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Antonio S is a boy who knows all sorts of things. Scarrabo the Magnificent is a magician. Professor Kettering is a doctor. They live together at the top of a grand old house built long ago for a duke. But who is Theodore Guzman, the secretive old man who lives downstairs? What mysterious things does he know? It takes someone like Antonio S to find out.

A young Queen is sent gifts from her seven kingdoms around the world. She receives everything imaginable, from giraffes, monkeys and flamingos, to exotic fruits – but the fruit she desires most has never survived the long journey. Frustrated, she orders Bartlett the Explorer across the world to collect the fragile melidrop fruit and bring it back to court.