Answer:
His uncle was only left. He was of no good. Carter Locke is the protagonist in the first Magic Misfits book. He is a member (and unofficial secretary) of the Magic Misfits magic club and specializes in sleight-of-hand and vanishing magic.
Step-by-step explanation:
Carter was born to magician Lyle Locke. However, after his parents died, he grew up on the streets with his no-good uncle. His sleight-of-hand tricks drew crowds of people, and along with his uncle's shell game, they would empty the pockets of the passers-by which Carter detested. His uncle was also shown to be abusive in the first book and fourth books, slamming Carter into the wall on the night of his escape, and picking Carter up by his collar in an ally when Carter refused to help scam people. It is also said that Carter flinched away from him when his Uncle greeted him on the front steps of the boarding house they were staying in, saying that his uncle’s silence was “scarier to Carter than wherever his uncle screamed at him,” and so on. One night, Carter ran away and hopped onto a freight train and ended up in the town of Mineral Wells, where unbeknownst to him lived his cousin, which he finds out at the end of the first book and with whom he moves in with. Carter's skills have shown to grow as he can now shoot cards like weapons. He and Leila have formed a bit of a sibling relationship, acting caring for each other. He alerts Leila of the Frown Clown hoax and assists with dealing with the stress of possibly having to move and finding out the real identity of her parents. He also tames Bosso's monkey (now named Change-O). Many of the things Carter experiences after he runs away from his “Uncle” are similar symptoms to PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) and it can be inferred that Carter may have some mental health issues and trauma after his experiences with missing or dead parents, an abusive guardian for years, and all that happened in the books, especially the last two.