No way summer can end like this! These young people are powerful, courageous, experienced adventurers molded through their heroic commitment to discipline and deduction.
They’ve already got two keys to the city, but the rival Epic Ellisons-twin sisters Wiki and Leen-are steadily gaining celebrity across Logan County, Virginia, and have in hand their third key to the city. These two black boys are coming to terms with the end of their brave, heroic summer at Grandma’s, with a return to school just right around the corner. 10-12)Ĭan this really be the first time readers meet the Legendary Alston Boys of Logan County? Cousins and veteran sleuths Otto and Sheed Alston show us that we are the ones who are late to their greatness. Larded with stock comical characters and illustrated with Collins’s gangly, Beardsley-esque line drawings, the story will slip down like the bonbon it is. Lady Lamorna even gets her gown, in the end. Thanks to his efforts Gracie hooks up with Marcus, a scruffy prince missed in the general amphibious transformation, to rescue the other princes and to trick Foyce into entering a magical sort of rehabilitation program. Enter Marlon, a bat who addresses young folk as “kiddo” and is forever flitting off with a “ Ciao!” to deliver messages or orchestrate some dodgy deal. She gets help on the way from the considerably more clever Foyce Undershaft, a young lady of stunning beauty and “a heart as hard as a frying pan,” who is also the evil stepsister of kindly Gracie Gillypot. Conceiving a burning desire for a new gown-black velvet, decorated with poison ivy, spider webs and skulls-wicked Lady Lamorna decides to pay for it by turning all the local princes into frogs and extracting ransoms from their royal parents.
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