Penelope takes the three incorrigible children to Brighton in hopes of discovering how to end the wolfish curse on the Ashton family before the newest Ashton baby arrives.
Miss Penelope Lumley, governess to the three Incorrigible children who were raised by wolves, is invited to speak at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females. The academy's board of trustees asks Penelope to demonstrate the academic progress of her three charges to evaluate her Swanburne education and determine the future of the school. Now Penelope's job with the Incorrigibles is at risk.
Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a governess trained at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, takes the three Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place to London, England, and learns they are under a curse.
Raised in the jungle, Mowgli, a man-cub, survives with his adoptive wolf family and other beloved animal friends while outmaneuvering the vicious tiger, Shere Khan.
Long ago in Nowhere, Texas, Mama and Papa Upagainstit agree to take in the wild baby their five children find in a passing tumbleweed, despite the objections of the one who used to be "the littlest-of-all girl.".
Using sophisticated computer technology, a fifteen-year-old girl--who has been raised by dolphins--records her thoughts about her reintroduction to the human world.
based on the true story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron
Gerstein, Mordicai
2002
Relates the story of a boy who grew up like a wild animal in the forests of France and was later captured and studied by doctors in Paris, but never became completely civilized.
A baby boy, left alone in the African jungle after the deaths of his parents is adopted by an ape, whose own infant has died, and raised to manhood without ever seeing another human being.
