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An edition of The House with a Clock in Its Walls (1973)

The House with a Clock in Its Walls

Movie Tie-In Edition (1)

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  • ★★★★ 4.31 ·
  • 16 Ratings
  • 163 Want to read
  • 12 Currently reading
  • 31 Have read

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, watching magic is enough. Then Lewis experiments with magic himself and unknowingly resurrects the former owner of the house: a woman named Serenna Izard. It seems that Serenna 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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Publisher
Puffin Books
Language
English
Pages
179

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Subjects
Fiction, Mystery, Gothic, Children's stories, Juvenile fiction, Magicians, clocks, Halloween
People
Isaac Izard, Lewis Barnavelt, Jonathan Barnavelt, Florence Zimmermann, Selenna Izard, Tarby Corrigan
Places
New Zebedee, Michigan
Times
1948

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2018, Puffin Books
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The House With a Clock in Its Walls
2018, Piccadilly Press
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The House with a Clock in Its Walls
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Kevin et les magiciens: La Pendule D'Halloween
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La Pendule d'Halloween
2001, Editions du Rocher
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The House With a Clock in Its Walls
1993, Puffin Books
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The House with a Clock in Its Walls
1973, Dial Books for Young Readers
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First Sentence

"Lewis Barnavelt fidgeted and wiped his sweaty palms on the seat of the bus that was roaring toward New Zebedee."

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
1973, 2002

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
[Fic]
Library of Congress
P27.B413Ho 1993

The Physical Object

Format
paperback
Pagination
179p.
Number of pages
179

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32488604M
ISBN 10
0451481283
ISBN 13
9780451481283
LCCN
92026794
OCLC/WorldCat
1048899765
Goodreads
39402843

Work Description

Lewis had always wanted to live in a house like Uncle Jonathan's -- full of marble fireplaces and secret passageways and dozens of unused, unexplored rooms. And living with Uncle Jonathan, a real wizard, was full of fun and surprises.

But while Uncle Jonathan practiced funny and comfortable white magic, the original owner of the old house, Isaac Izard, had been an evil sorcerer. He had devised a plan for bringing about the end of the world. Somewhere in the walls of the house he had hidden a clock. Every night Lewis and Uncle Jonathan could hear it ticking -- sometimes loud, sometimes soft -- marking off the minutes until doomsday.

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Lewis Barnavelt fidgeted and wiped his sweaty palms on the seat of the bus that was roaring toward New Zebedee.
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