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

The House With a Clock in Its Walls

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

When orphaned Lewis Barnavelt comes to live with his Uncle Jonathan, he is amazed to find out there is a wizard in his family!

Lewis experiments with Uncle Jonathan's spells and uncovers the mystery behind the ticking that he can hear throughout the house, sometimes loud, sometimes quiet, sometimes fast, sometimes slow. It's an evil clock and it could destroy humankind.

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Piccadilly Press
Language
English
Pages
178

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Subjects
Magic, Fiction, Children's stories, Juvenile fiction, Magicians, Juvenile works, Juvenile audience, clocks, Halloween, tombs, end time, Witches, Clocks and watches, fiction, Supernatural, fiction, Mystery and detective stories, Barnavelt, lewis (fictitious character), fiction, Pottinger, rose rita (fictitious character), fiction, Children's fiction, Magic, fiction, Time travel, fiction, Michigan, fiction, Clocks and watches
People
Isaac Izard, Lewis Barnavelt, Jonathan Barnavelt, Florence Zimmermann, Selenna Izard, Tarby Corrigan
Places
New Zebedee, Michigan

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The House with a Clock in Its Walls
2018, Puffin Books
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Casa con un Reloj en Sus Paredes
2018-09, Alfaguara
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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
2004, BWI Bound
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Kevin et les magiciens: La Pendule D'Halloween
2003, Gallimard
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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
1980 11, Yearling
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The House with a Clock in Its Walls
1973, Dial Press
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1973, Dial Books for Young Readers
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Copyright Date
2018

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Format
paperback
Pagination
178p.
Number of pages
178

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31445061M
ISBN 10
1848127723
ISBN 13
9781848127722
Goodreads
60604278

Work Description

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