Pub Date: September 30, 2014
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Code: 0870
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Physical Info: 0.33" H x 8.50" L x 5.50" W ( 0.41 lbs) 138 pages
BISAC Categories:
Young Adult Fiction | Horror | Fantasy | Contemporary | Paranormal Occult and Supernatural
Series: Johnny Dixon
Description: Fifty years after its invention Johnny's friend Professor Childermass puts back together the world's first baseball-playing robot, only to discover that he has reawakened an evil killing machine.
Brief description: John Bellairs is beloved as a master of Gothic young adult novels and fantasies. His series about the adventures of Lewis Barnavelt and his uncle Jonathan, which includes The House with a Clock in Its Walls, is a classic. He also wrote a series of novels featuring the character Johnny Dixon. Among the titles in that series are The Curse of the Blue Figurine; The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt; and The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull. His stand-alone novel The Face in the Frost is also regarded as a fantasy classic, and among his earlier works are St. Fidgeta and Other Parodies and The Pedant and the Shuffly.
Bellairs was a prolific writer, publishing more than a dozen novels before his untimely death in 1991.Review Quotes: Praise for John Bellairs
"I have just spent a long rainy weekend buried under a quilt, devouring salty peanuts and a stack of John Bellairs mysteries. It was heaven . . . Much like other mysteries, these short works of the imagination are designed and constructed with the fine storytelling craft of an adult master. . . . Bellairs moves the action at a furious clip. . . . [These] hair-raising adventures also excite readers because they involve believable and likable characters with whom we can empathize in moments of danger . . . An endearing detective team." --Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times