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... don't have the heart to tell him that she's not looking for them anymore.)
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... The House with a Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs Sounds like it could be possibly be The House With The Clock In Its Walls by John Bellairs? ... )
37. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt (388)
38. The Stardust Lounge - Deborah Digges (240)
39. The House With a Clock in Its Walls - John Bellairs (179)
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42. The Almost Moon - Alice Sebold ... ... )
37. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt (388)
38. The Stardust Lounge - Deborah Digges (240)
39. The House With a Clock in Its Walls - John Bellairs (179)
40. My Friend is Sad - Mo Willems (57)
41. Duma Key - Steven King (611)
42. The Almost Moon - Alice Sebold ... ... of books for young people:
Superfudge, by Judy Blume:
http://jlshall.blogspot.com/2008/09/review-superfudge.html
The House with a Clock in Its Walls, by John Bellairs
http://jlshall.blogspot.com/2008/10/review-house-with-clock-in-its-walls.html
#38 The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs
Illustrated by Edward Gorey. First of the Lewis Barnavelt series of gothic horror novels for young readers. Orphaned when his parents are killed in an auto accident, Lewis comes to live with his Uncle Jonathan, who turns out to be a ... ... Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon (342,745 Ways to Herd Cats Challenge; Man-Booker Challenge)
The House with a Clock in Its Walls, by John Bellairs (RIP III Challenge)
Hotel DuLac, by Anita Brookner (Man-Booker Challenge)
The Road to Lichfield, by Penelope Li ... Since I just read The House With a Clock in Its Walls as a possible match to one I'm looking for, I can tell you about it. There's really only one little boy (Lewis), who is now living with his uncle, a warlock. At one point Lewis tries to impress another boy by taking the two of them to ... The description really does sound familiar. My first reaction was that it could be The House With a Clock in its Walls or The Egypt Game but when I went to the pages to refresh my memory of the stories (it has been a very long while since I read them), they didn't seem to fit.
However, I ... ... titles:
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
The Missing Persons League
The Westing Game
ETA: The House With a Clock in its Walls The House with a Clock In its Walls by John Bellairs
A Practical Course in Horology by Harold Caleb Kelly
Fire Watch by Connie Willis
Treasures of Time by Penelope Lively
The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene ... a price too expensive to justify it. I got it second-hand for 40p yesterday!
In search of Adam by Caroline Smailes
The House with a Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
In The Wake by Per Petterson
The Secret of Lost Thing ... ... deal of the fun here is the mock-Victorian prose and illustrations combined with a distinctly modern sense of humor.
The House with a Clock in its Walls and others by John Bellairs are about boy heroes, often with adult mentors who know that All Is Not As It Seems, caught up in scary ... The house with a clock in its walls is in New Zebedee, Wisconsin if I recall correctly.
John Bellairs' series generally seem to be set in that part of the country, though not necessarily Wisconsin in particular. I unsuggested The House with a Clock in its Walls and got a number of books I own but haven't catalogued, like Down and Out in Paris and London. And on the unsuggester page is the pairing of Orientalism with Ella Enchanted, both of which I loved. I feel like the unsuggestions don't quite ... I remember adoring a number of Bellairs when little, including The Face in the Frost and The House with the Clock in its Walls. Spooky stuff. Like so much from childhood I'm frightened to look at it again. It may be crap for all I know.
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