![]() ![]() ![]() if Anastasia, Ollie, Quentin, and Gus (aka the League of Beastly Dreadfuls) can decipher the clues and figure out how to open it. ![]() And that cabinet holds the key to Anastasia´s missing grandfather. From the opening chapter, entitled A Splendid Day for a Funeral, readers know that shocking events are sure to follow. ![]() The witches have long since been banished, but deep in the darkest, most forbidden back alleys of Nowhere Special lies Calixto´s mysterious, unbreakable glass cabinet. 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. Lemoncello´s Library and coauthor with James Patterson of the House of Robots and Treasure Hunters series Take one part Roald Dahl, a pinch of the Mysterious Benedict Society, and a dash of Lemony Snicket, then add a league of adventurous children, a little magic, and a centuries-old feud with witches, and you get this quirky and darkly hilarious middle-grade series! Long ago, the evil wizard Calixto Swift committed a terrible crime against twelve-year-old Anastasia´s family, a crime that began the Perpetual War between witches and the people of Nowhere Special. "Wonderfully witty." -Chris Grabenstein, New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Mr. ![]()
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