B. B Wurge

Billy must save himself and his eccentric grandmother from a nefarious plot to steal the Manhattan townhouse where, years before, his paleontologist mother discovered a race of exotic creatures living underneath the basement, and then disappeared.

Nine-year-old Lobelia is a terribly spoiled pest until a visit from a magical being sends her soul into a stuffed monkey, and the only hope she has of becoming a girl again is to travel from New York to Paris to ask him for help.