Books with author Barbara Brooks Wallace

Perfecta Jones is hemmed in by boring houses that to her are no more exciting than shoes boxes. She must obey ridiculous rules of the owner, Mr. Droopert P. Snoot, who has no use for children. On one magical night, Perfecta enters the house across the street, the only one not owned by Mr. Snoot. What happens to her there is an adventure that will change her life!"Characters reminiscent of Roald Dahl"-ALA Booklist"Sets up nasty, convention-bound adults against the free-wheeling imagination of childhood to a surprisingly moving ending."-Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Maximilian Pettigrew Westmorington Bassford Thorndike Finstersill Smith the Fifth, otherwise known as Max, is an uber-rich, super-spoiled kid. His only friends are his dogs and one more-or-less (mostly less) friend, Percival. Suddenly and dramatically, Max loses both his parents when they sink with the glamorous holiday island where his father has invested every one of his gazillion dollars. Max, in one terrible moment, becomes a penniless orphan. Furthermore, his father’s lawyers have to dig to find so much as one relative to whom they can deliver Max. Next thing you know, Max, who thinks wrinkled old people are creeps, gets dumped in a retirement home run by witchy twin sisters, where he falls in love with a bunch of oldsters, yclept the Mother Goose-ites, who fall in love with him!

5 CD's 5.5 hours run time. Life has been difficult for 10-year-old Colley Trevelyan ever since he lost his mother and father in a fatal carriage accident. Most of the servants have been dismissed, and the house feels empty. To make matters worse, soon he will be living with his aunt and uncle who have never liked him. One night he suddenly wakes up wrapped tightly in a rough blanket. As he struggles to free himself, a strange man carries him to a waiting carriage. The next thing Colley knows, he is in London at the dreadful Broggin Home for Boys—and people are calling him Jed Broggin. Why is this happening to him? Barbara Brooks Wallace packs suspense and plot twists into this tale of a young boy finding a reason to live amidst horrible conditions. Sparrows in the Scullery won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award. With narrator Steven Crossley’s dramatic flair and authentic accent, he transports youngsters to historical England to discover what life was like there a hundred years ago.