, something she would gladly exchange her French and Latin for. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Using the mattress as a stretcher, Grandpa and an uncle had lifted Granny from her bed and had rushed her to the safety of a neighbor’s house. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so I thought of a way for Nelson to be in the capital, under supervision so he wouldn’t be running wild with women or his rebel uncles. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She blinked several times, and her uncle snapped into focus. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise sat there, and giggled when she heard her uncle fussing at his sister in the kitchen. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The child pretended to be frightened, but she knew her uncle was a doctor and that the bag contained the tools of his profession. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked up anxiously at her uncle's house. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“And is he your father?" “...their uncle," Victor answered. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

One morning I was roused by my uncle’s voice calling gently but persistently. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was his dead uncle’s name, he said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ray, who became like a big brother to me—well, maybe more like an uncle—was worried about me staying in the house by myself. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I overheard them talking about fixing Mom up on a blind date with August’s uncle Ben. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

When they saw a family of pheasants, my uncle propped a rifle out of the window of the Chevrolet and shot. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I didn’t count on him being able to find my uncle in such a big city, especially with the little information I had provided. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They called my uncle by his first name and ordered him around the Store. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t say that. It’s just that Mother doesn’t feel she knows a person until she knows their aunts, uncles, and second cousins twice removed. She just likes to have her ducks in a row.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Time passed and my uncle paced and asked the guards what was happening. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

My uncle laughed less and less, and sighed more and more. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I’m not the same Niamh who left her gram and aunties and uncles in Kinvara and came across the ocean on the Agnes Pauline, who lived with her family on Elizabeth Street. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

‘With him it’s always the same. Sick this, dentist that, dead uncle the other. Never rains but it pours.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luma learned that the boys lived in all kinds of improvised family arrangements, often not with parents but with uncles, aunts, and cousins. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

"And then your uncle and I will be young again!" When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her uncle said it was the only way to save herself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They were fully aware that they could only inherit their uncle’s fortune if “closer” relatives—such as a wife or child—are proven not to be rightful heirs. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They were coming home from church, a big group, my mom and Andrew and Isaac, her new husband and his children and a whole bunch of his extended family, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

His uncle was at the back wall, fiddling with the combination lock on a large steel door. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“You two learning from your uncle how to work the roots?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

"My uncle said I could spend the summer with him. Maybe he'll let me come up to St. Paul early." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Her uncle smiled, and an unholy light appeared in his eyes. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Emmett pauses, closes his eyes, then mutters, “I begged my cousins not to tell my uncle and aunt. ‘I don’t want to be sent back to Chicago,’ I said. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

I patted myself, satisfied that they were flat enough that my uncle would not notice them. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others reported seeing Bryan and Anna leave the speakeasy in the company of a “third man” who wasn’t the uncle. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My uncle sat in the small chair at the foot of my bed and started strumming his guitar. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I need to talk to my uncle Jimmy.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Mary Hudson sat down between me and a boy named Edgar something, whose uncle’s best friend was a bootlegger. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He had lied, of course, and had instead gone straight to his uncle to beg for enough cash to buy a plane ticket. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

His father had forsaken him, his uncles, his sister, even that wretched creature Reek. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My uncle sat quietly for a time, stroking his mustache with the little finger of his right hand. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a snooker table in the basement of the Chelsea house and he’d often spent evenings playing against his uncle. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

My uncles began to pour into the room to greet their brother. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After decades of neglect, I find myself thinking about departed great- aunts and -uncles, long-lost grandfathers, unknown fifth cousins, or, in the case of an inbred family like mine, all those things in one. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Returning to the livingroom, Jean Louise found her uncle in a suppressed whirlwind of impatience, in vivid contrast to her father, who was standing casually with his hands in his pockets. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The names of all the uncles, both grandfathers, and the four great grandfathers had been used. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you physically touched it, you dislodged it from your uncle and it attached to you,” First Turkey explained. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Then we will go visit my uncle. Your great-uncle. In Saint-Malo.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Immediately after a bend and a rise on the gravel road we came upon my uncle’s house. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Go,” the Reader had urged, as the captains were bearing her uncle Euron down Nagga’s hill to don his driftwood crown. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They’d marked his uncle Albert’s house at 18 Folgate Street with a big red X, as if they were looking for treasure. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Think, he went to Tennessee to visit his uncle.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, me and Jay stood next to Mama and my uncle, Doc Buzzard, in that graveyard, listening to the pastor say lots of good things about Gran. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

"My uncle spoke truly," he whispered to Ghost. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You got an uncle, right, in your old country?” he asked. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Fadi had hoped that by some miracle Mariam would have turned up at their aunt and uncle’s clinic, but it hadn’t happened. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Anyone who was a friend of your parents was automatically called “auntie” or “uncle.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I am sure, uncle,” returned Mrs. Joe, “I wish you had him always; you know so well how to deal with him.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was so glad to see my uncle and to just have him here. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Didn’t my mother quiz me on uncles and aunts and cousins, too? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, Sheriff. And as soon as I am able to reach my uncle by telegram, I am sure he will tell me how happy he would be to repay your generosity.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Her uncle is also wary of the drug-addicted teenager. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“You can’t just live off your uncle for the rest of your life, Cabot,” his father said. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

None of my aunts or uncles had graduated from college; many hadn't graduated from high school. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He stumbled into the study and bowed low before his uncle, as he always did. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Mami’s mother had been one of fifteen children, and Mami had endless aunts, uncles, and cousins in the barrios that stretched like tentacles from the wide avenues and shady plazas. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

My uncle took each letter and promised the inmate that they would be delivered. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I would even stay with a friend at night because I was afraid my uncle would make me go with one of these potential husbands. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that the SIM discovered the plot and most of our uncle’s friends were arrested. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He has never, from what I can tell, sipped anything stronger than a beer, and even that was during a Father’s Day barbecue, at his uncle’s prodding. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

My uncle says that sometimes two people come into the world having the same fight they left the world having. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Mah uncle come for me. He say hurricane warning out in Palm Beach. Not so bad dere, but man, dis muck is too low and dat big lake is liable tuh bust.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

My uncle looked straight at me and I felt my skin warming up. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

After his victory in Poughkeepsie, he had journeyed alone to Pennsylvania, where he visited his uncle Sam and aunt Alma Castner, who had taken him in all those years before, when his mother died. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His parents are seated at either end of the table, and his aunt and uncle are right next to his mom on the left side. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The afternoon sun made shadows on his uncle's bony face, deepening the hollows under his cheekbones. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since my father was shorter, most of the bees concentrated on my uncles head. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I worked alongside my uncles and cousins and their companionship was good. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The visitor mentioned by the Master, Lord Asriel, was her uncle, a man whom she admired and feared greatly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

If only she could have obeyed her impulse this morning and told her uncle the whole story. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Had the Station Inspector begun investigating and found out that Hugo’s uncle was gone? The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He didn’t think she’d seen him, but his heart raced as he ran back to his uncle’s house and returned to his room. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how it got there, but I was inside of it, the sirens blaring, my uncle’s ragged voice, the bright lights and someone else—a paramedic maybe—moving around us. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

One day a few months earlier, my uncle Howard took me out to shoot hoops at a park in the Bronx. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Which means I have more memories of Jonboy the pastor’s son than all my uncles combined. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I heard a million! My uncle worked in one of his factories before Liberation, and he knew all about Old Rong.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I could not take my eyes from my uncle. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside him was Little Hawk, his uncle, who was just as astonished at the sight of the endless line of wagons. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

My throat tightens as I see this altered version of my uncle lying there. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if you ought to go” “You keep out of this,” “uncle” said, still peering into the dark street. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

