Synopses & Reviews
If you think nothing much is going on when Rupert P. Brown III begins sixth grade at Pepperdine Elementary School, you'd be dead wrong. Consider the following: a new teacher with the unlikely name of Miss Blossom; a new principal who has all the girls swooning; a talking bird who thinks he's a math whiz; a computer that goes berserk and produces a Web site called computowitch.com that not only displays some very ominous poetry, but whose password is the name of a witch Rupert has tangled with in the past. Yes, a
witch!Faster than you can say "witchcraft and wizardry," Rupert figures he could be in big trouble. He can really use the help of Miss Switch, a real, honest-to-goodness witch herself, who also, amazingly, was once a former popular teacher of Rupert's class at Pepperdine. He has reason to believe she's back, but where?
Once again, Rupert records another scary (well, sort of) and funny encounter with Miss Switch. His earlier accounts, equally scary and funny, appear in the books The Trouble with Miss Switch and Miss Switch to the Rescue.
About the Author
Barbara Brooks Wallace writes, "With the exception of a couple of fantasies, I've been all wrapped up in Victorian-era mysteries ever since I wrote
Peppermints in the Parlor. But all of these stories, with their flickering gaslights, creepy shadows, and dastardly villains doing incredibly wicked deeds seem, at least in my mind, to have a touch of fantasy about them. I decided to take a break from all this, and return to stark reality and the modern world by doing a sequel to two earlier books. So in this book you have your rather ordinary elementary school, your PTA, your playground monkey bars, your sixth-grade hero and, of course, your witch."
Ms. Wallace's earlier books, The Trouble with Miss Switch and Miss Switch to the Rescue, were televised as ABC weekend specials and ended up as the highest-rated shows in the series. She has written several award-winning Victorian mysteries, including the Edgar award-winning Twin in the Tavern and Sparrows in the Scullery, in the house she inhabits in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband and other assorted pets.