1797-1851

Sixth-grader Maggie is stuck with insufferable Jacob on a class writing project, and when they get into an argument over who really wrote the novel Frankenstein, they suddenly find themselves in Switzerland in 1816 where Lord Byron and Mary and Percy Shelley are planning to write a scary story each--the trouble is Mary has writer's block.

An illustrated biography of the life of English novelist Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

On the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, comes a riveting biography of its author, Mary Shelley, whose life reads like a dark gothic novel, filled with scandal, death, drama, and one of the strangest love stories in literary history.

Told primarily by servant Felix, a former slave, Lord Byron and friends gather to tell ghost stories on a stormy night in 1816 Switzerland, but a scarred girl arrives with her own dark and dangerous tale.

Examines how the experiments of four scientists--Luigi Galvani, Giovanni Aldini, Andrew Ure, and Konrad Dippel--inspired Mary Shelly's Frankenstein.

"In its popular and cultural weight and its expression of the ethical issues raised by the advance of science, physicist Sidney Perkowitz and film expert Eddy Von Mueller have brought together scholars and scientists, artists and directors to celebrate and examine Mary Shelley's creation and its legacy as the monster moves into his next century."--OCLC.

"Told primarily by servant Felix, a former slave, Lord Byron and friends gather to tell ghost stories on a stormy night in 1816 Switzerland, but a scarred girl arrives with her own dark and dangerous tale"--Provided by publisher.

Mary Shelley found the inspiration for Frankenstein while staying on the shores of Lake Geneva with Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and other friends, when Byron suggested they hold a ghost story competition. She was just eighteen at the time. It was published in 1818 and went on to become one of the best-known Gothic horror stories of all time. It is brought to life in this graphic adaptation by Pete Katz's illustrations.

The young Lady Ada Byron and Mary Godwin, best friends and founders of the now popular Wollstonecraft Detective Agency, brave a ghostly girl, a creepy crypt, and a deadly storm to unlock the secrets of Dedlock Hall in their next case.

When the famed dinosaur fossil hunter Mary Anning is being blackmailed, the Wollestonecraft girls are on the case. With just three days to track down the criminals, find Mary Anning's missing dog, and save the name of science, this might be the girls' toughest case yet.