This uncle was the younger brother of Wang Lung’s father, and by all the claims of relationship he might depend upon Wang Lung if he had not enough for himself and his family. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He had told everyone that his father was the igwe of his hometown, and had sent him to Lagos to live with an uncle until he turned twenty-one, to avoid the pressures of princely life. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Joseph glared at Frankie, aware of how much he sounded like his uncle. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

My uncles Abraham and Moshe, my cousin Dawid, two more men I recognized as friends of my father, and three more I didn’t know. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

While Mama and Papa began cleaning up the apartment, the kids helped their aunt and uncle pack up. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Arthur’s dad was expecting Jessie to take Arthur’s bed, for Arthur to stay in his uncle’s bed, and Ethan to camp out in the living room. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I cover my mouth with my napkin and cough and cough like some tubercular old uncle. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I remember hearing my uncle shout from upstairs for us to call 911 and to immediately evacuate the house. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Mundín says that our uncle has been feeling bad that he got out just in time, leaving my father and Tío Toni and others to bear the brunt of the dictator’s son’s wrath. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Leaving her stool, Lupita came at once into the room and stood before her uncle. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s just, you smell like your daddy and your uncle used to smell. Oh, hand me that bag.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Ah, you’re worrying about the reaction of your aunt and uncle?” said Fudge. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“My uncle John was your uncle John? You, Diana, and Mary are his sister’s children, as I am his brother’s child?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Besides,” said Andrew’s uncle, “I don’t like that book. It’s one of the worst of its kind.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Don't wait for your school to teach you, my uncle says, about the revolution. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I had been thinking how Ultima’s medicine had cured my uncle and how he was well and could work again. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is this what you want to do?” said my uncle. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I called my biological mom in Birmingham and my uncle C. J. McNear. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

She didn’t learn the truth until she drove to her uncle’s house to find comfort, and he told her it was a play. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The two boys cowered in the corner of the cage, and the uncle could hear the younger one weeping. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

It was easy to lose sight of him, but I could pick out my uncle among the rows of soldiers in those sad green uniforms. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

And now suddenly he saw why he had been safe and why he would be safe so long as he fed the three of his uncle’s house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Mother, Father, my aunts and uncles, my cousins, my friends in Kraków, I missed them all so much. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Aye, uncle, and every man kens fine how you have tried. But that dinna alter the truth, that we both desire at heart she may come safe.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A smile started to form on my face, but it stopped when I saw Jay’s look of worry mirrored on my uncle’s face. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But he was my uncle and I had given up hurting from what he had done to us a long time ago. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Despite the tumult of the times, I was a happy, chubby baby who slept through the night and was loved by an extended family full of aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandmas. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I put on a clean dress and stood between my auntie and uncle at the foot of Popo’s bed. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had gone to bed knowing my uncle was a thief who would steal from his nieces. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the islands it was scarce unheard of for a strong, ambitious uncle to dispossess a weak nephew of his rights, and usually murder him in the bargain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“He’s staying at your uncle Spencer’s place tonight.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s really good of you to do this....They’re through here, my aunt and uncle and cousin....” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We’re having to cut corners and sell off our uncles’ cars and the furniture from my grandparents’ house from when Papito was making money. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

One of her forebears, the third Aegon, had seen his own mother devoured by his uncle’s dragon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was speculation that Burkhart would defect again and return to the fold of his uncle, but this time Burkhart answered the prosecution’s questions forthrightly. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Jon rose at dawn the next day to watch his uncle leave. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

On the day of the performance, all the students’ parents and aunts and uncles and cousins and siblings have come, enough to fill the auditorium to overflowing. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She notices how the teenager, who comes from his uncle Marco’s wealthier neighborhood, is neatly dressed and immaculately clean, and wears his hair long. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Eventually, we became the only members of the Sanjideh clan who lived in the country illegally, as we patiently waited for updates on the adjustment-of-status applications we'd filed through my uncle and grandma. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then I wouldn’t see him until we came in from school and he’d be laid out on his bed in the parlor room where Cecile slept when my father and uncle first took her in. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

His uncle said the top was wide enough for a dozen armored knights to ride abreast. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m getting a baby cousin! That’s what my uncle came over to tell my mom yesterday.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Joseph slipped some of the matches into his pocket and went to find his uncle. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Like my uncles I told you about. Then, two more uncles, and then my father.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled the blanket tighter around himself and thought about the question Frankie had asked him earlier that night: “Why does your uncle live like that?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Park asked her if she wanted to call her uncle. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Kenny Halverson’s uncle said he didn’t like half the things he saw in the daylight and that there was a very good reason for being afraid of the dark. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Vincent finishes those drawings quickly, and when he gives them to Uncle Cor, his uncle likes them so much he commissions a second series of cityscapes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“So, what did you think of Adelaide’s uncle?” her mother asked. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

We had already filed for permanent residency through my uncle, but once my grandmother became a green card holder, we decided to see if another application would be a speedier option. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Enrique will have to trust the priest to find him if his aunt and uncle call back. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I began to wonder about what my uncle was doing at that moment. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They were always having to resist relatives who were more crowded—his uncle, with his endless brood of children, coaxing. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

My father and uncles don’t have hair on their faces. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry could see the conclusion forming in his uncle’s mind as though the great mustached face were transparent. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When Silly’s mother or uncle could drive her, she would come over for a couple of hours in the afternoons and help me with my homework. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

My uncles had told me stories about how famous my dad had been on campus for having simultaneously raised hell and aced all his classes. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He wondered what his aunt and uncle would do with them; burn them in the dead of night, probably, as if they were the evidence of some dreadful crime. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Alba watched them for a while, until she guessed that her uncle must be about to arrive, and then she walked through the garden to a halfruined gazebo. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The harvesters refused to call the uncles “khans.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I worried that I had created an unbridgeable divide by rejecting them and choosing my uncle, with his elegant home in the promised land of Saratoga. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They were going to Peshawar to stay with her uncle. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“My — my uncle Bilius saw one and — and he died twenty-four hours later!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Joseph wondered if it was the same necklace his uncle wore, which would mean the medallion was now over two hundred years old. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They stop to wave back at the row of relatives waving madly from the observation deck, little cousins propped up on uncles’ shoulders. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph was getting used to his uncle disappearing without a word. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Or he could follow Uncle Cent and other uncles into the art business. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Alba threw her arms around her uncle and gave him a kiss, but he kept his hands in his pockets and did not return the gesture. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not work for weeks until the bakery where the uncle worked had an opening, a part-time job making muffins. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Your uncle is going to be like this, always.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He shows no interest in the plate, instead turning away, briefly burying his face in his honorary uncle’s shoulder. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But why does your uncle need all these books? Is he some kind of squirrel nut?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Before my father went to prison, they played music together, my father on the piano, my uncle on the guitar. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

So my uncle started a bank account to help fund our gatherings and pay for air travel for those of us who no longer lived near the Bay Area. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

"My—I never even knew I had an uncle." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

My uncle started to answer, but held back. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle Henry always said, “A white man enjoys his success, a colored man has to pay for it.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to his uncle’s wife he said nothing, guarding his purpose from her. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

In the back of her mind she heard Adelaide’s uncle’s voice: Why? Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise gave her uncle a look which withered him not at all and marched into the church with as much dignity as she could muster. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Amu, “uncle” in Arabic, is Mom’s brother and the imam, or prayer leader, of the mosque here in town. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He recognized one of his uncle’s neighbors, a man who had grown up with Jack’s mother and his uncle. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fitela was as unlike his uncle as it is possible for two men to be. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the boss reaches his aunt and uncle, if they know his mother’s number, if his aunt or uncle will call him back . Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Your uncle tell you that you need to cultivate one-eighth of this claim? That’s forty acres.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“It took some time and cost a lot of money, your uncle told me.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

