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A house called Awful End: The Eddy Dickens Trilogy (Misc)

Series: Misc
Volume: 1
Genre: Other
ISBN: 0439537592
Pages: 119 pages
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Price: 5.99
Reader Rating: 7 out of 10
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A house called Awful End: The Eddy Dickens Trilogy by Philip Ardagh

Description: When both of Eddie's parents catch a disease that makes them turn yellow, go a bit crinkly around the edges, and smell of old hot-water bottles, it's agreed he should go away and stay with relatives at their house. Alax, the house is not the loveliest of places. In fact, it is named Awful End. And the relatives are Mad Uncle Jack and Even Madder Aunt Maud.
Along the way to Awful End, Eddie will be hypnotized byt a handkerchief, threatened by a bearded stranger, mistaken for a poor little orphan, and granted an audience with The Empress of All China (who isn't really the Empress of All China- but that's another story.)
You might not cry at everything Eddie Dickens has to go through.. but you will most certainly laugh.