Best Selling Books by Maryrose Wood

Found running wild in the forest of Ashton Place, the Incorrigibles are no ordinary children: Alexander, age ten or thereabouts, keeps his siblings in line with gentle nips; Cassiopeia, perhaps four or five, has a bark that is (usually) worse than her bite; and Beowulf, age somewhere-in-the-middle, is alarmingly adept at chasing squirrels. Luckily, Miss Penelope Lumley is no ordinary governess. Only fifteen years old and a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, Penelope embraces the challenge of her new position. Though she is eager to instruct the children in Latin verbs and the proper use of globes, first she must help them overcome their canine tendencies. But mysteries abound at Ashton Place: Who are these three wild creatures, and how did they come to live in the vast forests of the estate? Why does Old Timothy, the coachman, lurk around every corner? Will Penelope be able to teach the Incorrigibles table manners and socially useful phrases in time for Lady Constance''s holiday ball? And what on earth is a schottische?

For fans of Lemony Snicket''s Series of Unfortunate Events and Trenton Lee Stewart''s Mysterious Benedict Society, here comes the final book in the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, the acclaimed and hilarious Victorian mystery series by Maryrose Wood. Unhappy Penelope Lumley is trapped in unhappy Plinkst! Even the beets for which Plinkst is inexplicably famous fail to grow in this utterly miserable Russian village. Penelope anxiously counts the days and wonders how she will ever get back to England in time to save all the Ashtons—who, she now knows, include herself and the Incorrigible children, although their precise location on the family tree is still a mystery—from their accursèd fate. Her daring scheme to escape sends her on a wildly unexpected journey. But time is running out, and the not-really-dead Edward Ashton is still on the loose. His mad obsession with the wolfish curse on the Ashtons puts Penelope and the Incorrigibles in dire peril. As Penelope fights her way back to her beloved pupils, the three brave Incorrigibles endure their gloomy new tutor and worriedly prepare for the arrival of Lady Constance’s baby. Little do they know the danger they’re in! In this action-packed conclusion to the acclaimed series, mysteries are solved and long-lost answers are found. Only one question remains: Will Penelope and the Incorrigibles find a way to undo the family curse in time, or will the next full moon be their last?

The incorrigible children of Ashton Place are especially naughty, but they can''t help it: They were raised by wolves. Now that they''ve been adopted by an English lord and lady, adjusting to a genteel life won''t be easy, even with a mysterious young governess to teach them about everything from French to forks. Perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket, The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place books have been named a Kirkus Best Book for Children, placed on the Kids'' Indie Next List, and chosen as Chicago Public Library Best of the Best. Together for the first time, this collection includes: The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book II: The Hidden Gallery The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book III: The Unseen Guest

For fans of Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events and Trenton Lee Stewart’s Mysterious Benedict Society comes the fourth book in the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, the acclaimed and hilarious Victorian mystery series by Maryrose Wood. In The Interrupted Tale, Miss Penelope Lumley receives an invitation to speak at the annual Celebrate Alumnae Knowledge Exposition (or CAKE) at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females. Optoomuchstic as ever, Penelope hopes to give her CAKE talk, see some old friends, and show off the Incorrigible children to Miss Mortimer, but instead she finds her beloved school in an uproar. And when Penelope is asked by the Swanburne Academy board of trustees to demonstrate the academic progress of her three wolfish students so the board can judge the true worth of a Swanburne education, the future of her alma mater—and of her job as governess to the Incorrigibles—hangs in the balance.

In Maryrose Wood''s stunning middle-grade novel, Alice''s Farm, a brave young rabbit must work with her natural predators to save her farmland home and secretly help the farm’s earnest but incompetent new owners. When a new family moves into Prune Street Farm, Alice and the other cottontails are cautious. The new owners are from the city; the family and their dog are not at all what the rabbits expect, and soon Alice is making new friends and doing things no rabbit has done before. When she overhears a plan by a developer to run the family off and bulldoze the farm, Alice comes up with a plan, helped by the farmer’s son, and other animals, including a majestic bald eagle. Here is a stunning celebration of life, the bitter and the sweet. Alice is some rabbit—a character readers will love for generations to come.