When she was done, her uncle remained silent for a long time, as Jiis horse negotiated the steep, rocky trail. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We were lucky to get our uncle back from there and luckier to have him almost back to his old self, although Uncle D had long ago stopped telling us make-believe stories. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

One weekend my uncle took me to meet his family. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then the smell struck him—something putrid, something so rotten that you would not even throw it into the pigpens back in his uncle’s village. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Karl says that with this heat, I wrote to my uncle, my grain will be ready to thresh in about two weeks. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Finally my uncle gently touched me on the wrist. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the story goes that the uncles had whispered with a clerk in the village and given him gold. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“The park is right across the street from my uncle’s motel,” said Andrew. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

My uncle cared only about his one son. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I assumed my friends also came with a tribe of outspoken aunts, uncles, and cousins they saw on a regular basis. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But now my brothers are asking, What'd you bring me, and my uncle is pulling gifts from his pockets, from his leather briefcase, from inside his socks. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I do not know. Mrs. Bennet and Lydia are going in the carriage to Meryton. And so, my dear sister, I find, from our uncle and aunt, that you have actually seen Pemberley.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I lasted two days at my uncle's house. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“But why then will they bring her to church?” my uncle Juan’s wife asked. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry thought he had rather impressed his uncle with this argument. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“But perhaps he may be a little whimsical in his civilities,” replied her uncle. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

His father was a minister, as were his uncles and many cousins. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I said I was a hawk for my uncle Darnell and the soldiers he slept in foxholes and trampled through jungles with. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

And years later, just before the accident, there had been a small electrical fire that took out the bookshelves where all the photo albums and my uncle’s record collection had been. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

My uncle was still in high school then. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Father Mike, her son-in-law and my very own uncle, was by this time back from his years in Greece and serving—in an assistant capacity—at Assumption Greek Orthodox Church. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We had lost cousins, aunts, uncles, and friends. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When I asked my uncle what the moral of the story was, he said, No moral. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

My great uncle started sawing it in 1882, and it just fell yesterday!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“We like the direction the case is going. Based on my conversations with your uncle, I think your parents might have had an inkling about which of you was out to get them,” said Caputo. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“But I’ll tell you this. I’m the baby’s uncle, and I don’t like it.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Me? Ah, you know me ... I always work. A little here, a little there. I still have my fish, but I’ve been helping your uncle more, too. And Barbara.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Like when she took an extra helping at the dinner table and her uncle would tease, “Putting on your winter coat there?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Those are some big ears he’s got, too,” observed his uncle Alfred. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure sits in the mouth of the wardrobe, the false back open, and listens to her uncle switch on the microphone and transmitter in the attic. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I had no idea how Lettie found out that my family worked root—probably that local girl who whispered in Lettie’s ear told her my uncle was a witch doctor. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

"Me," the Imp agreed, "although a more courteous greeting might be in order, for an uncle and an elder." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My uncle picked me up in his arms as soon as I got off the van and carried me onto the verandah. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In Mexico, orphaned when he was eight, my father left school to work as an ‘apprentice’ for an uncle. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle would tell me to go sit with him, and the old man would tell me that he liked me. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, her aunts have given her a list of names of uncles and aunts and cousins she might call on along her way. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I was asking my uncle but the sheriff said, “Naw. This is a manhunt. Sheriff business.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

"The murderer had to have a motive. How about this: A niece murders her rich uncle to inherit his money?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I just nodded at my uncle, who was now wiping tears from his own cheeks, and swallowed my pretend cupcake. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

And how would she explain herself, the uninvited guest, to her uncle and aunt? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Was it fair when you took my uncle’s truck?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I feel a rush of relief to see my uncle intact, no eyes or fingernails missing. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t mean your mom and dad family, but your uncle and aunt and cousin family? The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell her about the time you wished your uncle Dean would disappear and then he did,” she said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

When I met Sarah, now my wife, for the fourth or fifth time, I told her about the splintered minds of my cousin and two uncles. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The same type of cancer as my uncle. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She brought the food out, and my uncle and I ate together from the same plate with our hands. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As my uncle promised, he came to visit every weekend. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

"I hope he's your real uncle," Rani whispers. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“His parents are like, finally! Farooq finished memorizing the Qur’an two years ago, you know. We don’t get why your uncle took so long to ask him.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

My uncle told me which bus to get on, where to get off, and then what building to enter. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The next morning, with the dawn, there came her uncle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His uncle had taught him a bit of tumbling when he was six or seven. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hazel could not take it all in, the kitchen, the gleaming, the uncle in the apron. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Give this to your uncle for me. I don’t think he wants to talk to me.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She and some girl named Shayla might move to Fort Lauderdale if Shayla’s uncle could get them jobs in his Mexican restaurant. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Here’s the thing: Dad told me the other day that the last time he was here, when he was a teenager, his uncle had chickens and ducks and geese and even goats. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Joseph stared up into his uncle’s glittering green eyes. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“It was a cold night. I’ll never forget the smell of it, either. Like when my uncle used to cut up deer. Ask Francis. He remembers, too.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He imagined that a curse had been put on his uncle, condemning him to live in this house forever. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I went to school every day, my father and uncles and cousins still went to work, and my mother still went to the store. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her uncle looked down with a restrained fury, and she didn’t dare meet his eyes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle spoke as if he knew the witches who cursed Lucas. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without her, I tossed and turned until my uncle nudged me with his foot and said, “Get your belongings and follow me.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is said your uncle and his wife are eating. How else are they living and with strength enough to walk about—they, who, it is known, have never had anything?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She has aunts and uncles in Bastrop chopping cotton with the short hoe and pulling the long sack.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I thought my uncle had done that,” I tell him, even though none of us would have thought of it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

My uncle Sammie and his family have been very kind to me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I have a whole family full of uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces, grandmothers, and whatnot. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

My uncle coming to me and lifting me up into his arms. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

"There's no one can argue with that. You are of the blood, and all of your uncles are dead and gone. You will make a fine Lord of Stormhold." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Had my uncle meant to take them along? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, we tried to make you happy here,” my uncle said, sighing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also remembered another time, when I was at a cattle camp with my uncle and my mother and sister. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mi niña, don’t let me hear you say the word ‘stupid’ to your uncle Bill. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I’m willing to think that Harris doesn’t even realize why he doesn’t like my uncle, but he dislikes him enough to disinherit his eldest daughter.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It ended finally when my great uncle Phil saw bruises on my aunt Rebecca and finally got the truth out of my grandma. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“He must have cut a mean minuet,” she said, but called her uncle, who responded with alacrity. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Do you have a telephone number for this uncle?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Can you make itI Will your aunt and uncle let you come? Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Redemption broke the gaze with his uncle to look over at them. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

And in all those forefathers and fore- mothers, aunts, uncles, and cousins, there was nobody like me. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

My uncle was quiet for a long time. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I do not know why you should say so. He wishes exceedingly to come; but his uncle and aunt will not spare him.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

The thought of Benjen Stark saddened him; his uncle was still missing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The forfeited money upset her more than the murder of her uncle, if he was her uncle. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My brothers and uncles and cousins have armies," she told him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He’s clad in the loose robes of his people and looks more like a kindly old uncle than a Resistance operative. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

