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| When both of Eddie's parents catch a disease that makes them turn yellow, go a bit crinkly around the edges, and smell of old hot-water bottles, it's agreed he should go away and stay with relatives at their house. Alas, the house is not the loveliest of places. In fact, it is named Awful End. And, the relatives are Mad Uncle Jack and Even Madder Aunt Maud. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Along the way to Awful End, Eddie will be hypnotized by a handkerchief, threatened by a bearded stranger, mistaken for a poor little orphan boy at St. Horrid's Home for Grateful Orphans, and granted an audience with The Empress of All China (who isn't really the Empress of All China - but that's another story). | |||
| 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== | ==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
When both of Eddie's parents catch a disease that makes them turn yellow, go a bit crinkly around the edges, and smell of old hot-water bottles, it's agreed he should go away and stay with relatives at their house. Alas, the house is not the loveliest of places. In fact, it is named Awful End. And, the relatives are Mad Uncle Jack and Even Madder Aunt Maud.
Along the way to Awful End, Eddie will be hypnotized by a handkerchief, threatened by a bearded stranger, mistaken for a poor little orphan boy at St. Horrid's Home for Grateful Orphans, and granted an audience with The Empress of All China (who isn't really the Empress of All China - but that's another story).
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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