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Gr 6–8—Otto, Lucia, and Max are the Hardscrabble children, and one of them is the unidentified narrator. Otto, the oldest, hasn't spoken out loud since he was eight, when the children's mother vanished. Their father, Casper Hardscrabble, paints portraits of royal families, returning with stories of their adventures to tell his children. When he sends them to London to stay with his cousin, who turns out to be away on holiday, they make their way to their great-aunt Haddie, who lives in a l...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Lucia Hardscrabble disguises herself as an omniscient narrator (shades of Oswald Bastable) to recount the doings of herself and her two brothers when they make the most of a family mix-up to slip away from adult supervision and seek adventure. First they travel from their village to London and from there to a castle at Snoring-by-the-Sea, where the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Lucia Hardscrabble and her two brothers travel to a castle at Snoring-by-the-Sea where they encounter an ominous taxidermist, secret passages, an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More