That my uncle wasn’t sick from war, but sick from drugs. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m no ranger, but... Hardhome is an unholy place, it’s said. Cursed. Even your uncle used to say as much, Lord Snow. Why would they go there?’ A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe he is kind, after all, my uncle. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Boyhood on uncles’ farms, in the Philippines for two years, then with drunk abusive parents back in Minnesota until I could run away to the army. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The mother made no comments to the media, but an uncle had spoken: Tariq was a good student and an upstanding citizen. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“A haunted house, an imaginary family, a crazy uncle . . . I bet this wasn’t what you bargained for when you ran away from school, was it?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Our uncle was always scavenging our refrigerator for leftovers that my mom would toss if she got to it first. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Even to the great doctor in Las Vegas we took him, to no avail,” my uncle said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"How are you going to get there? Have you called your uncle?" Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

They saw the images of devastation and desperation, and could not believe that their uncle was living amid all that. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

My uncle was in the city, playing music with some friends of his from college. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

My uncle dismounted and I did the same. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Andrew’s uncle pointed to a thirty-pound sack of birdseed sitting on the floor. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He didn’t feel like talking; he just wanted to find his uncle. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But it would have been better if she put her head down and helped the cook prepare the private meals for her uncles. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But my uncle keeps asking over and over again, What's wrong with you? Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I thought he did that to be the man of the house and stand up to the Klan—but my uncle opened the door wide and shook the sheriff’s hand. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I am sure that my uncles do not know of our whereabouts either. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fell into an exhausted sleep, and woke up to a house that was full of aunts and uncles, cousins and old friends, all eager to hear about his year. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Things that our uncle didn’t have the strength to care about when he made the deal with Henry, so they just went along with the truck. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Our uncle puts a spoon in front of him. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

What if my uncle had been in the back seat? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They’d sent me and Mitch to our uncle’s cabin out by Huron since there were whispers of danger and missing kids. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Again my uncle paused to stroke his mustache and again I nodded. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane crashed on the way, killing my uncle and seven passengers. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But compared to the way I felt about Aunt Loma, he was like a favorite uncle. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She gave it to my parents after my uncle, Carlos, moved her into his humongous house in the suburbs. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He remembered second aunt with her cactus collection, fifth uncle with his beard, eighth uncle with that opium addict, socialite wife. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her uncle’s neighborhood looks just like most others. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But that slowly changed as my uncle and I got to know each other and bonded in a way I hadn’t expected. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Growing up, Ifemelu did not feel like an only child because of the cousins, aunts, and uncles who lived with them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Two guards bookend the prisoners, the same as the transport yesterday: The older man with the craggy, deep-lined features who looks like my uncle is in front, and the young one follows the prisoners. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

"Come, we had better return to camp before your uncle calls the banners." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Jam and Pet stared as Redemption called his uncle, a grim light burning behind his eyes. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

An adopted extended family from the West Computing office stepped into the void left by the aunts and uncles and cousins in Farmville. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And she did her work alone and spoke no more than she could escape speaking with the wife of Wang Lung’s uncle, and she never spoke at all to Cuckoo. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“I will say, ‘My uncle is well, thank you.’ All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When Joseph turned back to the dining room, his uncle had vanished, like a magic trick. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Scorpions, perhaps; a jealous person had sent them to his uncle’s hut once, and his uncle woke up every day for weeks to find angry black scorpions crawling near his newborn twin sons. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You, she said. “I want you to go up to his office and tell your uncle that there has been an accident out in the street. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time she slumped over with her eyes closed they shook her awake and made her say “uncle” again. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“How can I tell, Hannah? He is good, and he’s fond of me. Besides,” Kit’s voice was pleading, “if I don’t marry him, how shall I ever escape from my uncle’s house?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“They closed the furrier’s and reassigned all the workers inside the camp. Your uncle was made leader of a group breaking rocks. When Goeth demanded to know how much work had been done...” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Albert covered his eyes with his hands, and Joseph could tell his uncle had shut himself off and wasn’t going to say anything else. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“When I was five, my uncle down the street was having trouble with his house, so my mom offered him ours,” Wayne tells me. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But then my uncle wasn’t calling my name. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

If an older uncle or male cousin tried to hug me, I got fidgety and nervous. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

That was where she would find her salvation, if her uncle had kept his part of their bargain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Women and sons and uncle, he forgot them all, and he rushed among the frightened villagers, and he shouted at them, “Now for our good land we will fight these enemies from the skies!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

"Twelve thousand foot, scattered around the castle in three separate camps, with the rivers between," her uncle said, with the craggy smile she remembered so well. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He heard that from his uncle who fought in Vietnam. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She had an uncle who was in Europe, at least she thought that was where he was. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

That night Alba went to see her uncle in his tunnel of books and proposed that they apply the same system to his father’s weapons as she had to her mother’s provisions. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dry cleaner’s run by his uncle who pretended to sneeze quarters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Among Navajos, some men may allow a little hair to grow on their upper lip—just as my uncle and my father did. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half a mile from my uncles’ fields the narrow wagon road turned into the road that crossed the bridge and led into town. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know that part of the world,” said Frank Crawley, “they say the country round is very fine. An uncle of mine used to live there.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The genial little man who met me at the door seemed more like an uncle than a professional man or, Lord knows, a revolutionary. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked for his uncle, but the room was empty. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

When the Merritts heard we were going to The Children’s Home, they said they wanted to stay involved in our lives in an honorary “aunt” and “uncle” role. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Park would enlist the help of his uncle in China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And to his uncle’s son he said, although the gorge rose in his throat, yet he said, “Here is a bit of silver, for young men will play.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“We were trying to protect your uncle. They were going to help us,” said Mother. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“No. After a while, I’ll convince myself that my aunt and uncle were right.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

As often as not I’d find her in an apron, hovering over a roast with a phone in each hand, one a client, the other an uncle or friend calling to offer condolences. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

That must have got Mami thinking about Papi because she started talking about the old days and how Papi and my uncles became involved in the underground movement against the dictator. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I thought about uncles coming to the rescue and mothers gone. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Kit looked from one to the other, from her aunt’s barely restrained tears to her uncle’s waiting judgment There is nothing I can possibly tell them, she thought, except the truth. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Her uncle ruled the Iron Islands now, and the Crow’s Eye would not care if she lived or died. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A neighbor had given us the table, and our uncle had given us the chairs. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Reed, my uncle’s wife. My uncle is dead, and he left me to her care.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

My cousin recognized the man’s name—it was his uncle! Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

María seems to melt into her uncle’s arms. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I don't have aunts and uncles and cousins. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The khan returns in the final moment to save his daughter from her uncles. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Her uncle’s voice was its usual low growl, or pitched high with helpless laughter. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Andrew?” called his uncle from the motel’s front office. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

"What is dead may never die," his uncle echoed, "but rises again, harder and stronger. Stand." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Most look young and all are thin and dark-skinned, like the peasant workers at our uncle’s farm, with greasy long hair flowing past their shoulders. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All Joseph knew about his uncle were a few overheard words from his mother through the years and the line in her address book: A. Nightingale, as if they were related to a bird. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes my uncle and I went for strolls after work. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He had pale white skin like my uncle, and hair that always fell into his eyes. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Daphne—our uncle’s sometime girlfriend—has a big house here that was left to her by her mother. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

My great uncle Phil was too old, and my dad left his hometown. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We shall deal with your uncle and his feigned boy in due time.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She had herself, Aunt Aggie, and her son Pat, who was my uncle and who was out selling newspapers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“So, mi sobrina wants her good old uncle to do the chaperoning. And you think your mother will agree to this?” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Y'know, my uncle just be looking out for Skunk's knucklehead self. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“He is well, he sends his love,” my uncle said and looked at Ultima. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, he was taking advantage of the people in his neighborhood—including my uncle—and he kinda-sorta pretended to be someone he wasn’t. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I had a Nintendo and uncles and tons of store-bought snacks. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I remembered the photo of her and her uncle in front of the science center. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

