The Curse of the Blue Figurine (Johnny Dixon)

Name: The Curse of the Blue Figurine (Johnny Dixon)
Rating: 3.857142857142857 (7 reviews)
Author: John Bellairs
ISBN: 9780142402580

by John Bellairs

3.9

(7 ratings)

200 pages1983PuffinISBN 9780142402580

Fantasy Young Adult Classics Adventure Fiction Mystery Juvenile Fiction Detective and mystery stories

About this book

Johnny Dixon is plunged into a terrifying mystery-adventure when he removes a blue figurine called a ushabt. from church.

Publication Details

Publisher: Puffin
Published: 1983
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9780142402580
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>)