The Shadows (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780142418727)

For fans of Small Spaces, Coraline, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and James Howe's Bunnicula classics comes the first book in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Books of Elsewhere series.

This house is keeping secrets . . .

When eleven-year-old Olive and her parents move into the crumbling mansion on Linden Street and find it filled with mysterious paintings, Olive knows the place is creepy--but it isn't until she encounters its three talking cats that she realizes there's something darkly magical afoot. Then Olive finds a pair of antique spectacles in a dusty drawer and discovers the most peculiar thing yet: She can travel inside the house's spooky paintings to a world that's strangely quiet . . . and eerily sinister. But in entering Elsewhere, Olive has been ensnared in a mystery darker and more dangerous than she could have imagined, confronting a power that wants to be rid of her by any means necessary. With only the cats and an unusual boy she meets in Elsewhere on her side, it's up to Olive to save the house from the shadows, before the lights go out for good.

Author: Jacqueline West
ISBN-10: 0142418722
ISBN-13: 9780142418727
Publisher: Puffin Books
Language: English
Published: 06/14/2011
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 7.67h x 5.05w x 0.72d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.1
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 137299 / Shadows

Award: Minnesota Book Award - Finalist
Award: Sasquatch Award - Nominee
Award: Massachusetts Children's Book Award - Nominee