"There has been no reply from my uncle?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It is at these times that I realize he is indeed a professor, not an uncle. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only then did she remember that his uncle was a barber. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When Haupt's mother arrived, he hid in a bedroom while his uncle broke the news that her beloved son was back home. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I respond with the few polite phrases that my parents have taught me to say to uncles and aunties. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Recently married, his new uncle was a schoolteacher. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Santino Jerke’s uncle had been shot and killed in front of him by uniformed Sudanese government soldiers for stealing a chicken. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you girls should keep your uncle company while he drives.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Haupt was instructed to hand it over to his uncle for safekeeping. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

His father and his uncle had both disappeared following the same dream. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And she’d get my uncle’s belt and use it on me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Hello, Principal Marshall here. Is this Castle's uncle?" Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Not all of them shared her uncle’s opinions of seemly garb; some were as fashionably dressed as Kit herself. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Big Ma looked up at me and said, “Your uncle.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Her uncle sent a standard-bearer ahead of them, a double banner flying from his staff; the moon-and-falcon of House Arryn on high, and below it his own black fish. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

After a brief moment our uncle could see that something was wrong, and feeling unable to cope, he called Momma from the kitchen. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as my uncle reached the gate of the school, like all the other parents and relatives who had traveled far to bring their children there, he was told that he had to go. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her father is dead and all her brothers. Her mother perished at the Twins. Her uncles are lost or dead or captive.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My uncle Pedro loaded the bags on his truck while my mother ran around counting a hundred things that she was sure my father would forget to do while we were away. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our house was set to the right of my uncle’s house. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since I had no father to represent me, my uncle became the person that John’s family in Sudan had to negotiate with. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In African culture, the sons and daughters of one’s aunts or uncles are considered brothers and sisters, not cousins. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she asked him to lead them to her uncle, he said, "The Blackfish is gone west with the king, my lady. Martyn Rivers commands the outriders in his stead." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“My daddy’s uncle kept a lot of the colored Lackses as slaves,” Ruby said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He had a vague memory of his uncle bringing him pills earlier and helping him downstairs to the lavatory, which was hidden behind the panelling in the cellar. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Uncle Cent, who had no children of his own, who disappointed both of the brothers, who was disappointed in Vincent, but who was the uncle they had been most tied to. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And what was it about my innocent Luna blood that was to help lift the curse from my uncle? Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle had watched videos about kinky hair and bought products that were supposed to make it easy to comb through. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I glanced at my uncle, who knew I was staring at him. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

My uncle stands at the door, smiling, a bright orange shirt in his hand. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But the only thing she said when we got up from the table was “Listen to your uncle. And come home when you need to.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you remember that part of the deal was that you’d help heal my uncle?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I told him to just be there, my uncle said. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Kit dared not ask the question, but her uncle went on. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

My roommate’s uncle had graduated from the school years earlier and was now a successful business executive. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Aunts and uncles came up the alley trailed by girls in white patent-leather shoes and flouncy dresses, their hair rolled into finger curls. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

We stayed in my uncle’s house there for a few months because we had no house of our own anymore. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she opened them she saw her uncle sitting on the sofa contemplating her placidly. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

One guard punches one of the uncles who joined us in the line. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“I liked the story you were working on. With your uncle.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She looked at her uncle for permission to leave the room. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the mornings when he was around the house, his children treated him like a familiar relative, an uncle maybe, but not a father. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Sohrab’s uncle shook his head and led me back to the kitchen. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Even as a ten-year-old boy he understood how brave our uncle was to beg the new Khmer Rouge village chief to permit us to stay. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My uncle is a pilot. He flies big planes that drop bombs. Can you turn it on?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The other is of my aunt, my uncle Phillip, and my cousins when they were babies, standing in front of 8800 American Street. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He took the bowls from her hands at the kitchen door and he set them upon the table in the middle room and called loudly, “Eat, my uncle and my brothers.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She paused, then repeated proudly, “My uncle works in an office.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I would also like to apologize for the fright I think I gave you that night last year when you left your uncle’s house. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

That’s when I see the second cousins and great aunts and uncles whose names I barely recognize. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His uncle had left the horses tied up in front of the waterside inn. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Write, but do not look for a reply. Stannis will be dead before he gets your message. My uncle will see to that.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I explained to Billy as best I could some of the things that were going on, and he kept telling me his uncle was the pilot of a big plane that dropped bombs. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mister Brannon was her uncle and she could get free candy and drinks at his place any time she wanted to. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A gust of childish laughter drifted through the dpen doors behind him, and her uncle glanced darkly over his shoulder. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She lifted the three dolls and held them to my sick uncle’s mouth, and when he breathed on them they seemed to squirm in her hands. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father and uncle were different in other ways. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We’re all sitting in his uncle’s living room, splitting his Levain cookie; I give him my piece, even though I’m hungry. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Joseph couldn’t imagine anyone calling his uncle “Al,” but Albert Nightingale laughed again. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

One night in May, my uncle and I sat on the balcony of his apartment. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had high animal spirits, and a sort of natural self-consequence, which the attentions of the officers, to whom her uncle’s good dinners and her own easy manners recommended her, had increased into assurance. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“That can hardly be considered murder. It was an accident. If anything, it was your uncle’s fault.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Grace is correct. We need help. My family has tried to do this on our own for centuries. But now that Mrs. Malvolio and her uncle seem to know...” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

But for his son he would have no one like his uncle’s wife, who could not know anyone he considered fit for his eldest son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I have three uncles on my dad’s side and two memories between them. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I grew up near Kiev, but it’s been years since I’ve been back there. I lived with my uncle for some time, and we traveled a lot.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A dry cleaner’s run by his uncle who pretended to sneeze quarters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I welcome you today like a chief. Your feet may touch the ground when you lose your chieftaincy, which begins now,” my uncle said, laughing, as he set me down. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Why would he be my uncle, too? I had an uncle. My cousins’ father.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He's my favorite uncle, I say one afternoon. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

His uncle Euron was a different song, to be sure, but the Silence did not seem to be in port. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As the dedication ceremony continued at the Apollo, the master of ceremonies, activist-entertainer Harry Belafonte—yet another childhood “uncle”—framed the importance of this historic moment for the audience assembled. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s uncles around all the time at home. Some of them hit me and tell me to get out and some of them give me a nickel and tell me to get out.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wandering through the crowd so as to escape a drunken uncle of Ron’s who seemed unsure whether or not Harry was his son, Harry spotted an old wizard sitting alone at a table. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

My uncle was home when I was dropped off that evening. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

His uncle trusts him, even to make bank deposits. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to drop you off at your uncle’s house.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

With his suitcase tucked tightly under his arm, he ran up behind his uncle and tapped him on the shoulder. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When her uncle went down to Omaha, he said she didn't have to go. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

My father, uncle and three other men lifted it up the stairs, then had to remove the door to get it inside. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The wooden bed in the room held the shrunken body of my dying uncle Lucas. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"So what? Maybe he's your uncle. And see how scrawny he is? You have the same body type too. What more do you want?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Do I know why the world calls your uncle Pat Ab? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

His uncle pays as much attention to him as he does his own son, if not more. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“How can I, boy, when I don’t know nothing about this?” his uncle said sharply. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell your uncle that the hour has come. That the mermaids have bleached hair.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Enrique recognizes him from a video his uncle Carlos brought back from a visit. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

But he was worried that he might never get to touch them, now that her uncle had asked her to come and learn a trade in Kano. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

