Solomon Macaroni and the Cousin Catastrophe

Ashleigh Barton

• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9780702267017
• Year: 2022

You've never met a vampire like Solomon Macaroni before – he's friendly, polite and makes a mean tofu bolognese. Understandably, when his parents go on a one-hundred-year cruise without him, Solomon is not impressed. Especially because it means having to stay in creepy Transylvania with his six cousins, who are the rudest and naughtiest vampires in existence. (Well, apart from Lucy. He likes her.) Not even his uncle, Count Dracula, the oldest vampire in the world, can stop their pranks. But when his cousins venture into the spooky Wildwood on a dangerous mission, Solomon reluctantly agrees to help Lucy rescue them. In the forest, Solomon must draw on all he knows – about old magic, wet wipes and the importance of a well-timed entrance – to save his catastrophic cousins and possibly the world. A fang-tastic tale about loving your family, even when they drive you batty.

Table of contents

• Author Biography
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Chapter One: A Hundred Years’ Worth of Stuff
• Chapter Two: Not What You Were Expecting
• Chapter Three: To the Beach, Please
• Chapter Four: A Disgusting Shade of Magenta
• Chapter Five: Kindly Be Seated
• Chapter Six: What in Frankenstein’s Name Was That?
• Chapter Seven: Snitches Get Stitches
• Chapter Eight: How Bad Is It?
• Chapter Nine: We Need to Talk
• Chapter Ten: Volume 8223: Val–Ves
• Chapter Eleven: Not. A. Word.
• Chapter Twelve: It’s Tough Being Good
• Chapter Thirteen: For the Love of Frankenstein, Don’t
• Chapter Fourteen: Throw Up or Die
• Chapter Fifteen: Just Shadows
• Chapter Sixteen: Wait Here to Die
• Chapter Seventeen: The Original Vampire
• Chapter Eighteen: Words Starting with R
• Chapter Nineteen: Really Fast and Really Strong and Really Hungry
• Chapter Twenty: WWSD?
• Chapter Twenty-One: Your Most Prized Possession
• Chapter Twenty-Two: Pure Intentions
• Chapter Twenty-Three: All-You-Can-Eat
• Chapter Twenty-Four: Not Bad for an Amateur
• Acknowledgements
• Imprint Page