The Onts

Written by Dan Greenburg · Illustrated by Scott M. Fischer

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· 740L

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Bookroo's summary

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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