All my mother ever said was that Khosrou II had his uncles killed and he was the best-looking boy in the fifth grade. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But having all your uncles come over and scare a guy? A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Though my aunts and uncles tried to make it festive with loud music and a giant feast of tamales and roasted goat, Olga’s absence floated silently around us. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My uncle calls it the One Time—the way you can do something again and again and again, and then the One Time, something goes all kinds of wrong. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Joseph couldn’t imagine his uncle allowing anyone in the house, and he certainly couldn’t imagine a party there. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We had this immediate connection, and he was my uncle, my family. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

After our uncle told us about the Ainu, we painted mustaches on our faces every day for two weeks. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then he grinned like my old uncle, and he didn’t look hardened and long-faced like I had thought. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I liked my uncle Pedro because he was the easiest one to understand. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt a moment’s surprise when her uncle stepped forward to line the psalm. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung measured unwillingly into the skin of his uncle’s robe a small heap of beans and a precious handful of corn. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

And again it was because of his uncle’s son and his own eldest son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

One evening my brother and I were called into the front room where a conference of aunts and uncles was being held. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom looked away from me for a moment and stared over at War Chief, my uncle Will’s Indian pony, who was grinding his chunky yellow teeth. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My uncle had left some clothes at the house, and she took them out and sat with them for days. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And the whole thing was owned by Fern’s uncle, Mr. Homer L. Zuckerman. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I jumped over the gutter, sat against a tree, and, throughout the night, thought about my uncle and then my father, mother, brothers, friends. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As a result, she imagined that the pupils at her mother’s Thursday workshops were her uncles’ children. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auntie Sallay held my hand and made me sit on a bench next to my uncle. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Before my uncle died, he gave my mom a hundred dollars, which was a great deal of money at the time. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She was conscious of her uncle’s eyes upon her, and she moved her head to one side. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Only know the sound of my uncle's voice, stopping me before my name is a part of the history—like the ones on the roofs and fire escapes and subway cars. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m surrounded by boys in my life. My father. My uncle. Seriously, until a few weeks ago, I thought you were a boy. It’s nice to have some girl time.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The saffron fields—under her uncles’ control—were just a great big red river of blood. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Dr. Han sighed and walked over to Doha’s uncle and gently patted him on his shoulders. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

So had the rest of my aunts and uncles and cousins. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I expect you will want, to say your words before a heart tree, as your uncle did," Mormont said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

That little attic bursting with magenta and aquamarine and gold for five minutes, and then the radio switches off, and the gray rushes back in, and her uncle stumps back down the stairs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His uncle, who was among the first to be hungry, came importuning to his door, and indeed the man and his wife and his seven children had nothing to eat. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The very mention of his uncle caused Hamlet to leap to his feet “Claudius! I could send his soul to hell!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

We don’t know how to go about searching for either them or our uncles in Bat Deng. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your uncle Toni has been...in hiding,” she explains, choosing her words carefully. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Cabot’s uncle Jeff asked him after the graduation ceremony, as the family gathered in a restaurant near downtown Atlanta. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

My uncle Pedro had come to seek the help of Ultima and we all knew it, but there was a prescribed ceremony they had to go through. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The woman still wants to have the ceremony for herself, and there is a need for a man to participate, so I thought of your uncle. The clans work.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I showed these things to my uncle, but still he didn’t believe that I would be going on the trip. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was something she couldn’t back out of, either—her grandma and uncle were visiting and they were all having a special lunch. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you know your uncle, ey?” the man asked at the same moment she recognized him for Judah, Aunt Clarissa’s husband, whom she hadn’t seen since she was a small thing. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had asked his male cousin, the young son of his uncle, and his uncle for his father’s sake, and three neighboring farmers who lived in the village with him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

In the village where Jack’s sister, Jadzia, had lived with their aunt and uncle while caring for their baby, Jack was able to learn his sister’s fate from neighbors. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her uncle sat in his place among them, his lips tight, his eyebrows drawn fiercely together. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

It was a kindness that his uncle Kevan had two other sons; this one was unlikely to live out the year. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We tried to give our uncle breathing room but we hung on to him every minute of the day. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“He is perfectly well behaved, polite, and unassuming,” said her uncle. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The one thing my uncle never mastered was my hair. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Eugene was a good guy, and like an uncle to me, but he was drunk all the time. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t cuff you. He didn’t drag you in because he had an old beef with your uncle, which, really, is such a cowardly thing to do.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Not because she was cute, but because she danced with Boj angles, who was my friend, my uncle, my daddy, and who ought to have been soft-shoeing it and chuckling with me. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Nate was an orphan with just one living relative in the world: the uncle that Papa had always hated. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

I knew which pawnshops bought goods “from uncle” with no questions asked. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Leaping from his tree, the uncle rushed towards the lions, waving a long spear in his hand. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean you don’t know? Jean Louise, talk some sense and go phone your uncle.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Come to think of it, I have never visited anyone’s grave, not even my favorite uncle’s grave. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She pantomined an investigation, ripping off the paper envelope and trying to bite off the end like our uncles did their cigars. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

After my uncle died, I used the inheritance he left me to begin my hunt. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

If my uncle gave me the pony I’d take really good care of him, but he wouldn’t give him up. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He knew that any progress he might have made with his uncle, any trust he might have earned, had shattered along with the teacup. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“My uncle's guilt is now plain. The ghost is an honest one!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There are at least a dozen of them—parents and brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her Uncle, who wasn’t her uncle at all, had clouted her until she was almost deaf. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Rachel looked behind her and said, “Does your uncle drive a Ford Taurus too?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I loved the walks with my uncle, because they gave me a chance to talk about my childhood, about growing up with my father and older brother. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My mother and father have stoked each other’s indignation for almost forty years telling stories about land quarrels among the uncles, the inlaws, the grandparents. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Do you hear me? My uncle is not dead!" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She saw the last hundred years possess her uncle for an instant. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

His uncle tried to struggle out of the mud. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I knew then that I would have to tell my uncle about the trip. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Even though he was like a long-distance uncle to me, I’d never spent this much time with him. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The uncle who looked and smelled like an onion stood by the door, sweating. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“But I assure you they exist, Mr. Patel. My uncle—” “I believe what I see.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She could not trust her uncle, no more than she trusted this High Septon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A procession of uncles, aunts, and cousins followed as we made our way through the hall, parting a sea of applauding guests, blinking at flashing cameras. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was so sure of his own good breeding, he could laugh affectionately at the rich-quick vulgarities of the uncle who had adopted him and from whom he had inherited his fortune. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She referred softly to the fact that her uncles had long ago stolen the deed to the estate. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The last water we had was just the little bit that Alyssa’s uncle gave us early this morning. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And she wondered what Kelly’s uncle Bill would be like. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I watched my uncle, already knowing his tactics wouldn’t work. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s perfectly happy here, and your uncle will only do something horrid to it if we take it home.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

All the uncles were away at another village that day for a big meeting about land problems. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They climbed the highest hill above the village to the abandoned stone house where her uncle used to live. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She took the remaining remedy and made my uncle drink it. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arek said that Jack’s uncle Sigmund, his father’s younger brother, was alive and staying in a displaced persons’ camp near Munich. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Right,” says Alyssa, “and our uncle might be one of those people.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe this is where orphans go when they don’t have aunts and uncles?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I think Pa didn’t want me to be afraid of my uncle or his letters. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He had little shame over mooching off his uncle and even less about his useless college degree. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Gathering her skirts about her she hurried across the green, skirted the square in a wide arc, and fled home to her uncle’s house. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

