The House With a Clock In Its Walls

Authors: Bellairs, John
Lexile: 800,
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
BISAC/Subject: JUV018000, JUV028000, JUV037000
ISBN: 9781101659717, Related ISBNs: 014036336X, 0142402575, 0451481283, 0803738218, 0803738234
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 192,
Audience: Children/juvenile
Synopsis: A haunting gothic tale by master mysery writer John Bellairs--soon to be a major motion picture starring Cate Blanchett and Jack Black!

"The House With a Clock in Its Walls will cast its spell for a long time."--The New York Times Book Review


When Lewis Barnavelt, an orphan. comes to stay with his uncle Jonathan, he expects to meet an ordinary person. But he is wrong. Uncle Jonathan and his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Zimmermann, are both magicians! Lewis is thrilled. At first, watchng magic is enough. Then Lewis experiments with magic himself and unknowingly resurrects the former owner of the house: a woman named Selenna Izard. It seems that Selenna and her husband built a timepiece into the walls--a clock that could obliterate humankind. And only the Barnavelts can stop it!
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