Stephen Gilpin

Meet the Deadlies: they are sweet, polite, and just happen to be highly toxic brown recluse spiders! After being chased out of house after house by terrified humans and angry exterminators, this misunderstood family just wants a quiet place to spin their webs in peace. They think they have finally found the perfect home in the Rare Books room of the Boston Public Library. The librarian doesn't mind them, and there are countless fascinating books to explore. But their cozy new life is suddenly interrupted when a sneaky human thief starts stealing the library's most valuable treasures. Teaming up with a friendly walnut orb-weaving spider named Buster, the Deadlies decide to take matters into their own eight legs. Can these tiny, toxic heroes spin a web clever enough to catch a criminal, or will they be forced to pack up and hit the road once again?