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The Beasts of Clawstone Castleby Eva Ibbotson , Kevin HawkesISBN 0142409316 (0-14-240931-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beasts of Clawstone Castle'Book summary:When their parents go to America for the summer, Madlyn and Rollo are sent to their great-aunt Emily and great-uncle George at Clawstone Castle, home of the legendary and mysterious Wild White Cattle of Clawstone Park. But times are hard at Clawstone, as the fancier castle down the road attracts all the tourist traffic. Determined to save the castle and the herd, Madlyn and Rollo audition a cast of ghosts to add some thrills to the Clawstone tours, and soon visitors are pouring through the gates. But just when things are looking up, the ghosts and children find themselves facing a great mystery, and some very sinister enemies. Will Madlyn, Rollo, and their ghostly friends find a way to save the day?[via]More editions of The Beasts of Clawstone Castle:
A Company of Swansby Eva IbbotsonISBN 0142409405 (0-14-240940-5)
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A Countess below Stairsby Eva IbbotsonISBN 0142408654 (0-14-240865-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Countess Below Stairs'Book summary:After the Russian Revolution turns her world topsy-turvy, Anna, a young Russian countess, has no choice but to flee to England. penniless, Anna hides her aristocratic background and takes a job as servant in the household of the esteemed Westerholme family, armed only with an outdated housekeeping manual and sheer determination. Desperate to keep her past a secret, Anna is nearly overwhelmed by her new duties?not to mention her instant attraction to Rupert, the handsome Earl of Westerholme. to make matters worse, Rupert appears to be falling for her as well. As their attraction grows stronger, Anna finds it more and more difficult to keep her most dearly held secrets from unraveling. And then there's the small matter of Rupert's beautiful and nasty fiancee. . . .[via]More editions of A Countess below Stairs:
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Dial-A-Ghostby Eva Ibbotson , Kevin HawkesISBN 0142500186 (0-14-250018-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dial-A-Ghost'Book summary:After spending most of his 10 years in a London orphanage, Oliver Smith is horrified to discover he is the sole master of a grand old mansion. Oliver is quite satisfied with his life just as it is, but he soon finds himself ensconced in a spooky, creaky tower bedroom in Helton Hall, under the care of his two cruelly calculating cousins, the Snodde-Brittles. Cousin Fulton and Cousin Frieda, next in line to inherit the family mansion if something should happen to Oliver, have offered to help him settle in to his new home. Of course, if the matron of the orphanage knew that this assistance involved renting bloodthirsty ghosts from the Dial-a-Ghost Agency in hopes of frightening the boy to death, she certainly wouldn't have allowed Oliver out of her sight. As it turns out, though, there's been a bit of a mix-up at Dial-a-Ghost. The gruesome specters intended for Helton Hall accidentally end up at a convent, while the gentle family of ghosts that wind up in Oliver's home suit him just fine, much to his evil cousins' dismay.
Eva Ibbotson has established herself as a true master of her genre with her extraordinary fantasy novels such as Which Witch? and Island of the Aunts. In Dial-a-Ghost, Ibbotson continues to excel in wit, whimsy, and wisdom. It's as if one's favorite crazy aunt has dropped by to tell the kind of convoluted and magical story children really want to hear. (Ages 8 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Dragonfly Poolby Eva IbbotsonISBN 0230704581 (0-230-70458-1)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan
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An Eva Ibbotson Gift Setby Eva IbbotsonISBN 0142302325 (0-14-230232-5)
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The Great Ghost Rescueby Eva Ibbotson , Kevin HawkesISBN 0142500879 (0-14-250087-9)
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Haunting of Granite Fallsby Eva Ibbotson , Kevin HawkesISBN 0142403717 (0-14-240371-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Haunting of Granite Falls'Book summary:[via]American millionaire Hiram C. Hopgood will stop at nothing to make his daughter, Helen, happyeven if it means buying her an ancient Scottish castle and shipping it back to Texas. Assembling the castle isnt a problem for the oil tycoon . . . its the ghosts that worry him. Hopgood has made up his mind: the ghouls have got to go. But these spirits dont spook so easily. Instead, they make their way to America, where they meet up with a magical severed hand and three fiendish, cross-dressing kidnappers for a Texassized adventure with a ghostly Scottish flair.
