Barbara Brooks Wallace

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1940
  • Latest Book:
    December 2017
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Full Series List in Order

Peppermints

1 - Peppermints in the Parlor (May-2005)
2 - The Perils of Peppermints (May-2005)

Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • Hawkins

    Harvey Small and his friend Woody Woodruff enjoy, for one month, the services of a real English gentleman's gentleman, who helps with their lemonade stand, school skits, and the mystery of old Mrs. Mosley's ghost...

  • The Barrel in the Basement

    "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 ...

  • The Twin in the Tavern

    Orphaned twice and all alone in the world, Taddy watches as Neezer and Lucky, two sinister thieves, steal his family's possessions, and then make him a virtual prisoner. With only table scraps and dry crusts of bread to eat, Taddy and another boy nam...

  • Cousins in the Castle

    Learning that she is moving to America to live with a distant relative, newly orphaned Amelia begins a difficult journey with a hostile cousin and finds solace in a forbidden friendship with a young vaudeville performer. Jr Lib Guild....

  • Sparrows in the Scullery

    Colin Trevelyan, newly orphaned heir to his parents' fortune, is kidnapped in the night from his ancestral home and taken to the grim Broggin Home for Boys, where he is underfed, overworked, and destined for a short life in a deadly glass factory. Th...

  • Andrew The Big Deal

  • Can Do, Miss Charlie

    "Train trips through a countryside teeming with bandits. Being carried in a sedan chair up the spine-chillingly narrow path of a mountain. Looking back, it does now seem to be a childhood full of excitement, although we never thought so at the time."...

  • Palmer Patch

    What's a skunk to do when he finds himself encased in a cardboard box, surrounded by possible enemies, and with his weapon taken from him? Luckily he is simply surrounded by the friendly Patch family animals—a cat, two dogs, a goat, and a duck....

  • Victoria

    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 par...



  • The Hawkins Series

    A very proper English gentleman's gentleman is not what a ten-year-old American boy needs in his life. But one appears on Harvey Small's doorstep when he enters a "free" contest without being aware of the prize. So it's candlelight dinners alone serv...

  • The Secret Summer Of L.E.B.

    This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Authors Guild/BIP specs.Text for author bio box:Please use the author's bioText for book description Box:Belonging to the V.I.G.'s and B.'she Very Important Girls and Boyss the ultimate achievement in Li...

  • Claudia

    In her three popular Claudia books, Barbara Brooks Wallace has created stories that have appealed to boys and girls alike. Misunderstood by her parents, snubbed by a former best friend, on the outs at school because of unjust rumors, and finally, for...

  • Claudia And Duffy

    Having once been snubbed by a former best friend, Claudia knows what it feels like to be dumped. Now shes faced with having to do the same thing. Only this is someone she still cares about, the precociously memorable Duffy Booth, her much younger nei...

  • Hello, Claudia!

    In this prequel to Claudia, aged eleven and in the sixth grade, Barbara Brooks Wallace introduces us to a Claudia aged nine and in the fourth grade. She and her best friends are like twins, even to the same number of scabs on their knees! But her fri...

  • Miss Switch to the Rescue

    School isn't the same for Rupert Brown and Amelia Daley without Miss Switch, their incredible broomstick-riding, spell-casting teacher! February's sooooo boring without her. A mysterious package for Rupert promises to add a little excitement to t...

  • The Trouble With Miss Switch

    What do you do when you discover that your new fifth-grade teacher, Miss Switch, is an honest-to-goodness, broom-flying, card-carrying witch who has arrived at your school actually requiring the help of your great scientific brain to help her solve a...

  • Secret in St. Something

    One flight up the narrow, steep stairs, Robin finds himself swallowed up by the darkness, terrified and hating the thought of the misery and fear his knock will bring to the wretched families who huddle behind every door in the building.Thus begins t...

  • Julia And The Third Bad Thing

    Bad things always happen in threes! If a very old person like Grandmama says it, is it not true? This is the very normal, understandable worry eight-year-old Julia has when she has knocked a burning hot iron into her little sister's hand. The first b...

  • Peppermints in the Parlor

    Peppermints - 1

    Emily Luccock is looking forward to living at Sugar Hill Hall....She remembers her aunt and uncle's grand old mansion well, with its enormous, elegant parlor, marble fireplace, and white china cups filled with hot chocolate. But this time things are ...



  • The Perils of Peppermints

    Peppermints - 2

    Emily Luccock thought the worst was behind her; she had survived the horrors of Sugar Hill Hall and been reunited with her beloved Aunt and Uncle Twice. Now she is devastated to be left at Mrs. Spilking's Select Academy while her aunt and uncle sail ...

  • Ghosts In The Gallery

    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 My...

  • Argyle

    A comic-satiric fable about the blessing of anonymity and the pitfalls of fame. Argyle the sheep finds comfort in belonging but also requires time away from the flock. After his white wool changes into colorful stripes--caused by devouring some deli...

  • The Interesting Thing That Happened at Perfect Acres, Inc.

    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...

  • Miss Switch Online

    If you think nothing much is going on when Rupert P. Brown III begins sixth grade at Pepperdine Elementary School, you'd be dead wrong. Consider the following: a new teacher with the unlikely name of Miss Blossom; a new principal who has all the girl...

  • Diary of a Little Devil

    Written in diary form, this Cinderella-themed tale is expertly woven by the master award-winning authoress, Barbara Brooks Wallace. Anderson "Andy" Lillibeth Wardell makes 25 entries in her diary, spanning 8 long months, taking place in China and the...

  • Miss Switch's Bathsheba & the Cat Caper

    Bathsheba, the sassy, clever cat who always accompanies Miss Switch everyplace she goes (Miss Switch being the witch who also doubles as an enormously popular fifth-and sixth-grade teacher at Pepperdine Elementary School) now goes on an adventure of ...

  • Dragon for Hire

    If someone were to tell you they found a DRAGON in their family garage, you would think they were one of three things: 1) LOONY; or 2) LYING; or 3) VIVIDLY IMAGINATIVE. But Morris was NOT LOONY. He NEVER TOLD A LIE. And as for IMAGINATION, he had ZIP...

  • All about Max

    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 dramaticall...

  • Seeking Nip and Tuck

    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...



Award-Winning Books by Barbara Brooks Wallace

Sparrows in the Scullery
1998 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Juvenile
The Twin in the Tavern
1994 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Juvenile


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Barbara Brooks Wallace has published 29 books.

Barbara Brooks Wallace does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Seeking Nip and Tuck, was published in December 2017.

The first book by Barbara Brooks Wallace, Hawkins, was published in June 1940.

Yes. Barbara Brooks Wallace has 1 series.
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