The House With a Clock in Its Walls

Name: The House With a Clock in Its Walls
Rating: 3.6666666666666665 (54 reviews)
Author: John Bellairs
ISBN: 9780140363364

by John Bellairs

3.7

(54 ratings)

184 pages1973Puffin BooksISBN 9780140363364

Fantasy Young Adult Classics Adventure

About this book

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

Publication Details

Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 1973
Pages: 184
ISBN: 9780140363364
Language: en

About John Bellairs

<a href="http://bellairsia.com">John Bellairs</a> (1938–1991) was an American novelist working primarily in the Gothic genre. He is best-known for the children's classic The House with a Clock in its Walls 1973) and for the pathbreaking fantasy novel The Face in the Frost (1969). Bellairs held a bachelor's degree from Notre Dame University and a master's in English from the University of Chicago. He combined writing and teaching from 1963 to 1971, including a year at <a href="http://shimer.edu">Shimer College</a> that coincided with that school's storied <a href="http://www.bellairsia.com/the_life/il/gis.html">Grotesque Internecine Struggle</a>. After 1971, he took up writing as his full-time work. (from <a href="http://shimercollege.wikia.com/John_Bellairs">Shimer College Wiki</a>)