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Wood,
Maryrose.
THE MYSTERIOUS HOWLING New York : Balzer & Bray, 2010 IL 3-6, RL 6.8 ISBN 0061791059 |
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When fifteen year old Miss Penelope Lumley accepts a position as governess to the children who live at Ashton Place, a fabulous estate, she has no idea what she is facing. She finds three children, two boys and a girl, who have been found living in the nearby woods, apparently raised by wolves. Alexander nips to keep his siblings in line; Cassiopeia has a bark that is worse than her bite; and Beowulf is quite proficient at chasing squirrels. Rescued by Lord Ashton who is determined to give them a home, and tame these wild creatures, Penelope comes to oversee their education and train them to be children, not wolves. However, someone on the estate doesn’t like the idea of these half-wild children being around. Penelope is making great strides in teaching them how to behave in society when, at the Christmas party where they are to be introduced, a mysterious someone sabotages their success and turns the guests against the children. Who could dislike them so much? After all, they are only poor, unfortunate, orphaned children. (Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards, 2011-2012) |
| SUBJECTS:
Governesses -- Fiction.
Feral children -- Fiction. Orphans -- Fiction. Balls (Parties) -- Fiction. Christmas -- Fiction. |
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