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Summary: enthralling, but with an inconsistency
Review: ... there is one plot inconsistency: Lewis receives the mysterious Latin message from the evil figure *before* he has read the incantation to invoke him!
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Summary: enthralling, but with an inconsistency
Review: ... there is one plot inconsistency: Lewis receives the mysterious Latin message from the evil figure *before* he has read the incantation to invoke him!
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Summary: Great book
Review: Good book for mystery lover
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Summary: A very well written little thriller!
Review: I bought this book for my 11 year old son and he has read it several times, he says he enjoyes this book more than the Harry Potter series and that is talking. The first time he read it he needed help with many of the words so I got to know the story pretty well, after lurking where he is not supposed to, Lewis Barnavelt awakens a terrifying demon who will take control over him and put his life in terrible danger. The books is extremely well written with a lot of details and very good characters, my son liked Rose Rita the best. I recommend this book to any parent who would like to reward their child with a good kid's thriller, my son Alex has it on his favorites list.
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Summary: I thought this was a good book
Review: I have reviewed several of Bellair's books and this was one of the best ones. I recommend it to anyone who likes a good mystery.Lewis was going on another of his adventures, but can he win?????
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Summary: wonderfull book
Review: I loved thid book beacuse of the magic used and it was exiting all the way threw the book..i recommend it to 7th graders like me!
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Summary: The Precursor to the Harry Potter Series(and so much better)
Review: I loved this book along with all of John Bellair's books growing up. It was the first book I did a book report on in elementary school, which was about 13 years ago. This story like the others is very gripping. It is a definate page turner, which is good for kids especially if as a parent you are trying to get your kids to read more. This story definately brought me confidence in life because I could see the characters who were kids like me facing conflicts of great magnitude. If they could face their conflicts, then I could face mine.
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Summary: This story will stay with you.
Review: I read this book 25 years ago, when I was 9. Since then, I have read thousands of books, but I remember this story, almost by heart. I did not know it was a series. I am going to buy everything by Bellairs, to read myself, and for my son, who will soon be old enough for this. I recommend this book heartily. Bellairs is quite the equal of Rowling. If Stephen King wrote youth horror, his charactorization and style would be close to this.
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Summary: One of the best Horror books ever
Review: I read this book in the 70s or early 80s. I was so frightened by it that I stored it under my sister's bed at night just to keep it out of my room and away from me. It scared me that much - It's very vivid. To this day, the smell of wet ashes reminds me of the book. I mean this all in the best way, of course. I was, perhaps, a little unprepared for the depth of spookiness found in this book, but now I realize that while it frightened the living daylights out of me, it also thrilled me. I credit this book and MacBeth (also read when far too young and impressionable) for my love of "unseen" psychological horror fiction today. Definitely talk with your child after they read this, though. You don't want them spooking at every imagined figure in the shadows.
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Summary: Good fun
Review: Lewis Barnavelt (introduced in THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS) is having problems. He's picked on by bullies and he's afraid his best friend, Rose Rita, doesn't respect him because he's not rough-and-tough. When he finds his great-grandfather's lucky coin, he starts wearing it, hoping it will bring him luck...only to discover that it's actually a powerful talisman and a sinister hooded figure is watching over him.This isn't quite up to the level that HOUSE was, but it's still a grand entertainment. We feel Lewis' pain and rage at being a target and at his inability to intervene when Rose Rita is attacked by bullies. Lewis' love/hate relationship with the talisman can also been seen as a symbol of drug addiction. It all ends well, with a good message about loyalty and a caution against using outside props (talismans or drugs). Next in the series: THE LETTER, THE WITCH AND THE RING.
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