Books with author Barbara Brooks Wallace

When Rupert P. Brown saves Miss Switch, the witch who doubles as the most popular fifth-grade teacher ever at Pepperdine Elementary School, by wrecking wicked Saturna’s nutty Computowitch, who could know that he would become Saturna’s archenemy and on her hit list forever? And who could have guessed that her wickedness would get Rupert’s best friend, Amelia Daley, kidnapped by the scary warlock, Mordo, whose specialty is turning just about everyone in his path into toads?Would Amelia become one, as well as others of Rupert’s Pepperdine Elementary School classmates? Could Rupert discover this all was happening in the seventeenth century and get there in time to rescue them? Enter Miss Switch to the rescue! “Wallace’s fast, suspenseful, funny sequel with escapades dashingly described by Rupert, right up to the daffy end.” Publisher’s Weekly

Book 1 in a Smart, Sassy Cozy Mystery Series Set Outside of Boston. When Sadie McIntyre gives a drunken Marylou Paretsky a ride home on a rainy night, little does she realize it's the last time anyone will see Marylou alive. The following morning, Marylou is found dead at the bottom of her staircase, the victim of foul play. Who killed Marylou? Was it her philandering husband? His lover? Or one of the residents Marylou was blackmailing? In a town where everyone has a secret, the list of suspects is endless.To make matters worse, Sadie is hiding her own secret. One that, if discovered, could shoot her to the top of the list! Can Sadie find Marylou's killer before her secret becomes public? Or will the killer find her first? Author Barbara Wallace is the award-winning author of over twenty romance novels. THE SUBURBS HAVE SECRETS is her cozy mystery debut.

Newly orphaned Jenny travels from China to live with a grandfather she has never met only to be condemned to a dark cellar room and a cruel servant's life. Why? "Guaranteed chills and thrills," says Horn Book of Ghosts in the Gallery, nominated by Mystery Writers of America for its EDGAR Award. "Descriptions draw the reader a picture of time and place and atmosphere that is nearly perfect. Sure to be a hit," says School Library Journal. Washington Parent calls this book a "real page turner."

We're in the dangerous streets of the New York tenements at the close of the 19th century, with two young boys who have escaped their vicious stepfather by faking their own drowning in the river. Matt and Mickey Deacon disguise themselves by changing their names to Nip and Tuck. But just changing names for two proverbial peas in a pod is hardly enough to save them from the determined evil predators who are seeking them: Hike Raider, their erstwhile stepfather, who threatens to put the twins¿ baby sister in a dreaded baby farm; Gold-tooth Aunty, a deadly Faginesque female, who reels the unsuspecting boys into her den of pickpockets, cheaters, and thieves; and a roster of other mysterious, wicked characters. Does this story have a melodramatic Victorian happy ending for the twins? Was there ever any doubt?

This is a story about furkens, descendants of a branch of genus elf, who have lost their elfin powers of being able to vanish and now hide fearfully in human houses. They are sadly often mistaken for mice, although don't smell like mice. They smell like warm apricot jam!They are "endearing, fully developed creatures," says Horn Book.ALA Booklist adds, "A tale that will have readers clamoring for a sequel."

Timid, eleven-year-old Dylis Rattenbury, afraid to cross the street without holding someone's hand, idolizes bold, free-spirited, indifferent Victoria Corcoran. When both are sent to boarding school, Dylis is miserable at being separated from her parents, while Victoria seems only concerned that boarding school does not provide room service. With their two roommates she forms a secret club, ostensibly to ward off the "evil forces" in the school, but privately to help get herself expelled."A boarding school story far from the old formula junior novel."Children's Books"An unusual and entertaining novel, well told."Publishers Weekly

How, Amelia wonders, could four short months have such a wonderful beginning and such a grim and terrible ending? Why must she now find herself riding to the docks of London en route to a strange new life in America, seated beside the stone-faced, bloodless, tight-lipped woman in the grim black hat?"The plot twists and turns at an alarming rate in the is story of dastardly crimes and firm friendships, and that's exactly what makes it so much fun..." says Booklist in its starred review.A Junior Library Guild book, and Mystery Writers of America EDGAR nominee.