cover image The Perils of Peppermints

The Perils of Peppermints

Barbara Brooks Wallace. Atheneum Books, $16.95 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-689-85043-1

In the sequel to Peppermints in the Parlor, The Perils of Peppermints by Barbara Brooks Wallace, Emily has been sent to the terrifying Mrs. Spilking's Select Academy for Young Ladies. But what is the secret Mrs. Spilking doesn't want her to learn? And why is there a bowl of forbidden peppermints, just like those from Emily's time as a servant in Sugar Hill Hall?