Urn:lcp:ghostinmirror00bell:epub:2006ede5-98ea-456a-ad9a-017db4a05598 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier ghostinmirror00bell Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4fn4t40q Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780803713703Ġ803713703 Lccn 92018369 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL1715976M Openlibrary_edition John Bellairs (1938-1991) was an award-winning American author of many gothic mystery novels for children and young adults, including The House with a Clock in Its Walls, which received both the New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year Award and the ALA Children's Books of International Interest Award. (Fiction.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:48:27 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1131604 Boxid_2 CH119601 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st ed.
Though the deliciously ghastly climax suddenly comes to a halt so that the sorcerer can rehearse his motives and life story, the plot generally develops in a smooth and coherent fashion, driven along by a pair of active female characters.
Zimmerman's powers-not, of course, without negotiating plenty of cryptic instructions, apparitions, lurking evils, spells, and narrow escapes, plus a slavering demon or two. Together, the two rescue a Pennsylvania Dutch family from an evil sorcerer, uncover an old chest of Revolutionary War gold, and activate a crystal ball that restores Mrs. Having lost most of her magic in The Letter, The Witch and The Ring (1977), Florence Zimmerman travels back in time to recover it, taking along her friend Rose Rita Pottinger (14). It seems only appropriate that death has not brought an end to Bellairs's career and, happily, this posthumous collaboration has less of a thrown-together feel than his last few books.
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