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| Eddie is 11, and his parents have a rare illness that turns them yellow. He gets sent to his Mad Uncle Jack and ]'s house called, namely, Awful End. | Eddie is 11, and his parents have a rare illness that turns them yellow. He gets sent to his Mad Uncle Jack and ]'s house called, namely, Awful End. | ||
| On his way there, he gets mistaken for an orphan, and get's sent to St. Horrid's orphanage. | On his way there, he gets mistaken for an orphan, and get's sent to St. Horrid's orphanage. | ||
| A plan suddenly shows up in his mind and |
A plan suddenly shows up in his mind and frees all the orphans(and himself).At the end all is happy and they will all meet again in Dreadful Acts the second book in the trilogy. | ||
| At the end,Even Madder Aunt Maud dies,and is buried but her body was recently removed to make space for a swimming pool. | |||
| ==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
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Awful End (published in the US as A House Called Awful End) is a 2002 children's novel. It won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 2003 for its translation into German by Harry Rowohlt.
Awful End is the first book of the Eddie Dickens Trilogy by Philip Ardagh; after which he published the "fourth and fifth books of the trilogy".
Plot
Eddie is 11, and his parents have a rare illness that turns them yellow. He gets sent to his Mad Uncle Jack and Even Madder Aunt Maud's house called, namely, Awful End. On his way there, he gets mistaken for an orphan, and get's sent to St. Horrid's orphanage. A plan suddenly shows up in his mind and frees all the orphans(and himself).At the end all is happy and they will all meet again in Dreadful Acts the second book in the trilogy.
Trivia
- The German translator Harry Rowohlt has read all five books of the trilogy.
External links
http://www.philipardaghbooks.com/awfulend.html
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