The House with a Clock in Its Walls

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The House with a Clock in Its Walls

Reissued (1)
  • 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 witches! Lewis is thrilled. At first, watching magic is enough. Then Lewis experiments with magic himself and unknowingly resurrects the Cormer owner 01 the house: a woman named Serenna Izard. It seems that Serenna and her husband built a time- piece into the walls—a clock that could obliterate humankind. And only the Barnavelts can stop it!

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Publisher
BWI Bound
Language
English
Pages
179

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Edition Availability
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Casa con un Reloj en Sus Paredes
2018-09, Alfaguara
Paperback in Spanish - Primera edición
Cover of: The House with a Clock in Its Walls
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
2018, Puffin Books
paperback in English - Movie Tie-In Edition (1)
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The House With a Clock in Its Walls
2018, Piccadilly Press
paperback in English - printing (2)
Cover of: The House with a Clock in Its Walls
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
2004, BWI Bound
Library Binding in English - Reissued (1)
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Kevin et les magiciens: La Pendule D'Halloween
2003, Gallimard
paperback in French
Cover of: La Pendule d'Halloween
La Pendule d'Halloween
2001, Editions du Rocher
Paperback in French
Cover of: The House With a Clock in Its Walls
The House With a Clock in Its Walls
1993, Puffin Books
Paperback in English
Cover of: The House with a Clock in Its Walls
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
1980 11, Yearling
Paperback in English - 7th Dell Printing
Cover of: The House with a Clock in Its Walls
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
1973, Dial Books for Young Readers
Hardcover in English - printing (13)
Cover of: The House with a Clock in Its Walls
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
1973, Dial Press
Library Binding in English - Second printing

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Edition Notes

Copyright Date
1973

The Physical Object

Format
Library Binding
Pagination
179p.
Number of pages
179

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL39219563M
ISBN 10
1415550379
ISBN 13
9781415550373
OCLC/WorldCat
533513
Goodreads
61917527

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.

Excerpts

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

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