John Bellairs

The House With a Clock In Its Walls (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrator: Gorey, Edward

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Young Readers Group
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Altersempfehlung: ab 8 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781101659717
• Artikelnr.: 44640648

Autorenporträt

John Anthony Bellairs (19381991) is an award-winning American author, perhaps best known for his fantasy novel The Face in the Frost. He is also the 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 Award and the American Library Association Children's Books of International Interest Award), The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb (which won the Edgar Allen Poe Award), and The Specter from the Magician's Museum (which won the New York Public Library "Best Books for the Teen Age" Award.