First is Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell. Emmy used to have loving parents and the three of them lived happily in a small apartment over the used bookstore her parents owned. All of that changed when her uncle died and left his sizable fortune to her parents. They hired a nanny who seems to have somehow tricked her parents into nearly forgetting poor Emmy and even worse seems to have evil intentions upon Emmy herself. Emmy must try to figure out the nanny's plan with the help of some very special rodents before it is too late.
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place Book #1: The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood has a very different nanny. Fifteen-year-old Penelope applies for a nanny job that specifies the new nanny "must like animals". It turns out that her new charges are 3 children that were raised by wolves and found by the owner of the estate. She must use all her skills to try to bend the children into proper English children who prefer sitting still and sipping tea to chasing after squirrels on all fours. This is a very funny book with an undertone of mystery. Elaine and I impatiently await the sequel.
--Rachel
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