The Onts
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Chapter Book · Ages 8–12 · 2006 · Est. 2 hour read

The Onts

By Dan Greenburg, Scott M. Fischer (Illustrator)

Book #1 in the Secrets of Dripping Fang series

Twins face bizarre dangers in a forest with eerie secrets.

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131 pages· 15,708 words· Est. 2 hour read
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Orphan twins Wally and Cheyenne Shluffmuffin are adopted by the peculiar Mandible sisters, who live in the mysterious Dripping Fang Forest. With zombies singing nursery rhymes and glowing slugs lurking, the twins must uncover the truth behind their new guardians' strange habits and forbidden cellar. Can they escape the forest's sinister grip before it's too late?

From the publisher

Nobody wants to adopt the Shluffmuffin twins. Wally’s feet stink something awful, and Cheyenne is allergic to everything. Then why are the Mandible sisters so eager to take them home? And what sort of old maids would choose to live in a place called Dripping Fang Forest, where zombies wander the woods singing “Itsy Bitsy Spider” and ten-foot-long glowing slugs want to suck the feet right off your ankles? Would it seem ungrateful of Wally to point out the Mandible sisters’ extra arms? Or to question their all-chocolate, all-the-time menu? Or, um, to venture into the cellar, where the twins have been told to NEVER, EVER, EVER go? Yeah, perhaps that last bit was a mistake. Now there’s nothing left for the Shluffmuffins to do but run–run for their lives!

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Format
Hardcover
Pages
131
Words
15,708
Reading age
8–12
Audience
Middle Grade
Lexile
740L
Themes & topics
Books about antsBooks about siblingsBooks about twinsBooks about familyBooks about orphans
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Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
4.4
F&P level
~R
AR points
2
AR interest level
MG
AR quiz
103099
Publication
Published
September 1, 2005
First published
September 1, 2006
Publisher
Clarion Books
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9780152054571

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