By Kate McKinnon
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2024. Fiction. 243 pages.
In this middle grade book, three orphaned girls who were raised as sisters by a horrible adopted family who clearly didn't care about them, work together to save their town. Gertrude, Eugenia, and Dee-Dee have never fit into their town of Antiquarium, Rhodechussetts. In fact, due to their misadventures and crazy science experiments they've been kicked out of every etiquette school in the entire city. When they accept a strange invitation that they receive in the mail to a new etiquette school just opening up in town to avoid being sent to finishing school in Austria, they find that the school is run by none other than Millicent Quibb, a mad scientist who is blamed for everything that goes wrong in the town. They soon find, though, that things aren't exactly how they appear and they'll need to join forces with Millicent to save everyone they know from a terrible fate.
If your kids are in to madcap adventure stories, humor books, or crazy science, this book is sure to delight them. Give this to fans of Lemony Snicket's The Series of Unfortunate Events books and they'll definitely thank you. If you like audiobooks, this is an especially fun one, narrated by McKinnon with hilarious voices and sound effects. Kids will be sitting on the edge of their seats waiting for the next installment in the series.
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