num_pages: 128
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 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: Edgar, Ellen Stephensen
genres: Halloween, Fantasy, Middle Grade, Comedy, Horror, Young Adult, Childrens, Humor, Fiction, Juvenile
ratings_count: 1375
series: Edgar & Ellen
publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's