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By: Joan Aiken

ISBN: 9780099456667
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: May 2004
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2004
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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Dido Twite is waylaid by her father, the shady Abednego Twite, acting on instructions from his evil patron. How does hard-drinking Mrs Lily Bloodvessel figure in this intricate plot, with her cellar full of sleeping guttersnipes

Another rollercoasting story by Joan Aiken, in which Dido's scheming Pa finally receives his comeuppance.


(Paperback)

By: Joan Aiken

ISBN: 9781782954392
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2014
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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'It's a rotten old job being King!' says Dido Twite. Her friend King Simon agrees - his scheming courtiers want to marry him off to a pushy princess, and he has to lead his army against a tribe of invading Wends.


(Paperback)

By: Joan Aiken

ISBN: 9780099456391
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: May 2004
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2004
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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In this novel Simon arrives in London and has his first introduction to the indomitable Dido Twite who is to play such a significant part in his life- and in the life of the series!


(Paperback)

By: Joan Aiken

ISBN: 9780099456674
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: May 2004
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2004
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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Dido Twite is aboard the Thrush, trying to return to England after her adventures in America. But orders have been sent to find Lord Herodsfoot, said to be on Aratu, the Pacific 'Island of the Pearl Snakes'. On Aratu she is helped by spirit magic but also meets settlers who will stop at nothing to achieve their ends.


(Paperback)

By: Joan Aiken

ISBN: 9780099456643
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: May 2004
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2004
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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Shipwrecked Dido Twite is picked up by a whaling ship- and then finds herself sinking deeper and deeper into trouble


(Paperback)

By: Joan Aiken

ISBN: 9780099456650
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: May 2004
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2004
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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While her friend Capt Hughes recovers from a carriage accident, Dido is marooned with the odd inhabitants of the Tegleaze estate. a priceless possession is stolen, a boy kidnapped, a twin sister found and when Dido catches a glimpse of her rascally father in Petworth, she is sure she is in the midst of another wicked Hanoverian plot.


(Paperback)

By: Joan Aiken

ISBN: 9780099477396
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Apr 2005
UK Publication Date: 6th January 2005
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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Dido Twite, heroine of Black Hearts in Battersea and Nightbirds on Nantucket, is on her wildest adventure yet. Dido faces fire, flood, wild beasts and, ultimately, threat of execution in order to get the lake back.


(Paperback)

By: Joan Aiken

ISBN: 9780099456636
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: May 2004
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2004
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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1832 - a period of English History that never happened. When Sylvia and Bonnie (both orphans) fall into the hands of evil Miss Slighcarp, they must use all their wits to escape unscathed - for the governess is more cruel and merciless than the wolves that surround the great house of Willoughby Chase.