num_pages: 111
description: Fire ants. Fraud. Footie pajamas.Twins Edgar and Ellen live alone -- their parents disappeared years ago, and who can blame them? -- in the quaint, little town of Nod's Limbs, in a grim, gray house overlooking the cemetery and the junkyard. They spend their days avoiding Heimertz, the mysterious accordion-playing caretaker; pestering Pet, a hairy, one-eyed creature of indeterminate species and gender; and wreaking havoc on the hapless citizens of Nod's Limbs.But wreaking havoc can incur expenses, so the twins come up with a unique fund-raising scheme: They'll nab the pets of Nod's Limbs and transform them into exotic animals they can sell for big bucks. Not a bad plan, if one of the purloined pets wasn't a lethargic python with a raging appetite....
language: English
title: Rare Beasts
titlecomplete: Rare Beasts (Edgar & Ellen, #1)
characters: Ellen Stephensen, Edgar
genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Childrens, Juvenile, Humor, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Halloween, Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 1374
series: Edgar & Ellen
publisher: Aladdin