Franklin Endicott and the Third Key
Tales from Deckawoo Drive Series
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Illustrator: Chris Van Dusen
Book 6 in the Tales from Deckawoo Drive series
Pages: 112
Published: 2021
Age: 6+
The latest tale from Deckawoo Drive is a balm for young worrywarts facing the unknown.
Welcome back to Deckawoo Drive for a sixth endearing installment in the companion series to Kate DiCamillo’s Mercy Watson series.
Frank Endicott is a worrier. He worries about lions, submarines, black holes, leprosy, and armadillos. He lists his worries alphabetically in a notebook and suffers vivid nightmares that even a certain neighborhood pig can’t dispatch. When he accompanies Eugenia Lincoln on an errand to duplicate a key at her favorite dark and dusty thrift shop, Frank earns fresh cause for alarm. Odd Buddy Lamp, the shop’s proprietor, has sent them home with the original key and its copy.
Can Frank come to terms with the mystery without buckling under his mounting dread? With a little help from friends (old and new), hot cocoa, and some classic short stories read aloud, the prognosis is good.
About the Tales from Deckawoo Drive Series
Books in series order
- 1.Leroy Ninker Saddles Up(2014)
- 2.Francine Poulet Meets the Ghost Raccoon(2015)
- 3.Where Are You Going, Baby Lincoln?(2016)
- 4.Eugenia Lincoln and the Unexpected Package(2017)
- 5.Stella Endicott and the Anything-Is-Possible Poem(2020)
- 6.Franklin Endicott and the Third Key(2021)
- 7.Mercy Watson Is Missing!(2023)
Reading age: 6+ years
This series should be read in order.
Yippie-i-oh! Saddle up for a spin-off series starring favourite characters from Kate DiCamillo's acclaimed Mercy Watson series.
Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse – until he meets Maybelline, that is, and then it's love at first sight. Maybelline loves spaghetti and sweet nothings, and she loves Leroy, too. But when Leroy forgets the third and final rule of caring for Maybelline, disaster ensues. Can Leroy wrestle fate to the ground, rescue the horse of his heart, and lasso loneliness for good?
Join Leroy, Maybelline, and a cast of familiar characters – Stella, Frank, Mrs. Watson, and everyone’s favorite porcine wonder, Mercy – for some hilarious and heartfelt horsing around on Deckawoo Drive.