Theodosia is a precocious eleven year old who has been truant from school all her life. Her grandmother is determined to find her a stern, capable tutor. Instead of school, Theodosia has been working in a museum cataloging artifacts and learning everything there is to know about ancient Egypt.One...
For a young man who has only ever "felt the smallest beginning of an adventerous spark," finding himself in the custody of an aunt whom he never knew about after the loss of his parents, Nathaniel is in for the adventure of a lifetime: the birth of a Phoenix, which only happens every 500 years! ...
After reading LaFevers' Theodosia Throckmorton series, I was excited to dig into her Nathaniel Fludd books. I was disappointed.The first book in the series is written on a much lower level than the Theodosia Throckmorton books. I would classify "The Flight of the Phoenix" as a middle reader as op...
This is the third book in LaFevers' young adult series about budding Egyptologist Theodosia Throckmorton. Be sure to read the books in order of publication as the three stories lean heavily on each other making reading them out of order an impossibility.That being said, I was a little put out by ...
I hope that there are more stories with Theodosia and Egyptian lore. This was a a great story, full of action and adventure in the land of Egypt. I was also surprised with the high vocabulary used throughout the book. I kept looking up words and only a couple of them were undefinable since the...
Nathaniel Fludd is turning out to be a Beastologist that honors his family lineage. In this adventure Nate, Aunt Phil and his small gremlin friend Greasle travel to Niger to return a rare basilisk back to his/her lair. Dangerous beast these creatures are, but no match for Nathaniel Fludd. Sadly t...
What a treat! I never read a book about WYVERNS before, so this story was pretty cool! The series itself keeps getting better every time I take a look at it too. It's funny, mysterious, and I love how Nate is quickly starting to grow as a Beastologist. Not only that, but in this volume, we learn ...
This fantasy combines wizardry and magic with an absorbing animal-rescue story and should appeal to all fantasy lovers, but especially boys. Wat, a crippled boy, is an outcast in his village and retreats often to the forest, away from the cruel taunts of the villagers. There he witnesses the lord...
Theodosia Throckmorton has her hands full at the Museum of Legends and Antiquities in London.Her father may be head curator, but it is Theo - and only Theo - who is able to see all the black magic and ancient curses that still cling to the artifacts in the museum. Sneaking behind her father's bac...