The League of Beastly Dreadfuls is an odd book, the kind that delights in its oddness and gleefully rubs its oddness in the faces of its readers. Can Anastasia escape the asylum or will she become another victim? Review Then she discovers that her aunts collect the portraits of missing children.

Spirited away by her newly-discovered great-aunts Prim and Prudence to their home, a Victorian insane asylum, and forced to eat Mystery Lumps and live in a dirty bedroom with a chamber pot, Anastasia believes things cannot get much worse. Series: The League of Beastly Dreadfuls #1Īnastasia McCrumpet is living an ordinary life until the day she receives the news that her parents have died in a freak vacuum cleaner accident. sure to entertain.Goodreads: The League of Beastly Dreadfuls School Library JournalĪbundant humor.Charmingly offbeat. A solid debut reminiscent of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Publishers WeeklyĮnough mystery and humor to keep readers wondering what will happen next. Just the right mix of humor, magic, maliciousness, and suspense - BooklistĪnastasia is anything but average, and her adventures are just beginning. * 'A yummy debut.' - Kirkus Reviews, starred review It reminds me of Roald Dahl's The Twits only in an insane asylum.- Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Marvelously inventive and utterly demented, THE LEAGUE OF BEASTLY DREADFULS is nasty good fun from beginning to end - Bruce Coville, My Teacher is an Alien

So when she meets Ollie and Quentin, two mysterious brothers, the three join together to plot their great escape Anastasia soon begins to suspect that her aunties are not who they say they are. Agony's Asylum for the Criminally Insane.īut something strange is going on at the asylum. And UNTIL she's taken to their delightful and, er, 'authentic' Victorian home, St. UNTIL she's rescued by two long-lost great-aunties. That is, UNTIL her parents die in a tragic vacuum-cleaner accident. Join the League.Īnastasia is a completely average almost-eleven-year-old. A creepy Victorian house, secretive aunties, and a great escape combine in this debut that is part Mysterious Benedict Society, part Roald Dahl, and all quirky, smart, hilarious storytelling.

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