The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone

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Jaclyn Moriarty returns with her first middle-grade novel a buoyantly high-spirited fantasy adventure. Bronte Mettlestone is ten years old when her parents are killed by pirates.This does not bother her particularly: her parents ran away to have adventures when she was a baby. She has been raised by her Aunt Isabelle with assistance from the Butler and has spent a pleasant childhood of afternoon teas and riding lessons. Now however her parents have left detailed instructions for Bronte in their will. (Instructions that annoyingly have been reinforced with faery cross-stitch which means that if she doesnt complete them terrible things could happen!) She travels the kingdoms perfectly alone delivering gifts to ten other aunts: a farmer aunt who owns an orange orchard a veterinarian aunt who specializes in dragon care a pair of aunts who captain a cruise ship and a former rock star aunt who is now the reigning monarch of a small kingdom.But as she travels from aunt to aunt Bronte suspects there might be more to this journey than the simple delivery of treasure.