Room of shadows / Ronald Kidd.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Chicago, Illinois : Albert Whitman & Company, 2017Description: 238 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780807568057 (hardback)
- 0807568058 (hardback)
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| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Kidd Ronald | Available | 33111008804755 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Nominee: 2018 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award Finalist--Best Juvenile
Edgar Allan Poe's greatest stories are coming to life, and it's not a good thing.
There's something odd about the house David Cray and his mom moved into following his parents' split. Sure, it's old and battered and a little off-kilter, but that's not all. With so many nooks and crannies, it seems like the walls were built to keep things hidden--or maybe from getting out. David's suspicions are confirmed when he uncovers a secret room that looks like it hasn't been touched in ages. Inside, an ancient desk and carving of a raven beckon to him. Suddenly, disaster seems to follow him everywhere, and he starts to notice connections between the terrible events happening around him and the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Has David unleashed a dark force by opening the room? Or has the room awakened something in David that he doesn't recognize?
Angry at the changes in his life after his father leaves, including moving with his mother to a creepy old house in downtown Baltimore, eighth-grader David Cray unknowingly awakens Edgar Allen Poe's spirit, who feeds on David's rage to re-enact dreadful details of the ninetenth-century author's most famous stories.