Petronella saves nearly everyone
By: Dene Low ; illustrations by Jen Corace.
Contributors: Corace, Jen, ill.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780547152509
Subjects: Uncles -- Juvenile fiction; Insects -- Juvenile fiction; Missing persons -- Juvenile fiction; Uncles -- Fiction; Insects -- Fiction; Missing persons -- Fiction; Mystery and detective stories; London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction; London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History -- Edward VII, 1901-1910 -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction; Fiction
Description: In the spring of 1903 at her country estate, Petronella Arbuthnot faces an enormous dilemma during her sixteenth-birthday festivities as important guests disappear, kidnapping notes appear, and Uncle Augustus, who has developed a bug-eating compulsion, is surreptiously devouring the insect evidence.
Notes: "The entomological tales of Augustus T. Percival."

A Junior Library Guild selection.