Lauren Oliver. (2016). Curiosity House: The Screaming Statue. Unabridged HarperCollins.

Lauren Oliver. 2016. Curiosity House: The Screaming Statue. HarperCollins.

Lauren Oliver, Curiosity House: The Screaming Statue. HarperCollins, 2016.

Lauren Oliver. Curiosity House: The Screaming Statue. Unabridged HarperCollins, 2016.

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     Lauren Oliver is the cofounder of media and content development company Glasstown Entertainment, where she serves as the President of Production.

     She is also the New York Times bestselling author of the YA novels Replica, Vanishing Girls, Panic, and the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem, which have been translated into more than thirty languages. The film rights to both Replica and Lauren's bestselling first novel, Before I Fall, were acquired by Awesomeness Films. Before I Fall was adapted into a major motion picture starring Zoey Deutch. It debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017, garnering a wide release from Open Road Films that year.

     Oliver is a 2012 E. B. White Read-Aloud Award nominee for her middle-grade novel Liesl & Po, as well as author of the middle-grade fantasy novel The Spindlers and The Curiosity House series, co-written with H.C. Chester. She has written one novel for adults, Rooms.

     Oliver co-founded Glasstown Entertainment with poet and author Lexa Hillyer. Since 2010, the company has developed and sold more than fifty-five novels for adults, young adults, and middle-grade readers. Some of its recent titles include the New York Times bestseller Everless, by Sara Holland; the critically acclaimed Bonfire, authored by the actress Krysten Ritter; and The Hunger by Alma Katsu, which received multiple starred reviews and was praised by Stephen King as "disturbing, hard to put down" and "not recommended...after dark."

     Oliver is a narrative consultant for Illumination Entertainment and is writing features and TV shows for a number of production companies and studios.

     Oliver received an academic scholarship to the University of Chicago, where she was elected Phi Beta Kappa. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from New York University.

     www.laurenoliverbooks.com.

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In this second book in the exceptional Curiosity House series by bestselling author Lauren Oliver and shadowy recluse H. C. Chester, four extraordinary children must avenge their friend's death, try to save their home, and unravel the secrets of their past . . . before their past unravels them.

Pippa, Sam, Thomas, and Max are happy to be out of harm's way now that the notorious villain Nicholas Rattigan is halfway across the country in Chicago. But unfortunately their home, Dumfreys's Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders, is in danger of closing its doors forever.

But their troubles only get worse. The four friends are shocked when their beloved friend, famous sculptor Siegfried Eckleberger, is murdered. As they investigate, they find clues that his death may be tied to the murder of a rich and powerful New York heiress, as well as to their own pasts.

This is the second book in the series and so boasts many wondrous and mysterious things inside, such as:

Howie, the "Human Owl," whose head turns just about all the way around

A mean but important house cat

Some perfectly ghastly wax sculptures

A very thin boy named Chubby

An awful mechanical leg

It continues not to have:

A cautionary tale about running with scissors

A list of time-consuming chores

Nutritious and decidedly not delicious vegetables

A perfectly sweet bedtime story about a wayward bunny

Two wet kisses on the cheek from your aunt Mildred

Learn more about the series online at www.thecuriosityhouse.com.

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     March 15, 2016
     Sam, Thomas, Max, and Pippa are in danger of losing the only home they've ever known, in Depression-era New York City. Their strange, unusual skills are valued at Dumfrey's Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders, but the museum is struggling to survive. Several displays have been destroyed, and there is dissention that leads many of the inhabitants to jump ship amid mysterious accidents. When a beloved friend and supporter is murdered, the children are determined to find answers. They employed their skills in series opener The Shrunken Head (2015), but the stakes are even higher now. There are more murders, museum mayhem, skulduggery, kidnappings, and danger at every turn. All the while the four young heroes are concerned that their evil archenemy, Rattigan, is behind it all. A large cast of mostly one-dimensional, mostly white characters moves in and out of the tale, providing clues and hints as well as many red herrings in what turns out to be a distracting subplot. Oliver and Chester keep a somewhat tighter rein this time, allowing some insight into the children's emotions and growing pains and providing one new character, newsboy Chubby, with a bit of substance. When all seems to be resolved, a very unlikely twist allows for yet another series entry. Strained and derivative, without sufficient depth to compensate. (Historical fiction. 9-12)

     COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     March 15, 2016
     Grades 4-7 Having narrowly escaped the clutches of Professor Rattigan in Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head (2015), the children of Dumfrey's Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders are finally starting to feel back to normal. Telepath Pippa can sometimes read more than what's in people's pockets; Max's knife throwing is on point (mostly); Sam is like a mini Lenny from Of Mice and Men, with his incredible strength and desire for a pet; and Thomas' contortions get him intoand out ofsome tight situations. In a ploy to drum up business for the museum, Mr. Dumfrey decides to re-create the crime of the century: the recent murder of a New York City heiress. Tensions rise among the four orphans as a newcomer joins their ranks, Rattigan poses a continued threat, and another murder touches their lives. Could the two deaths be linked? Oliver and Chester have created another quirky middle-grade mystery that will have no trouble drawing a crowd. Occasionally, plot points are belabored, but most readers will be too caught up in the unusual characters and intrigue to mind.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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     July 6, 2015
     “Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls: step right up and don’t be shy. You must not—you absolutely cannot!—put this book down.” With this bit of honest advertising, so begins this captivating series opener from Oliver (The Spindlers) and Chester (a pseudonym for Oliver’s father, author Harold Schechter). A curiosity museum in financial trouble, “the only place on earth where four extraordinary children like Thomas, Sam, Pippa, and Max could fit in,” faces bigger problems after a string of accidents and murders are linked to a shrunken head in its collection. Using talents of contortion, strength, mind-reading, and knife-throwing, the four children attempt to save the only home they know, while contending with dangers lurking all over 1930s New York City, from seedy reporters to mad scientists. A quick-paced plot is bolstered by the bonds of friendship these unusual yet endearing children form as they try to solve a mystery greater—and more personal—than they ever expected. Final art not seen by PW. Ages 8–12. Author’s agent: (for Oliver) Stephen Barbara, Inkwell Management; (for Chester) David Patterson, Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency.

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     July 1, 2016
     In Head, the four exceptional children of Dumfrey's Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders find themselves in very real danger when a cursed shrunken head is stolen. In Statue, friends start turning up dead and the children fear the return of evil Professor Rattigan (from their first adventure). Set in Depression-era NYC, these are quaint mysteries with a quirky Miss Peregrine'slike edge.

     (Copyright 2016 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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Pippa, Sam, Thomas, and Max are happy to be out of harm's way now that the notorious villain Nicholas Rattigan is halfway across the country in Chicago. But unfortunately their home, Dumfreys's Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders, is in danger of closing its doors forever.

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