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Island of the Auntsby Eva Ibbotson , Kevin HawkesISBN 0142300497 (0-14-230049-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Island of the Aunts'Book summary:When the kindly old aunts decide that they need help caring for creatures who live on their hidden island, they know that adults can't be trusted. What they need are a few special children who can keep a secret-a secret as big as a magical island. And what better way to get children who can keep really big secrets, than to kidnap them! (After all, some children just plain need to be kidnapped.) Don't miss this wildly inventive and funny read from master storyteller Eva Ibbotson.[via]More editions of Island of the Aunts:
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Journey to the River Seaby Eva Ibbotson , Kevin HawkesISBN 0142501840 (0-14-250184-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Journey to the River Sea'Book summary:Sent in 1910 to live with distant relatives who own a rubber plantation along the Amazon River, English orphan Maia is excited. She believes she is in for brightly colored macaws, enormous butterflies, and "curtains of sweetly scented orchids trailing from the trees." Her British classmates warn her of man-eating alligators and wild, murderous Indians. Unfortunately, no one cautions Maia about her nasty, xenophobic cousins, who douse the house in bug spray and forbid her from venturing beyond their coiffed compound. Maia, however, is resourceful enough to find herself smack in the middle of more excitement than she ever imagined, from a mysterious "Indian" with an inheritance, to an itinerant actor dreading his impending adolescence, to a remarkable journey down the Amazon in search of the legendary giant sloth.
Eva Ibbotson, author of Dial-A- Ghost, Island of the Aunts, and other positively delightful and droll fantasies, won a Gold Award for this book in the 2001 Nestlé Smarties Book Prizes. Likable heroines, loathsome villains, and splendid adventures-along with Kevin Hawkes's appealing ink illustrations--make Ibbotson's novels a must for every bookshelf. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Madensky Squareby Eva IbbotsonISBN 0099226014 (0-09-922601-4)
Softcover, Random House
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Magic Flutesby Eva IbbotsonISBN 0099225913 (0-09-922591-3)
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The Morning Giftby Eva IbbotsonISBN 0142409111 (0-14-240911-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Morning Gift'Book summary:Twenty-year-old Ruth Berger is desperate. The daughter of a Jewish-Austrian professor, she was supposed to have escaped Vienna before the Nazis marched into the city. Yet the plan went completely wrong, and while her family and fiancé are waiting for her in safety, Ruth is stuck in Vienna with no way to escape. Then she encounters her fathers younger college professor, the dashing British paleontologist Quin Sommerville. Together, they strike a bargain: a marriage of convenience, to be annulled as soon as they return to safety. But dissolving the marriage proves to be more difficult than either of them thought—not the least because of the undeniable attraction Quin and Ruth share. To make matters worse, Ruth is enrolled in Quins university, in his very classes. Can their secret survive, or will circumstances destroy their love?[via] 
Not Just A Witchby Eva Ibbotson , Kevin HawkesISBN 014240232X (0-14-240232-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Secret Countessby Eva IbbotsonISBN 0230014860 (0-230-01486-0)
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The Secret of Platform 13by Eva Ibbotson , Sue PorterISBN 0141302860 (0-14-130286-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret of Platform 13'Book summary:Under Platform 13 at Kings Cross Station is hidden a quite remarkable secret. Every nine years a doorway opens to an amazing, fantastical island. Nine years ago, the island's baby prince was stolen on the streets of London. Now a rescue party, led by a wizard and an ogre, must find him and bring him back. But the kind prince has become a spoilt rich boy, who doesn't believe in magic and doesn't want to go home. Can they rescue him before time runs out -- and the doorway disappears for ever? 'This kind of fun will never fail to delight' Philip Pullman [via]
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A Song for Summerby Eva IbbotsonISBN 0142408662 (0-14-240866-2)
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The Star of Kazanby Eva Ibbotson , Kevin HawkesISBN 0142405825 (0-14-240582-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Star of Kazan'Book summary:[via]After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.
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Which Witchby Eva Ibbotson , Annabel LargeISBN 0141304278 (0-14-130427-8)
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Which Witch/Secret of Platformby Eva IbbotsonISBN 0000011169 (0-00-001116-9)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Which Witch/Secret of Platform'Book summary:Arriman the Awful, Loather of Light and Wizard of the North, needs a wife. How else can he have a wizard baby to carry on the family tradition of blighting and smiting, blasting and wuthering? The problem is, wizards can only marry one kind of person--a witch. Arriman dreads the thought. "A great black crone with warts and blisters in unmentionable places from crashing about on her broom! You want me to sit opposite one of those every morning eating my cornflakes?" But a witch it must be, so Arriman holds a contest to decide which witch. The local witches are all atwitter over what spell they'll perform for the contest--all except Belladonna, who is, to her great shame, a white witch. She looks rather like the girl on the Clairol Herbal Essence bottle, with a sweet face and flowing blonde hair. "There was usually something in Belladonna's hair: A fledgling blackbird parked there by its mother while she went to hunt for worms, a baby squirrel wanting somewhere safe to eat its hazel nuts, or a butterfly who thought she was a lily or a rose."
Black spells are cast, enchantments are woven, and even Belladonna manages to do a little damage in this wonderfully clever 1979 book by Eva Ibbotson (of The Secret of Platform 13). Young readers will delight in the way Ibbotson glories in the ghoulish and the gory--and in her engaging characters who are kindly and fiendish all at once. Which Witch (finally reissued in the United States) begs to be read aloud, with before-bed-length chapters and lots of opportunities for funny voices. (Ages 9 and older) --Claire Dederer [via]
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