The House with a Clock in Its Walls

by John Bellairs

library binding, 179 pages

English language

Published May 15, 2004 by BWI Bound.

ISBN:: 978-1-4155-5037-3
OCLC Number:: 533513

(8 reviews)

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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4 stars

I read this thanks to the movie adaptation with Jack Black and a convenient daily deal at Audible. It was an interesting change of pace because it doesn’t fit the norms and tropes of modern young adult books. The main character isn’t super-capable or the chosen one – he’s just a normal kid caught up in supernatural weirdness who makes the occasional disastrous mistake. Apparently it’s the first in a series of a dozen or so books, so I might have to pick up the next volume sometime soon.