**Lemony Snicket meets Roald Dahl in this "wickedly funny" (Kirkus
Reviews), deliciously macabre, and highly illustrated sequel to The
Beast and the Bethany in which Bethany and Ebenezer try to turn over a
new leaf, only to have someone--or something--thwart them at every
turn.
Once upon a very badly behaved time, 511-year-old Ebenezer kept a beast
in his attic. He would feed the beast all manner of objects and
creatures and in return the beast would vomit him up expensive presents.
But then the Bethany arrived.
Now notorious prankster Bethany, along with her new feathery friend
Claudette, is determined that she and Ebenezer are going to de-beast
their lives and Do Good. But Bethany finds that being a former prankster
makes it hard to get taken on for voluntary work. And Ebenezer secretly
misses the beast's vomity gifts. And neither of them is all that sure
what "good people" do anyway.
Then there's Claudette, who's not been feeling herself recently. Has she
eaten something that has disagreed with her?