Middle grade novels
For readers ages 8+, by Allison Rushby
Miss Penny Dreadful and the Midnight Kittens
Forever in trouble for sketching in her notebook, Penny Pickering dreams of her famous authoress aunt turning up at her boarding school and whisking her away. So when Aunt Harriet appears at Miss Strickland’s School for Girls of an Enquiring Mind and asks Penny if she would like to join her on an adventure, Penny knows exactly what to say – yes, please! Penny soon finds herself headed for Hampshire and a strange place called Mr Toddington’s Museum of the Curious and Absurd where bewitched kittens are said to have a tea party at midnight.
Available from Riverbend Books, Where the Wild Things Are, Booktopia, Dymocks, Angus & Robertson.
Miss Penny Dreadful and the Malicious Maze
From the moment Penny steps into her family’s Hyde Park Square townhouse, she can sense something dreadful has happened.
This is confirmed when she discovers her parents’ laboratory in terrible disarray. Before she can find out any more, Penny is whisked away with her authoress aunt to Harewood Hall in the countryside, where a malicious maze is rumoured to be gobbling up servants. Miss Penny Dreadful has yet another mystery to solve. And nothing, absolutely nothing, is as it seems!
Available from Riverbend Books, Where the Wild Things Are, Booktopia, Dymocks, Angus & Robertson.
Miss Penny Dreadful and the Mermaid’s locks
From the moment Penny steps into her family’s Hyde Park Square townhouse, she can sense something dreadful has happened.
This is confirmed when she discovers her parents’ laboratory in terrible disarray. Before she can find out any more, Penny is whisked away with her authoress aunt to Harewood Hall in the countryside, where a malicious maze is rumoured to be gobbling up servants. Miss Penny Dreadful has yet another mystery to solve. And nothing, absolutely nothing, is as it seems!
Available from Riverbend Books, Booktopia, Dymocks, Angus & Robertson.
The Ghost Locket
Eleven-year-old Lolli must return to London and break a promise she made — to never again enter the historic building run by her beloved Aunt Elsie. However, with the busy Christmas season coming, help is required and Lolli, with her guardian Freya, must return to the house of her nightmares.
Inside, Lolli must face up to what she saw three years ago. Only she can make things right for two ghosts, one friendly and one decidedly not.
But Freya can’t see the things that Lolli sees. She doesn’t understand what’s at stake. Can Lolli convince Freya that her dreams are real and help the ghosts in time?
Available from Where the Wild Things Are, Readings, Riverbend, Booktopia, Dymocks.