New Releases by Barbara Brooks Wallace

Barbara Brooks Wallace is the author of Peppermints in the Parlor (2011), Miss Switch Online (2008), Argyle (2007), Julia and the Third Bad Thing (2005), The Barrel in the Basement (2005).

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Peppermints in the Parlor

release date: Nov 15, 2011
Peppermints in the Parlor
Emily Luccock is looking forward to living at Sugar Hill Hall....She remembers her aunt and uncle''s grand old mansion well, with its enormous, elegant parlor, marble fireplace, and white china cups filled with hot chocolate. But this time things are different. Her aunt''s once bright and lively home is now dead with silence. Evil lurks in every corner, and the dark, shadowed walls watch and whisper late at night. And no one ever speaks. Everything''s changed at Sugar Hill Hall, and Emily knows something awful is happening there. What''s become of Uncle Twice? Why is Aunt Twice a prisoner in her own home? Emily is desperate to uncover the truth. Time is running out, and she must find a way to save the people and home she cares so much about.

Miss Switch Online

release date: Jun 30, 2008
Miss Switch Online
If you think nothing much is going on when Rupert P. Brown III begins sixth grade at Pepperdine Elementary School, you''d be dead wrong. Consider the following: a new teacher with the unlikely name of Miss Blossom; a new principal who has all the girls swooning; a talking bird who thinks he''s a math whiz; a computer that goes berserk and produces a Web site called computowitch.com that not only displays some very ominous poetry, but whose password is the name of a witch Rupert has tangled with in the past. Yes, a witch! Faster than you can say "witchcraft and wizardry," Rupert figures he could be in big trouble. He can really use the help of Miss Switch, a real, honest-to-goodness witch herself, who also, amazingly, was once a former popular teacher of Rupert''s class at Pepperdine. He has reason to believe she''s back, but where? Once again, Rupert records another scary (well, sort of) and funny encounter with Miss Switch. His earlier accounts, equally scary and funny, appear in the books The Trouble with Miss Switch and Miss Switch to the Rescue.

Argyle

release date: Nov 22, 2007
Argyle
This enchanting story of a sheep that grows multicolored wool has "the brevity, simple style, and layered meanings of the classic fables. . . . All told, a natural for reading aloud".--School Library Journal. Full color.

Julia and the Third Bad Thing

release date: Mar 01, 2005
Julia and the Third Bad Thing
"Bad things always happen in threes!" If a very old person like Grandmama says it, is it not true? This is the very normal, understandable worry eight-year-old Julia has when she has knocked a burning hot iron into her little sister''s hand. The first bad thing! And surely two more must follow, if Grandmama says so. What will they be? When will they happen? This is an enormous worry, indeed! Although this gentle story about a family with three little girls takes place in Russia at the turn of the twentieth century, it has universal appeal, as both family life, and eight-year-old Julia''s fears and concerns are all so true and believable. Perhaps this is because they are true, inspired by the real-life experiences of the author''s mother.

The Barrel in the Basement

release date: Mar 01, 2005
The Barrel in the Basement
Pudding, the youngest of three Furkins, or elves, living in a barrel in the basement of a human named Noah, proves that a shy Furkin is capable of great deeds like the heroes of the past.

Secret in St. Something

release date: Feb 01, 2003
Secret in St. Something
Fleeing from a cruel step-father, eleven-year-old Robin takes his baby brother and finds shelter with street boys living in a church in a tenement area of New York City.

The Perils of Peppermints

release date: Jan 01, 2003
The Perils of Peppermints
The long-awaited sequel to Wallace''s popular Victorian thriller "Peppermints in the Parlor" finds plucky Emily Luccock facing boarding school, a villainous headmistress, and the temptation of peppermints.

Miss Switch to the Rescue

release date: Jan 01, 2002
Miss Switch to the Rescue
When Rupert''s friend Amelia is kidnapped by Mordo the warlock, Miss Switch the witch returns in the guise of a substitute teacher to help him rescue her.

The Trouble with Miss Switch

release date: Jan 01, 2002
The Trouble with Miss Switch
A scientifically-minded fifth grader finds himself in a frightening predicament when he proves that his teacher is a witch.

Ghosts in the Gallery

release date: Jan 01, 2001
Ghosts in the Gallery
In the same dramatic and exciting style of her other Victorian mysteries, Wallace tells the story of 11-year-old Jenny, who arrives from China at her grandfather''s Graymark House. No one recognizes her, so, taking the job of a maid, Jenny must figure out what is going on within the dark hallways. A 2001 Edgar Award nominee.

Andrew the Big Deal

release date: Jan 01, 2000
Andrew the Big Deal
After the Air Force transfers his dad from California to Virginia and his mom gets sick, Andy, the intellectual misfit in an athletic family, is forced by a series of disasters to really use his intelligence.

Sparrows in the Scullery

release date: Jan 01, 1999
Sparrows in the Scullery
Colin Trevelyan, newly orphaned heir to his parents'' fortune, is kidnapped in the night from his ancestral home and taken to the grim Broggin Home for Boys, where he is underfed, overworked, and destined for a short life in a deadly glass factory. This story "immediately hooks readers, who will gobble up this satisfying fare," says "School Library Journal," "Fully realized Victorian melodrama that would make Dickens proud," says "The Bulletin of the Center for Children''s Books," A "Junior Literary Guild" selection and winner of the "Mystery Writers of America" EDGAR Award.

Cousins in the Castle

release date: Jan 01, 1996
Cousins in the Castle
A new friend comes to Amelia''s rescue when she finds herself the victim of a dastardly villain''s fiendish plans.

The Twin in the Tavern

release date: Jan 01, 1993
The Twin in the Tavern
Discovered by thieves looting his uncle''s house, orphaned Taddy has no choice but to accept their offer of a warm place to sleep and good meals in return for keeping his mouth shut about the robbery. But Taddy soon discovers that he is nothing more than a prisoner, and he must take steps to free himself.

The Contest Kid Strikes Again

release date: Aug 01, 1987
The Contest Kid Strikes Again
Harvey''s love of anything free continues to lead him into countless escapades and dilemmas.

Hello, Claudia!

Hello, Claudia!
Looking in her fourth grade class for a girl to be her best friend, Claudia is surprised when her new companion turns out to be a boy two years younger.

Hawkins and the Soccer Solution

Hawkins and the Soccer Solution
Harvey Small and his friends solve the problems of their losing soccer team with special assistance from Hawkins, the "gentleman''s gentleman."

The Secret Summer of L. E. B.

The Secret Summer of L. E. B.
Lizabeth risks her popularity with the other sixth graders by becoming friends with the class outcast.
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