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Owen Skye is skinny and quiet and has big ears. He does everything (just about) his older brother, Andy, says, while trying to stay one step ahead of little brother Leonard, who has now started school and is becoming smart at an alarming pace. The Skye brothers live in a small rural village with their parents and weird Uncle Lorne, an eccentric and painfully shy bachelor who sleeps on a cot in the basement, takes out his teeth at night and embodies Owen's worst fears about becoming a show more grownup. On his way home from hockey practice one evening, Owen catches a glimpse of a girl named Sylvia at her piano lesson, and he falls hopelessly in love. Thank goodness for life at home, where there are brothers to talk to and plot adventures with. Yet the Skye boys somehow have a knack for turning every innocent plan into a full-scale ordeal. show lessTags
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Owen Skye and his two brothers love to go on an adventure. Their adventures are always initiated by their crazy imaginations. From the Bog man to space ships and aliens, the Skye brothers are always busy with something. This book tells of their different adventures with ongoing stories of their socially awkward uncle who loves to live in the basement and Owen's love for his classmate Sylvia. Perfect for light reading for any middle school aged boys because of its humorous characters and short adventure plots.
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Alan Cumyn was born in Ottawa, and studied at Royal Roads Military College and Queen's University before earning an M.A. in Creative Writing and English Literature at the University of Windsor. He is a former English teacher and freelance writer. He has won the Ottawa-Carleton Book Award in 1999 and was a Torgi Award Finalist, as well as a show more Trillium Award Finalist in 1999. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Owen Skye
- Dedication
- For Gwen and Anna
- First words
- There was a brass jar on the mantle above the fireplace in the old falling-down farmhouse where Owen Skye lived with his family years ago.
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