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1. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (The Wolves Chronicles)
2. Black Hearts in Battersea
3. Nightbirds on Nantucket
4. Necklace of Raindrops: and Other Stories
5. Arabel's Raven (Arabel and Mortimer)
6. The Cuckoo Tree
7. The Stolen Lake
8. Mooncusser's Daughter
9. Midnight is a Place
10. Arabel and Mortimer
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The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (The Wolves Chronicles)
Authors: Joan Aiken. Pat Marriott. Paperback, 168 pagesPublisher: Yearling Publication Date: 1987-11-01 Edition: Reprint Reviews :
Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia are left in the care of a cruel governess when Bonnie's parents go on a sea voyage. Besieged by wolves without and the terrible Miss Slighcarp within, how are they to reclaim Willoughby Chase?....
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Black Hearts in Battersea
Authors: Joan Aiken. Paperback, 240 pagesPublisher: Sandpiper Publication Date: 1999-10-25 Edition: 1 Reviews :
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....
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Nightbirds on Nantucket
Authors: Joan Aiken. Paperback, 224 pagesPublisher: Sandpiper Publication Date: 1999-10-25 Edition: 1 Reviews :
Having had enough of life on board the ship that saved her from a watery grave, Dido Twite wants nothing more than to sail home to England. Instead, Captain Casket's ship lands in Nantucket, where Dido and the captain's daughter, Dutiful Penitence, are left in the care of Dutiful's sinister Aunt Tribulation. In Tribulation's farmhouse, life is unbearable. When mysterious men lurk about in the evening fog, the resourceful Dido rallies against their shenanigans with help from Dutiful, a cabinboy named Nate, and a pink whale....
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Necklace of Raindrops: and Other Stories
Authors: Joan Aiken. Paperback, 96 pagesPublisher: Yearling Publication Date: 2003-06-10 Reviews :
Here are eight gloriously imaginative stories for eight satisfying sessions of bedtime reading. There’s a flying apple pie, a cat that’s bigger than an elephant, a house that lays an egg, storybook animals that leap out of their books at night, and a wealth of other wonderful characters and ideas, all with the colorful, dreamlike quality of the very best fairy tales. Joan Aiken’s delicious prose is a joy to read aloud to very young listeners yet simple enough for the independent reader to savor on his or her own. Kevin Hawkes’s illustrations–nearly 60 of them–capture with great flair and fun the magical adventures and the triumph of the good over the bad. ...
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Arabel's Raven (Arabel and Mortimer)
Authors: Joan Aiken. Paperback, 160 pagesPublisher: Odyssey Classics Publication Date: 2007-09-01 Reviews :
Young Arabel's life is changed forever when her father, a taxi driver, brings home an injured bird he finds in the street. This wacky raven eats everything in sight, answers the telephone by squawking "Nevermore!" and causes chaos wherever he goes--but Arabel loves her new feathered friend, whom she names Mortimer. This is the first volume of Arabel and Mortimer's adventures, brightened with hilarious illustrations by Quentin Blake. ...
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The Cuckoo Tree
Authors: Joan Aiken. Paperback, 297 pagesPublisher: Sandpiper Publication Date: 2000-09-25 Edition: 1 Reviews :
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?...
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The Stolen Lake
Authors: Joan Aiken. Paperback, 321 pagesPublisher: Sandpiper Publication Date: 2000-09-25 Edition: 1 Reviews :
Readers who have followed Dido Twite"s escapades in BLACK HEARTS IN BATTERSEA and NIGHTBIRDS ON NANTUCKET will welcome her return in her wildest adventure 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....
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Mooncusser's Daughter
Authors: Joan Aiken. Hardcover, 95 pagesPublisher: Viking Juvenile Publication Date: 1974-01-21 Reviews :
The mooncusser's daughter thwarts the criminals who seek the treasure hidden in a wreck under her father's lighthouse....
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Midnight is a Place
Authors: Joan Aiken. Paperback, 304 pagesPublisher: Sandpiper Publication Date: 2002-10-28 Reviews :
Now, back in print, the engaging and suspenseful British fantasy by one of England"s most imaginative storytellers. Lucas Bell is lonely and miserable at Midnight Court, a vast, brooding house owned by his intolerable guardian, Sir Randolph Grimsby. When a mysterious carriage brings a visitor to the house, Lucas hopes he"s found a friend at last. But the newcomer, Anna Marie, is unfriendly and spoiled—and French. Just when Lucas thinks things can"t get any worse, disastrous circumstances force him and Anna Marie, parentless and penniless, into the dark and unfriendly streets of Blastburn....
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Arabel and Mortimer
Authors: Joan Aiken. Paperback, 192 pagesPublisher: Odyssey Classics Publication Date: 2007-09-01 Reviews :
In this silly sequel to Arabel's Raven, Mortimer floats out to sea on a grand piano, tries to get even with three giraffes that have stolen his doughnuts at the zoo, and takes off with King Arthur's sword. Will Arabel ever be able to control her troublemaking pet raven? ...
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