Leonard Wibberley
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Leonard Patrick O'Connor Wibberley, who also published under the name Patrick O'Connor, among others, was a prolific and versatile Ireland-born author who spent most of his life in the United States. Wibberley, who published more than 100 books, is perhaps best known for five satirical novels about an imaginary country Grand Fenwick, particularly The Mouse That Roared (1955). Wibberley's adult and juvenile publications cut across the categories of fictional novels, history, and biography. He also wrote short stories (several published in The Saturday Evening Post), plays and long verse poems. - Wikipedia
Books
John Treegate's Musket (Living History Library)
Peter Treegate, apprentice to a maker of barrel staves in Boston in 1769, becomes a victim of his fellow apprentices and the uncertain times. Grades 6-8.
Out Of The Depths
The Last Battle
When evil comes to Narnia, Jill and Eustace help fight the great last battle and Aslan leads his people to a glorious new paradise.
The mouse that saved the West
The fourth book in the bestselling The Mouse That Roared series brings the Duchy of Grand Fenwick's most extraordinary achievement yet—the defeat of OPEC and the happy solution to the world's oil crisis, which came about through the best that international diplomacy has to offer: duplicity and dumb luck. It all began when the Count of Mountjoy, the prime minister of Grand Fenwick, was unable to get a hot bath because of the fuel shortage… “…an excellent book to read on a cool, wet afternoon.” — LibraryThing Review “Fun and recommended for fans of Wibberley's books.” — LibraryThing Review THE GRAND FENWICK BOOK SERIES: Books 2 through 5 are best read after The Mouse That Roared, but all of the books can be read and enjoyed at any point in the series. The Mouse That Roared (Book 1) The Mouse On The Moon (Book 2) The Mouse On Wall Street (Book 3) The Mouse That Saved The West (Book 4) Beware of The Mouse (A Prequel to The Mouse That Roared) (Book 5)
The Crime of Martin Coverly
After being visited by a man in 18th-century clothing who resembles his uncle and claims they have unfinished business, 15-year-old Nick finds himself aboard his uncle's pirate ship in the 1720's.
Little League family
When two brothers become members of the Little League, the whole family becomes involved in baseball.
Perilous gold
A young boy and his father use their two-man submarine to locate the wreck of a ship carrying miners' gold from the Klondike gold rush.
Guarneri
A fictionalized biography of the Italian violin maker whose instruments, unappreciated in his lifetime, were deemed among the greatest many years after his death.
One in four
Full of succinctly portrayed big ideas. Well-written. An accomplished but mainly forgotten author. Among the last of his many titles.
Red pawns
While their uncle is in England trying to avert war, eighteen-year-old Manly Treegate and his twelve-year-old brother, Peter, go to the Ohio frontier to prepare for war against Tecumseh's forces.
Flint's Island
A sequel to the most popular pirate tale ever told—Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Inspired by the opening line of the famous novel in which Jim Hawkins tells of a "treasure not yet lifted" still hidden on an unknown island, Leonard Wibberley (author of The Mouse That Roared) penned this this unofficial sequel—a gratifyingly bloody and piratical tale, dominated by one of fiction's great hero-rogues, the endlessly cunning, forever evil Long John Silver. Wibberley, in his foreword, tells how he came to write Flint's Island, "I realized I must myself, however unworthy, attempt to supply the story of what happened to the remaining treasure or die with that question, raised in childhood, unanswered."
Leopard's prey
"From a tough stint in the armed forces to stalking the unknown as a bayou cop, leopard shifter Remy Boudreaux has been served well by his uncanny gifts. And right now, New Orleans could use a homicide detective like Remy. A serial killer is loose, snatching victims from the French Quarter with pitiless rage and unnatural efficiency. But something else is drawing Remy into the twilight--a beautiful jazz singer bathed night after night in a flood of bloodred neon"--Page 4 of cover.
Journey to Untor
Further adventures of four children who can travel to other worlds--this time to a distant planet where enemies are fought with imagination and will power.
