Meanwhile, Lambert is kept in his room because he refuses to help so he does other inappropriate things. They carry stranded jellyfish back to the sea and hold an eel with scabies. On the island, Minette and Fabio are quickly put to work on the bed. When Dorothy is released from prison, Betty sends the spoiled Boo-Boo and Little One with her to the island to be looked after when she breaks her hip. Myrtle is forced to bring a boy named Lambert, whom she thinks is horrid, after he accidentally sniffs chloroform. Coral brings a boy named Fabio, originally from Brazil, who is learning to be an "English gentleman" at the horrible Graymarsh Towers. Etta kidnaps a young girl named Minette, whose constantly bickering parents are separated. They decide to go to London to "choose" (kidnap) children to help them. The three sisters take care of injured and sick creatures, but the work is getting too much for them as they get older. It was a Publishers Weekly bestseller and a School Library Journal Best Book of 2000. It was also published under the title Island of the Aunts. Monster Mission ( ISBN 9780525464846, 1999) is a children's book written by Eva Ibbotson.
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