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What a surprise!
Excellent fiction, regardless of age

What's Waiting at Wellington Mansion
Bobby Diamond
Manufacturer: Amer Book Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Ages 9-12 | Children's Books | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1589820266

Book Description

What's Waiting at Wellington Mansion? is guaranteed to keep you turning pages past your bedtime! Tim knew starting fifth grade in a new place would be full of adventures, some fun and some scary. He never expected his grandparents' boarding house-and its peculiar guests-would be the biggest adventure of them all.

Witchcraft, magical powers, ghosts, a haunted mansion, and a villain bent on sacrificing an innocent victim to raise a malicious ghost from the dead...together they weave a tale so magical, you'll be sorry to find the mystery finally solved. And in the process, you'll learn something about the power of love, tolerance, and looking beyond appearances.

Customer Reviews:

What a surprise!.......2003-02-23

This fantastic adventure is great for anyone who can sit through to the end. The book took a little while to get exciting, but once you got to the exciting part, you can't put the book down. It's a must read tale of an average young boy living with his grandparents. But what he doesn't expect is an adventure! Besides the slightly difficult vocabulary, this book will surprise and amaze you once you find out what's waiting at Wellington Mansion!

Excellent fiction, regardless of age.......2002-12-16

"What's Waiting at Wellington Mansion?" (as it promised) kept me up reading well past my bedtime, and I'm well into my twenties!

Tim goes to live at his grandparents' boarding house, where he becomes obsessed with the haunting--and haunted--mansion where two twin sorcerers once killed one other, and as he investigates the mystery behind the magical events at Wellington Mansion, he finds answers in his grandparents' mysterious boarders, his beautiful new friend Christine, and in his own family tree.

This is a terrific kid's book that's attentive to its young audience in its instructive vocabulary and beautifully structured mystery, but it's also suitable for adults (from the Gothically inclined to fans of old Lauren Bacall films noirs) looking to enjoy a clever story and well-shaped, nuanced characters. In this sense, "What's Waiting at Wellington Mansion?," like many of Roald Dahl's books (which share a macabre sense of humor with "Wellington Mansion"), works so well in its refusal to condescend to its young readership. It engages its readers in its plot, its characters, and its use of language without talking down to its characters or to its audence. Similarly, the book has strong lessons of tolerance, intelligence, and friendship, but it never moralizes or grand-stands on any kind of platform as it moves along swiftly. Indeed, it's not written as a children's book or as "juvenile fiction," but rather as a good, exciting story for its audience to enjoy--as I most certainly did.

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