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Have you ever imagined what it would be like to babysit 100 brothers and sisters? Ribburta doesn't think that it will be that hard but what she doesn't realize is just how much trouble 100 siblings can get into. After a long day of babysitting, Ribburta decides to take a nap. What will happen when she takes her eyes off her younger siblings and danger approaches?

Ribburta and her friend, Redd, go to see the new fortune-teller. They soon realize the teller is a con artist who is trying to steal all of the squirrels’ nuts by hypnotizing them! They must come up with a plan to stop the squirrels from giving her their nuts. Will they be able to stop her in time?

The hot summer has brought several kinds of trouble to the monastery at Wickit, and Pip the orphan and Perfect the stone gargoyle find themselves up to their eyebrows in it all! What is the king's man really doing at Wickit? Will the Black Bog give up its secrets? And will the Beautiful Norse girl find Johan Shortleg's long-lost buried treasure?

"Stop them - they've stolen the King!" It was a nightmare that seemed to have no end. How on earth did the orphan Pip end up fleeing across medieval Fenland in the dead of night, with the King of England and a living, breathing, talking stone gargoyle called Perfect? Why was that man trying to kill them?

Ribburta wishes she could be a dancer like the rest of her family, but she has short legs that make it hard for her to dance. After her family is kidnapped by a greedy fox who wants the family to perform for him, she must find a way to trick him into letting her family go. Will she be able to save them?