Since returning from London, the three Incorrigible children and their plucky governess, Miss Penelope Lumley, have been exceedingly busy. Despite their wolfish upbringing, the children have taken up bird watching, with no unfortunate consequences--yet. And a perplexing gift raises hard questions about how Penelope came to be left at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, and why her parents never bothered to return for her. But theirs are not the only families with mysteries to solve. When Lord Fredrick’s long-absent mother arrives with the noted explorer, Admiral Faucet, gruesome secrets tumble out of the Ashton family tree. And when the Admiral’s prized racing ostrich gets loose in the forest, it will take all the Incorrigibles’ skills to find her. The hunt for the runaway ostrich is on. But Penelope is worried. Once back in the wild, will the children forget about books and poetry, and go back to their howling, wolfish ways? What if they never want to come back to Ashton Place at all?

Being sent to your room is one thing. But being sent to another country? Morgan''s boyfriend dumped her on the last day of school-it seemed the only thing to do was to hack off her hair and dye the stubble orange. Unfortunately, Morgan''s parents freaked and decided a change of scenery would do her good. So they''re sending her off on a bike tour of Ireland. But Morgan gets more than she bargained for on the Emerald Isle-including a strange journey into some crazy, once upon a time corner of the past. There, she meets fairies, weefolk, and a hunky warrior-dude named Fergus, and figures out that she''s got some growing to do-and she doesn''t just mean her hair.

Third in the fabulous series that started with Why I Let My Hair Grow Out Senior year?s coming up fast and Morgan still has no clue about college, or a career?the whole rest of-her-life thing is basically a blank. Maybe it?s because she spent her junior year obsessing about Colin, the hot Irish guy she fell for last summer (that was right around the same time she discovered she?s a half- goddess from the days of Irish lore? you had to be there). She even saved Colin from a nasty enchantment, but he doesn?t know that. Colin doesn?t believe in magic, not even a little. But then a mysterious message reunites her with Colin, who turns out to be caught up in the biggest faery-made disaster ever. We?re talking the end of reality?not just reality TV. To save the world, she?s going to have to tell Colin the truth about her half-goddess mojo. But if he doesn?t believe in magic, how will he ever believe in her?

Maryrose Wood follows up her hilarious hit Why I Let My Hair Grow Out with another irreverent, teen angst-filled, girl-power romp. On a bike tour of Ireland last summer, Morgan Rawlinson fell for Colin, the hunky guide, and entered a portal that turned her into the goddess Morganne. Now she''s back to her painfully normal life and her relationship with Colin has fizzled to the occasional e-mail, until he writes saying he''s coming to Connecticut, just in time for the prom. But when he arrives, he''s exhausted. It seems that when Morgan crossed the portal as Morganne, a spell was cast on Colin. In his dreams he''s being forced to dance til dawn with the faeries, who want to boogie with him for eternity. Somehow she has to break the spell on her date, help plan the prom, and find the perfect dress. Oh, what a night?

Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a governess trained at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, takes the three Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place to London, England, and learns they are under a curse.

For fans of Odder and Skunk and Badger comes a heartwarming story of an unlikely friendship between a gull and a badger. Septimus is not good at being a badger. He adores the sunset. He dreams of going to Venice. And he lives alone in a charming cottage by the sea. He’s not unhappy with his tidy, solitary life, but there are times when being so bad at badgerdom makes him wonder if he’s even a badger at all. When a gull of very few words lands on the windowsill, Septimus leaps at the possibility of friendship. However, his new confidant soon goes missing and Septimus is bereft. Determined to find his best—and only—friend, he ventures into new territory and encounters a cast of surprising characters. Can Septimus be as brave and bighearted as he’ll need to be to find Gully? Or is he really a bad badger after all? Bad Badger is a young middle-grade novel about badgers, gulls, and learning that staying true to yourself means knowing who you are to begin with.

To best friends and devoted theater fans Emily and Philip, Aurora is no ordinary Broadway musical. Their love for the hit show (whose reclusive author has never been named) is nothing short of an obsession. Thanks to a secret loan from Emily’s grandma Rose, seeing the Saturday matinee has become a weekly ritual that makes real life seem dull and drab by comparison. But when the theater chat rooms start buzzing with crazy rumors that Aurora might close, Emily and Philip find themselves grappling with some truly show-stopping questions. What, exactly, is the “one sure thing” in show business? How will they pay back the money they owe Grandma Rose? And why hasn’t Philip asked Emily out on a real date? As they go to hilarious lengths to indulge their passion for Aurora, Emily and Philip must face the fact that all shows close sooner or later. But first they’ll put their friendship to the ultimate test, solve Broadway’s biggest mystery–and spend one unforgettable night at the theater.