My other uncles had tried everything to cure their youngest brother. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lost his uncle a few months back. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I described Dad’s symptoms, attributing them not to my father but to a fictive uncle. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The application with my uncle took fifteen years to be approved. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

So not because of his son and not because of his uncle’s son he dreamed that he could live in the House of Hwang, which was to him forever the great house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Delay, obscure, prevaricate. Oh, no one does that half so well as our brave uncle.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And that an uncle had been told by some man to go back to Africa. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d go out there, eager to take part in whatever his uncles were plotting. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got the feeling our uncle would be working more extra shifts now that we were here. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Not well. My uncle was born there. He’s a singer. His voice can charm wood.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Six years after my uncle's death, my grandfather died of cancer. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Joseph could not understand what his uncle was talking about. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It’s lucky, for Judith and her cousin to have an uncle who could help them get a place at the Schouwburg. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

If it was, it might be a good idea to go visit his uncle who lived on the coast. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

With great difficulty, Jack made his way to Munich and found his uncle. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He bombed Isfahan every night trying to kill people and my uncles fought him. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The room was bright and smelled like it had just been cleaned with the same oil soap my uncle used on our floors. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

His pallbearers—cousins, his dad, an uncle, friends I’d never seen—came and got him, and they all started walking toward the hearse. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t expect a visit from you quite so soon. What’s in those boxes, and where did you suddenly get an uncle from?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t tell you when it first happened, but my dad even slept at my uncle’s house one night. To get some ‘space,’ my mom said. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He called an uncle in Chicago who’d been in combat in World War II and asked if he could come for a visit. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

My uncle Pedro stood looking down at the ground for a long time. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lame songs about mountains and clouds and rainbows, my uncle said. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t ever imagine a life without my uncle, his laughing, his stories, the way he looks at the world. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I was left with my aunt and uncle, and we sat on the verandah. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes his uncle didn’t return until very late at night, and then one day, Uncle Claude didn’t come back at all. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The first things out of our uncle’s truck were our desks. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I have asked the question through my reading and writings, through the music of my youth, through arguments with your grandfather, with your mother, your aunt Janai, your uncle Ben. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She tied the sack securely and then came back to my uncle. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said it in memory of Uncle Moshe, and my mother and father, and my aunts and other uncles and cousins. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He shuts the door, shaking his head with a smile, and walks slowly into the kitchen where he finds his parents, aunt, and uncle all raising champagne glasses into the air. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Your uncle and grandma don’t know this story. I couldn’t tell them because it would hurt them so much.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She wagged her finger at me for having my light on, but she didn't seem to mind really, and she laughed a lot when my uncle shot himself dead several times with Yoyo's new revolver. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He had a sister, who had been sent to America with him at the same time to live with the uncle, who would graduate from normal school this year. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

His uncle turned the boat and shipped the oars and they drifted over the sandy shallows until the transom grated in the sand. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Who was that guy with your uncle?” he asks. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He was raised by an uncle who treated him like little more than a menial servant. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I enjoyed having my uncle, my father, my grandmother, and my sisters all to myself. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I have an idea. Help me find my dog, and I’ll help you find your uncle.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We walked slowly toward my uncle’s house, his arm around my shoulders. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I knew I wanted him to be my uncle. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She was embarrassed by my behavior, but she wasn’t going to do anything about it in front of her uncle. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Charles was especially close to his uncle Josiah, whom he found to be a good contrast to his father. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sand is so warm beneath me, and the ocean and salt spray and plum-colored breeze is so calming, that I tell him the story about my uncle. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Brandon took his namesake's, the sword made for the uncle he had never known. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I say, “But we were...just finishing up this...chore. Down here. Had a chore. For my uncle Drum.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

She fetched water, and strained a special gruel for Judith, and spread her uncle’s wet clothes to dry before the fire. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Your uncle axed that I get the enclosed to you when he passed. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Every autumn we made a pilgrimage to El Puerto where my grandfather and uncles lived. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced defiantly from his uncle to Wilse Graham, but nobody responded to him. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure where my dad and uncle are. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Our lawyer even called my uncle to tell him, but no one was able to reach my parents. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Joseph had laughed, but as a surprise for Blink, he’d snuck into his mother’s room during a visit home and copied down his uncle’s address, which he proudly handed over when he returned to school. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Would it be possible for me to visit my uncle who lives in the village across the river?” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I was sure Mother would have told every brother, cousin, aunt and uncle the story she had told Erin: that I was possessed, dangerous, taken by the devil. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“In that one there is hope,” I heard my uncle Juan say to my mother. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when Wang Lung stammered and blustered, not understanding, “Well—and what—well and what—” his uncle opened his coat and showed him what was against its lining. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I turned to look up at my uncle s kind face. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day two of them came together to audience,- the Greatjon's uncles, blustery men in the winter of their days with beards as white as the bearskin cloaks they wore. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her uncle’s terse petitions were hard enough to endure; this prayer, she knew, would be a lengthy masterpiece. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I stand frozen for a moment because this is the first time I’ve heard someone actually say these words—your uncle was killed. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

So I was given the same first name as that teacher’s dead uncle. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His uncle, Foncey, sold linoleum there for years and made enough money to start his own shop in Dublin, where he has his three sons selling linoleum. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Through the Dinka grapevine, I knew I had an uncle, my mother’s brother, in Kakuma, even though I had never met him. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father, a nervous type, was afraid to take him again, in case something were to happen, and left him with his aunt and uncle in Concord. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her uncle burst into the room, emphatically waving a pen. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Will let u know when I’m @ my uncle’s. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Her uncle had taken her on this trip as a favor, to nurture her budding talent. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had an uncle who was in Europe, at least she thought that was where he was. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“You’re still a little sullen,” the girl said, “but I will forgive you that if you will save me from my uncle.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"It's nice of this uncle to take you in," Amma says. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

"If the rangers must stay in sight of the Fist, I don't see how they can hope to find my uncle," Jon admitted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My uncle kept telling him, “Oh, she’s going to change her mind,” or else, “If you find her alone, just take her.” Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I went back, there was my uncle, rod in hand, but he didn’t strike — I told him, “There’s a boar in the forest.” Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

He held the ladle up to his uncle. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The story that everyone’s uncle wants to tell again and again. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He was holding the Lombard back and shouting, “You offer a usurious rate! Forty percent! Forty! My uncle offered thirty. Thirty is reasonable! Thirty is standard! But thirty is undercutting now?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He stares up at me and says to his father in Korean, What did uncle bring us? Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your uncle wants you to call him,” Nana says as she turns on the TV. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“When my uncle was twelve he went totally bald after getting too close to an African lighting bird nest during his tour.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Nathan listened closely, and that voice was no longer pestering his uncle. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I found him staring at me across from my uncle’s courtyard, hu-huing, “See, she cannot turn away. She is already mine.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle drove straight to my grandfather’s house. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to envision this uncle I never knew, with my eyes and no hair. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Getting to his feet, he advanced on his uncle, now pointing at the TV set himself. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I miss my uncle even though he is upstairs packing. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Great uncles were being resurrected from the family Bible and studied carefully. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo, who hadn’t slept all night, barely understood what his uncle was saying. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

But then his uncle’s wife was a foolish woman, fat and lazy, and forever clamoring for sweet food and for this sort of thing and that and for new shoes bought in the town. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember a life without my uncle in it. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

All my aunts and uncles talked it over as if they were choosing a prep-school for me and finally said, "Why--ye-es" with very grave, hesitant faces. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

