  | Weirdies (Weirdies) Author: Buckley, Michael | |
| Price: $20.48 | ||
Summary:
Ten-year-old triplets Barnacle, Melancholy, and Garlic Weirdie grew up in a town plagued by relentless meteor showers. The entire group of grown-ups goes on vacation, forgetting to bring the children. The three siblings are sent to Our Lady of the Perpetual Side-Eye orphanage, where they meet Miss Emily, a sweet and loving caseworker who attempts to smooth their rough edges. Will the Weirdies and Miss Emily become the family they all desperately need, or will it end in disaster for everyone?
| Illustrator: | Burdett, Forrest |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (07/15/25)
Booklist (06/01/25)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 06/01/2025 Spun off from the first two episodes of an audio original, this distinctly Lemony Snicket–style gothic features three 10-year-old siblings who would fit right into the Addams Family, a kindly social worker willing to overlook the kids’ fondness for explosives and other peccadilloes in order to adopt them, and their thoroughly demonic parents, who are (incorrectly) thought to be dead. Barnacle Weirdie and his sisters, Melancholy and Garlic, exude roguish charm in the cover illustration but are more like destructive forces of nature in the story. Growing up in a huge mansion with servants to brush their teeth, dress them, and even chew their meat, the three are later plucked from the Our Lady of the Perpetual Side-Eye orphanage by the relentlessly loving Miss Emily. The children are swept up in a custody battle when their ruthless birth mom and dad unexpectedly reappear with a fiendish plan to exploit them to restore the family fortunes. Readers who delight in macabre details, savagely caricatured grown-ups, and plucky young folk coping with unfortunate events will be tickled. - Copyright 2025 Booklist.
