Title: Awful End
First published: 2000
Description: When eleven-year-old Eddie Dickens's sickly parents become "a bit crinkly round the edges," he is taken in by his great-uncle and great-aunt, Mad Uncle Jack and Mad Aunt Maude, and embarks on adventures that involve strolling actors, St. Horrid's Home for Grateful Orphans, and a carnival float shaped like a giant cow.
Subjects: Fiction, Great-aunts, Humorous stories, Great-uncles, Social life and customs, Families, Reise, Juvenile fiction, Kinderbuch, Flucht, Verwandtschaft, Manners and customs, Waisenhaus, Junge, History, Children's fiction
Places: England
LC classification: PZ7.A6776 Aw 2000