We were listening to Joni Mitchell—a singer from way back before my uncle was a kid. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Like some jolly old dog of an uncle, he leaned across the table even further and began to tell me about his own girlfriend, whose name was Marion. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then I saw Papa talking with Rupesh Uncle and my other uncle, Raj. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They promptly took his advice, drove to city hall in San Jose, and "renewed their vows," with my uncle as their witness. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“What a prodigious idea,” Tamika said, this time wearing a real big grin, like the one she had in the picture with her uncle at the science center. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

My uncle Askar turned around and adjusted the rifle so that it rested on the shoulder of his seat, and still pointed out of his front window. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Our uncle has satellite radio,” Alyssa points out, and switches to the satellite stations. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He did not believe such tales himself, no more than his uncle had. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

From the day my uncle died, I believed that I would suffer a similar death, an untimely disease that would take me out. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most terrifying of all, the Station Inspector had written a note to Hugo’s uncle and attached it to the latest paycheck, asking for a face-to-face meeting. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

My uncles and cousins started arguing about it. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

In conversation he listened with an intensity that was almost alarming, as if Belknap were the most fascinating man in the world, not just an elderly uncle visiting from Big Foot Prairie. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I still remember my uncle taking a mouthful of water from a bucket, spitting it into his hands, and then washing his face with it,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

They detained him until my aunt and uncle bribed the police for his release. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m his half uncle, does that count for anything?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I returned my uncle Pedro was already there, helping to load our luggage. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only when her uncle closed the Book and bent his head for the long evening prayer, did the clicking needles cease. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“The bead librarian of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., is your uncle?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I imagine my uncle doing his smooth dance steps down the wide road, smiling as the music plays loud. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I nod and take a bite of my keema, remembering the time my uncle told me that the spicy minced meat was his favorite dish when he was a kid. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

"Here . . His dad walked over to the cookie jar and pulled out a bunch of twenties. "If this doesn't work, with her uncle, don't take Eleanor home. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I look at the bottle our uncle poured from. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She got a good grip on each kid and thrust them at her aunt and uncle one by one. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I was happy walking with my uncle, but I worried whether his family would accept me the way he had—without asking me anything about my war years. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But the British deserter did not show up in his blue smock and false hair to ride out of town with Rab’s uncle. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I love horses. I just don’t understand why your uncle Milton needs twenty-two paintings of them,” Dad says. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I let out a deep breath and felt my uncle glance over at me. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

As I drift off to sleep, I hear Meng announce that our next step is to return to Bat Deng to search for our aunts and uncles. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And thus it might have gone forever until all the silver was spent had not that one, Wang Lung’s uncle, returned suddenly without explanation of where he had been or what he had done. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“True. You are a gentleman’s daughter. But who was your mother? Who are your uncles and aunts? Do not imagine me ignorant of their condition.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Then the director invited us into a small room where he gave my uncle some papers to sign. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe little Ahmad, like his uncle and father and grandfather and countless Zeitouns before them, will feel the lure of the sea. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Did you ever see her in it, uncle?” asked Mrs. Joe. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

As they walked through the freezing streets of the city, his uncle explained about the fire and the locked door. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

My parents got scared, and although they didn’t send me to my aunt and uncle in a rich neighborhood, they sent me to a bougie private school. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Afterwards at Three Kings dinner with all the uncles and cute cousins, there was a funny little moment. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a job, Park traveled north to the border with his wife, where they illegally crossed into China and stayed with his uncle for eighteen months. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Nya s uncle, the chief of their village, knew of a medical clinic a few days’ walk away. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I was supposed to go to a few Celtics games, but now they’re giving the tickets to my uncle and cousins,” Trevor said. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid of your uncle,” said Roger through the open door. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I saw Ultima make some medicine for my uncle, and when she forced it down his throat and his face showed pain, my body too felt the pain. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle Paul is gay, and they’ve always been accepting of him and his partner, Simon. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

We talk about Sarah, easily and without competing, as if we are her aunt and uncle. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a good argument: Perhaps her uncle didn’t have the right to dispose of her after all. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the day before we moved, my father and uncle loaded the truck with boxes that my mother had packed. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Light Hair was glad to find Spotted Tail, his uncle, among them. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I do the laundry every morning. Then my uncle comes and picks me up on his way to work, and I hang around his office.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph found his uncle in an ancient kitchen, tossing a few pieces of charcoal into an iron stove. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He fidgets in the lap of his honorary uncle, who sits on a bedcover on the floor, surrounded by guests in front and behind and beside him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Igbo people marry all kinds of people. My cousin’s husband is Yoruba. My uncle’s wife is from Scotland.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After she asked my uncle to take her off speakerphone so she could tell him what she would've done if anything had happened to Maddy, and how dare he take all day to call her. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Some nice filthy-rich uncle or grandfather, just like in the stories Hornet reads to us," “Esther is rich," Prosper said. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The doors of our home were always open to uncles, aunts, cousins, friends, visitors. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When he’s within earshot, he yells, “Is that terrorist your uncle?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She had vowed she would never deceive her uncle again! The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Uncle,” I asked, “how long were we in the room with my uncle Lucas?” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For reasons he rarely revealed, he was separated at some point from his parents and taken in by his uncle, a stern and demanding man named Barlea, and a great-aunt, whom he simply called Grandma. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

His uncle had powerful eyes from the blinking. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

One evening her uncles appeared as she sat on a blanket pitting cherries and spreading them out to dry in the sun. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The last time we held hands was at my uncle’s funeral, as my father cried. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The men stood there smiling slightly, his uncle among them, unmoved. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

My uncle had two discrete eyebrows—not a single connecting hair between them—which was deeply reassuring, because I had always worried about growing a Persian Unibrow. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“My uncle is to send a servant for us.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Respect is the first thing a child learns in a Dinka family—respect for mother, father, aunts, uncles, other children, and animals. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two years ago our neighbor sent a letter with a coded message saying that my uncle was tortured and died in a gulag.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her uncle’s hands were so swollen, he couldn’t pick up his hoe, so Nhamo carried that as well. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her uncle gave a shake of the head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And I told her all about my uncle and how he made me laugh and how he always told me that my laugh reminded him of my mom. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then the uncles dug a hole and buried him in a place where there were thorn trees. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got to get out of that fear,” my uncle said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father’s brother, my uncle Katsuhisa, worked in a poultry hatchery in Georgia. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of older aunties and some uncles join the group. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

And I knew that my father’s father was dead and that my uncle Oscar was dead and that my uncle David was dead and that each of these instances was unnatural. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When her uncle appeared, Jean Louise thought styles may come and styles may go, but he and Atticus will cling to their vests forever. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

And then Max was talking, telling them he wasn’t doing anything, only looking for an uncle, who... The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“No — perhaps not, though there’s been talk. Kit, I know your uncle would be very angry about this. Promise me you won’t go there again.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone always brings their entire family, all their cousins and aunties and uncles, to the ceremony, no matter how many people you invite. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Knowing that we were frightened and baffled about our new “uncle,” my mother—I guess—urged Aunt Maggie to tell “uncle” to bribe us into silence and trust. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean lost. A mouse in a trap. He saw dead people passing through the walls. Terrible things in the corners of the streets. Now your great- uncle does not go outdoors.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Each day I sat on the verandah with my uncle and cousins looking toward the city. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When I called back, my uncle picked up. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

So he stumbled home to get my uncle to help him get my mom out of the car. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But our uncle, who had been wallowing in his misfortune for so long after losing his farm up north, isn’t wallowing anymore. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Of course. And you are widowed? You said you were. My condolences. And this uncle, this kaka, where does he live?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“His aunt and uncle will be able to explain everything to him when he’s older. I’ve written them a letter.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Lias hesitated and started to climb out, but his uncle wouldn’t let him. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z