Meet Felicia, 14-year-old student at the Manhattan Free Children’s School (also known as the Pound). In Felicia''s world, she and her best friends, Jess and Kat, like to refer to themselves as the Sex Kittens, and the boys they know as the Horn Dawgs. Felicia is getting tired of waiting for a Horn Dawg to notice her uniqueness, however. So she devises a project she and the object of her affection, Matthew the Science Brain, can work on together. Felicia is determined to discover the Secret of Love with Matthew while winning both Matthew’s heart and the science fair. But love has other plans. (Doesn’t it always?)

Fifteen-year-old Penelope Lumley is hired as governess to three young children who have been raised by wolves and must teach them to behave in a civilized manner.

Determined to break the wolfish curse that''s threatening her charges and their unborn baby sibling, Miss Penelope Lumley takes a seaside holiday in the hope of gaining answers from an aging mariner.

A dark, gothic tale of romance... and murder. Part of the grippingly dark series, The Poison Diaries.

In the right dose, everything is a poison. Even love . . . Jessamine Luxton has lived all her sixteen years in an isolated cottage near Alnwick Castle, with little company apart from the plants in her garden. Her father, Thomas, a feared and respected apothecary, has taught her much about the incredible powers of plants: that even the most innocent-looking weed can cure -- or kill. When Jessamine begins to fall in love with a mysterious boy who claims to communicate with plants, she is drawn into the dangerous world of the poison garden in a way she never could have imagined . . .

Despre micuții neastâmpărați, mai ales, se spune: „Trebuie să fi fost crescuți de lupi“. Copiii Incorigibili chiar fuseseră. Descoperiți în pădurea de pe domeniul Ashton Place, ei nu sunt niște copii obișnuiți. Din fericire, nici domnișoara Penelope Lumley nu este o guvernantă obișnuită. Proaspăt absolventă a Academiei Swanburne pentru Tinere Promițătoare de Origine Modestă, Penelope acceptă provocările noului post. Deși nerăbdătoare să le predea celor mici verbele în limba latină și să le arate felul în care să folosească corect globul pământesc, înainte de toate, trebuie să-i dezvețe de apucăturile lor canine. Ashton Place este însă un loc plin de mistere: Cine sunt aceste trei creaturi? De ce bătrânul Timothy, vizitiul, stă la pândă după fiecare colț? Va reuși oare Penelope să-i educe pe Incorigibili la timp pentru balul de Crăciun organizat de Lady Constance? Și, pentru numele lui Dumnezeu, ce e acela un schottische? Penelope nu este străină de mistere, din moment ce înseși originile ei sunt necunoscute. Dar, după cum spunea cândva Agatha Swanburne în persoană: „Totul se întâmplă cu un motiv, dar asta nu înseamnă că știm și care e acela – cel puțin, nu încă“.

Depuis leur retour de Londres, les trois Incorrigibles et leur courageuse gouvernante, mademoiselle Penelope Lumley, sont extrêmement occupés. Malgré l’éducation canine qu’ils ont reçue, tout-petits, les enfants s’adonnent maintenant à l’observation des oiseaux sans s’attirer d’ennuis... du moins, pas encore. Et un cadeau déconcertant soulève des questions difficiles quant aux raisons pour lesquelles Penelope a été laissée à l’Académie Swanburne pour filles pauvres mais intelligentes et sur ce qui expliquerait pourquoi ses parents ne se sont jamais donné la peine de revenir la chercher. Mais le mystère de sa famille n’est pas le seul à résoudre. Lorsque la mère de lord Fredrick revient le voir après une longue absence, accompagnée de l’illustre amiral Faucet, des secrets effroyables tombent de l’arbre généalogique des Ashton. Et lorsque la précieuse autruche de course de l’amiral se sauve dans la forêt, les Incorrigibles doivent déployer toutes leurs habiletés pour la traquer. La chasse pour l’autruche en fuite est commencée. Mais Penelope est inquiète. De retour dans la nature, les enfants oublieront-ils les livres et la poésie pour retrouver leurs comportements de loups qui hurlent à la lune? Et s’ils ne veulent plus jamais retourner au Domaine Ashton?

