Night Birds On Nantucket

Night Birds On Nantucket PDF Author: Joan Aiken
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409024687
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Shipwrecked Dido Twite, picked up by a whaling ship, finds herself many miles from home and facing deep troubles. Sinister Miss Slighcarp, the governess from Willoughby Chase, makes a reappearance, this time is cahoots with Hanoverian plotters who have a dastardly plan in mind.

Night Birds on Nantucket

Night Birds on Nantucket PDF Author: Joan Aiken
Publisher: Random House (UK)
ISBN: 9780099888901
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Although she is desperate to return to England, Dido Twite is caught in Nantucket where she and Penitence Casket have to stay with creepy Aunt Tribulation.

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase PDF Author: Joan Aiken
Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0553522205
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187

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Wicked wolves and a grim governess threaten Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia when Bonnie's parents leave Willoughby Chase for a sea voyage. Left in the care of the cruel Miss Slighcarp, the girls can hardly believe what is happening to their once happy home. The servants are dismissed, the furniture is sold, and Bonnie and Sylvia are sent to a prison-like orphan school. It seems as if the endless hours of drudgery will never cease. With the help of Simon the gooseboy and his flock, they escape. But how will they ever get Willoughby Chase free from the clutches of the evil Miss Slighcarp?

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Night Birds on Nantucket

Night Birds on Nantucket PDF Author: Joan Aiken
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Pages : 179

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The Stolen Lake

The Stolen Lake PDF Author: Joan Aiken
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547529899
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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In this fantasy adventure, a young girl visits a land where birds carry off men, fish eat human flesh, and she must rescue a pilfered lake. Readers who have followed Dido Twite’s escapades in Black Hearts in Battersea and Nightbirds on Nantucket will welcome her return in her wildest escapade yet. Now back in print, The Cuckoo Tree and The Stolen Lake continue the Wolves Chronicles, the exhilarating and imaginative series that stemmed from Joan Aiken’s classic The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. A dazzling piece of dramatic, snowballing adventure, The Stolen Lake is full of fantastical details: revolving palaces, witches who are also court dressmakers, an apocalyptic volcanic eruption, and an infernal country with a noticeable lack of female children. On her way back to London aboard the British man-of-war Thrush, twelve-year-old Dido Twite finds herself and the crew summoned to the aid of the tyrannical queen of New Cumbria. A neighboring king has stolen the queen’s lake and is holding it for ransom, and it’s up to Dido and the crew to face fire, flood, execution, and wild beasts to get the lake back—or else. Perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket and Roald Dahl “Aiken lures us into historical fantasy . . . our interest never slows.” —School Library Journal “The adventure Miss Aiken has dished up . . . in The Stolen Lake is zanier and more devilishly fiendish than ever.” —New York Times

Black Hearts in Battersea

Black Hearts in Battersea PDF Author: Joan Aiken
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547530714
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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In this hilarious classic adventure, an innocent boy and his friends must stop a plot to topple the King of England. Simon, the foundling from The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, arrives in London to meet an old friend and pursue the study of painting. Instead he finds himself unwittingly in the middle of a wicked crew’s fiendish caper to overthrow the good King James and the Duke and Duchess of Battersea. With the help of his friend Sophie and the resourceful waif Dido, Simon narrowly escapes a series of madcap close calls and dangerous run-ins. In a time and place where villains do nothing halfway, Simon is faced with wild wolves, poisoned pies, kidnapping, and a wrecked ship. This is a cleverly contrived tale of intrigue and misadventure. Perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket and Roald Dahl “It’s a marvel!” —The New Yorker “A wild yarn, not to be put down once it is started.” —Washington Post “A riot of wildly improbable adventures happening to absurd and loveable characters with Dickensian names in a time that never was . . . Heartrending, hair-raising, rib-tickling, and delightful.” —New York Times

The Witch of Clatteringshaws

The Witch of Clatteringshaws PDF Author: Joan Aiken
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0804150893
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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Dido Twite’s sharp wits are put to the test in this new adventure in the Wolves Chronicles. After King Richard dies, Dido’s good pal Simon is put on the English throne, but he hates being cooped up in drafty St. James Palace, and his crusty old advisors won’t let him have any fun at all. If only another descendent of the king could be found, Simon would gladly be replaced. Never short a solution, Dido discovers a lead to another member of the royal line. But no one knows exactly who—or where—the child is. The masterful storyteller Joan Aiken once again invites readers into a spellbinding world of magic, mystery, and mayhem—with a dose of “proper” English hilarity, of course.

Midwinter Nightingale

Midwinter Nightingale PDF Author: Joan Aiken
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 009944772X
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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A new Dido Twite adventure, tenth in the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series. 9 yrs+

The Cuckoo Tree

The Cuckoo Tree PDF Author: Joan Aiken
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606217217
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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When Dido Twite sets foot back on English soil, more mischief awaits. As her friend Captain Hughes recovers from a carriage accident, Dido stays at the Dogkennel Cottages and meets the odd inhabitants of Tegleaze Manor: strange old Lady Tegleaze, her nephew, Tobit, and his wizened, witchy nurse, Sannie. Soon suspicious things happen. A priceless miniature is stolen. Tobit is framed and then kidnapped. A twin sister is found. And when Dido catches a glimpse of her rascally father in Petworth, she is sure she's in the midst of another Hanoverian plot. Can she get to London to warn the king and save St. Paul's Cathedral from sliding into the Thames?

A Whisper in the Night

A Whisper in the Night PDF Author: Joan Aiken
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
ISBN: 9780440201854
Category : Horror stories.
Languages : en
Pages : 203

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Thirteen tales blending the commonplace and the bizarre focus on the encounters of young people with the supernatural.