Festergrimm (Legends of Eerie-On-Sea #4)

by Thomas Taylor (Author) Tom Booth (Illustrator)

Festergrimm (Legends of Eerie-On-Sea #4)
Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade

In the fourth tale in this beloved series, villainous Sebastian Eels returns to Eerie-on-Sea, thrusting Herbie and Violet into a new adventure involving a missing girl, a spooky wax museum, and a dangerous clockwork robot.

Herbie Lemon, Lost-and-Founder at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, and his fearless friend Violet Parma have unearthed many secrets in their village of Eerie-on-Sea: secrets lurking beneath the waves, lapping onto the beaches, and lying behind locked doors. When their brilliant and ruthless nemesis, Sebastian Eels, returns with a plan to open the long-shuttered waxworks museum, Herbie and Violet suspect nefarious motives. Their investigation leads them into the dark Netherways below the town--and into the tragic past of the famous toymaker and inventor Ludovic Festergrimm and his doomed daughter, Pandora. Sebastian Eels is convinced that within the story of Festergrimm is the key to Eerie's deepest secret--a secret in which Herbie himself plays a crucial part--and he'll stop at nothing to uncover it, including bringing a terrifying clockwork legend back to life. With echoes of fairy tales and monster movies, plus a dismembered finger or two, this is a deliciously creepy addition to a fantastical mystery series that is perfectly calibrated to thrill middle-grade readers.

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This November is "NOPE-vember," Herbie Lemon tells Violet Parma, meaning no risky adventures, but spoiler alert: Perilous mysteries are Eerie-on-Sea's stock in trade. . . . While series fans know what to expect, the plot's familiar contours deliver a few surprises along the way. . . the quirky art serves as witty counterpoint to Herbie's stoic narration while Eerie's Saint Dismal nicely embodies the English-seaside-in-the-off-season setting. . . . A cozy and atmospheric read.

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Thomas Taylor
Thomas Taylor is an award-winning author-illustrator for children. He illustrated the cover for the very first British edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and has since gone on to write and illustrate several picture books and young novels, most recently the graphic novel Scarlett Hart: Monster Hunter by Marcus Sedgwick. He lives on the south coast of England.

Art director by day and author-illustrator by night, Tom Booth is a maker of acclaimed children's books, including Don't Blink!, This Is Christmas, and Who Wins? He made his earliest marks -- sometimes on his parents' antique kitchen table -- growing up in Pennsylvania. Now living in Brooklyn, New York, he is currently at work on several children's books on a table all his own.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781536227420
Lexile Measure
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Guided Reading Level
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Publisher
Walker Books Us
Publication date
April 25, 2023
Series
Legends of Eerie-on-Sea
BISAC categories
JUV037000 - Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy & Magic
JUV028000 - Juvenile Fiction | Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories
JUV022000 - Juvenile Fiction | Legends, Myths, & Fables | General
JUV052000 - Juvenile Fiction | Monsters
Library of Congress categories
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