»Vor erotischer Spannung knisternd ...« THE TIMES Um 1800: Jessamine lebt mit ihrem Vater in einer verlassenen Kapelle im Norden Englands. Sie führen ein stilles, von Jahreszeiten geprägtes Leben. Jessamines Vater ist Botaniker, seine Leidenschaft sind Heil- und Giftpflanzen. In einem verborgenen Giftgarten züchtet er mächtige tödliche Gewächse, sorgsam darauf bedacht, seine Tochter von der Gefahr fernzuhalten. Als eines Tages Weed auftaucht, ein rätselhafter Fremder mit absinthgrünen Augen, verfällt Jessamine ihm sofort. Doch kaum haben die beiden zueinander gefunden, wird das Mädchen sterbenskrank. Was ist Weeds dunkles Geheimnis? Ist er ihre Rettung oder bringt er den Tod? Ein Roman, so geheimnisvoll wie die unergründliche Welt der Pflanzen. Denn ob Belladonna heilt oder tötet, darüber entscheidet am Ende die Liebe ...

The children and Penelope, their governess, leave London and return to Ashton Place, where Penelope decides to take matters into her own hands and do some investigating to find out the truth about the children, Lord Ashton, and herself.

Miss Penelope Lumley assuages the disappointments of her sixteenth birthday by accepting an invitation to speak at her former school, the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, which will be closed if she cannot prove the academic progress of her

Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, is hired as governess to three young children who have been raised by wolves and must teach them to behave in a civilized manner quickly, in preparation for a Christmas ball.

Unhappy Penelope Lumley is trapped in unhappy Plinkst! Even the beets for which Plinkst is inexplicably famous fail to grow in this utterly miserable Russian village. Penelope anxiously counts the days and wonders how she will ever get back to England in time to save all the Ashtons--who, she now knows, include herself and the Incorrigible children, although their precise location on the family tree is still a mystery--from their accursèd fate. Her daring scheme to escape sends her on a wildly unexpected journey. But time is running out, and the not-really-dead Edward Ashton is still on the loose. His mad obsession with the wolfish curse on the Ashtons puts Penelope and the Incorrigibles in dire peril. As Penelope fights her way back to her beloved pupils, the three brave Incorrigibles endure their gloomy new tutor and worriedly prepare for the arrival of Lady Constance''s baby. Little do they know the danger they''re in! In this action-packed conclusion to the acclaimed series, mysteries are solved and long-lost answers are found. Only one question remains: Will Penelope and the Incorrigibles find a way to undo the family curse in time, or will the next full moon be their last?

Fraîchement diplômée de l''Académie Swanburne, une école pour les filles pauvres, mais intelligentes, Penelope, orpheline de quinze ans, quitte Londres pour se rendre au Domaine Ashton où elle a été engagée comme gouvernante. Là-bas, on lui confie l''éducation de trois enfants trouvés sur le domaine. Ces derniers, élevés par les loups, sont sales, indisciplinés et sans manière. En vue du bal de Noël que Lady Constance organise, Penelope a quelques semaines pour faire d''eux des êtres civilisés sous peine de les voir partir pour l''orphelinat. Au fil des jours et des événements, l''adolescente se questionne sur l''identité réelle de ses protégés et tente de percer le mystère entourant le comportement bizarre de son nouvel entourage à leur sujet. Des remarques inusitées lui font bientôt craindre le pire pour leur avenir... [SDM].

«On dit parfois des enfants très vilains qu''ils doivent avoir été élevés par des loups. C''était le cas des Incorrigibles enfants.» Au Domaine Ashton, les Incorrigibles enfants n''ont rien d''ordinaire : l''un hurle comme un loup, l''autre mord, le troisième chasse les écureuils. Heureusement mademoiselle Penelope Lumley, jeune gouvernante, accepte avec enthousiasme le défi que lui promet son nouveau poste. Penelope sera-t-elle capable de civiliser les Incorrigibles à temps pour le bal de Noël de Lady Constance ?

Diplômée de l''Académie Swanburne, une école pour les filles pauvres, mais intelligentes, Penelope, orpheline de quinze ans, est engagée au Domaine Ashton pour veiller à l''éducation des Incorrigibles, trois enfants qui ont été trouvés sur le domaine. Ces derniers, élevés par les loups, sont sales, indisciplinés et sans manière. Dans ce deuxième tome, le mystère s''épaissit autour des Incorrigibles. L''ancienne enseignante de Penelope la prévient même du danger qui guette les enfants. Cet avertissement fait échos aux énigmatiques paroles d''une voyante qui a dit que la chasse était commencée... [SDM].

Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a governess trained at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, takes the three Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place to London, England, and learns they are under a curse.