When fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, accepts a position as governess at the fabulous Ashton estate, she has no idea what she is facing.
Instead of well-mannered aristocratic children, she finds three wild (as in never-bathed, living in the barn, howling) creatures who had been found roam ing wild in the nearby woods, apparently raised by wolves. Alexander nips
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to keep his siblings in line; Cassiopeia has a bark that is worse than her bite; and Beowulf is quite proficient at chasing squirrels. The children are labeled the Incorrigibles.
The three children were rescued by Lord Fredric Ashton, who considers them his property. It is Penelope's responsibility to train the three to be children, not wolves. On top of that, she is to educate them using the endless supply of platitudes she learned at the academy.
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