The Hidden Gallery (Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #2)

by Maryrose Wood (Author) Jon Klassen (Illustrator)

The Hidden Gallery (Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #2)
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. Illustrations.
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[A] madcap sequel. Great fun, and it wouldn't be optoomuchstic to expect more to come.

School Library Journal

Gr 3-6--The Incorrigibles, three feral children discovered and adopted by the ridiculously rich Lord Ashton, are back in another series of uproarious escapades. While Ashton Place is being repaired after the disastrous Christmas party at the conclusion of The Mysterious Howling (HarperCollins, 2010), Cassiopeia, Beowulf, and Alexander head for London, under the care of their unflappable 15-year-old governess, Miss Penelope Lumley. Mysterious happenings thwart Miss Lumley's plans for a proper and edifying tour of the city, including a fortune-teller who issues a strange warning to the children, a guidebook that leads them to a hidden gallery in the British Museum, and Lord Ashton's twitching behavior during a full moon. There is genuine humor in Penelope's unruffled attempts to educate and tame her charges, and fun in the wordplay and the use of delicious sounding archaic words. The characterization and plotting are true to an over-the-top parody of a Victorian melodrama as one outlandish adventure after another climaxes in a riotous spoof of a Gilbert & Sullivan Operetta gone bad. The narrator occasionally addresses readers directly with asides and explanations on topics such as holiday fatigue and the Heimlich maneuver, which seems oddly discordant in the distinctly Victorian-style narrative. And while a few new twists are introduced here, the fact that so little is resolved will leave readers wishing for just a bit more. Still, the endearing Incorrigibles and their indefatigable governess are engaging characters, and fans of the first book will be happy to go along for the madcap ride.--Caroline Ward, The Ferguson Library, Stamford, CT

Copyright 2011 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780061791123
Lexile Measure
960
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Balzer & Bray/Harperteen
Publication date
February 22, 2011
Series
Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV028000 - Juvenile Fiction | Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories
JUV013050 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Orphans & Foster Homes
Library of Congress categories
Orphans
London (England)
England
Blessing and cursing
Governesses
Feral children

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