John Bellairs
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"Living with his grandparents gives Johnny Dixon a lot of time to find trouble. Or adventure. Or is it both? In this, the first Johnny Dixon mystery, our young hero hears the spine-tingling story of Father Baart, a madman who haunts the town's church. At first, Johnny does not believe in ghosts, but when he takes a scroll and a small Egyptian figurine from the church basement, all that changes. Soon, a mysterious stranger gives him a ring, and Johnny...
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Johnny Dixon and Professor Childermass are visiting a New Hampshire inn, and inside that inn is a clock. It s called the Childermass Clock. Inside the clock there is a tiny dollhouse room, an exact replica of the professor s childhood home. And on one of the shelves in that tiny room is a tiny skull. Inside that skull is something evil. In this third Johnny Dixon mystery, Johnny takes the skull to try to solve the murder of the professor s granduncle,...
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Lewis Barnavelt series volume 3
Pub. Date
1993
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Following clues in a mysterious deathbed letter, Rose, Rita and a friendly witch, Mrs. Zimmerman, are lured into the sinister world of the occult.
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Lewis Barnavelt series volume 1
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A boy goes to live with his magician uncle in a mansion that has a clock hidden in the walls which is ticking off the minutes until doomsday.
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Lewis Barnavelt series volume 5
Pub. Date
1993
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Lewis Barnavelt and his uncle are in England, visiting a cousin at Barnavelt Manor. Lewis accidentally unleashes a maniacal ghost.
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Lewis Barnavelt series volume 4
Pub. Date
1994, c1993
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Rose Rita Pottinger and Mrs. Zimmermann are transported back to 1828 to save the Weiss family from being destroyed by a wicked wizard.
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Lewis Barnavelt series volume 2
Pub. Date
[1975]
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A painfully overweight sixth grade boy receives a magic amulet which brings him luck, but also terrifying side effects.
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Lewis Barnavelt series volume 6
Pub. Date
c1995
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Lewis Barnavelt and Rose Rita Pottinger are faced with a dilemma when their discovery of an unpublished opera score unleashes a wicked sorcerer who plans to rule the world by bringing back the dead.
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[2020]
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After losing his parents, Lewis Barnavelt goes to live with his uncle Jonathan and discovers that not only is his uncle a warlock, but they must find a clock hidden in the house by an evil wizard that is counting down to the end of the world; a "ghost therapist" is hired to exorcise the ghosts in an old house so the owner can search for its fabled treasure, but the ghosts have other ideas.
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Lewis Barnavelt series volume 12
Pub. Date
[2008]
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In Michigan in the mid-1950s, Lewis Barnavelt is convinced that the series of accidents he and his uncle are experiencing are the result of a curse by a mysterious, hooded figure that may be part of his uncle's past.
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Lewis Barnavelt series volume 8
Pub. Date
c2000
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Lewis Barnavelt tries to avert disaster when the destruction of an old bridge threatens to release a diabolical force, the legacy of a long-dead evil magician.