The Shadows
By Jacqueline West
- Release Date: 2010-06-15
- Genre: Monsters & Ghosts in Kids Fiction
Description
For fans of Small Spaces, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and James Howe's Bunnicula classics comes the first book in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Books of Elsewhere series.
This house is keeping secrets . . .
When eleven-year-old Olive and her parents move into the crumbling mansion on Linden Street and find it filled with mysterious paintings, Olive knows the place is creepy—but it isn’t until she encounters its three talking cats that she realizes there’s something darkly magical afoot. Then Olive finds a pair of antique spectacles in a dusty drawer and discovers the most peculiar thing yet: She can travel inside the house’s spooky paintings to a world that’s strangely quiet . . . and eerily sinister. But in entering Elsewhere, Olive has been ensnared in a mystery darker and more dangerous than she could have imagined, confronting a power that wants to be rid of her by any means necessary. With only the cats and an unusual boy she meets in Elsewhere on her side, it’s up to Olive to save the house from the shadows, before the lights go out for good.
Reviews
So Good
5By ShokoohThis is such a good book- i am not even in to reading & I have been reading for such a long time now... You should really get it😃Best book ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5By ¥£€ doodle yo fallThis book is amazing and full of secrets!!!!!!!!!LVERY Interesting!!!!!!
5By Cookie Monster0108I'm only 9 years old,and I'm obsessed with these books, I really like Harvey he's the bestest cat EVER!!!!!!!!! I love him. I hope to get the series of books! Every night I stay up late to read some more chapters. This book is so shocking and interesting that you can't get your hands off the book! Well anyway I just wanted to say it was a VERY good book. 😜😜😜😀😀😀😺😸 I 💘 IT!!!! Love, Liana Tee-HEE!!Scary, but addictive!
4By Bjd4We are now addicts of the series, and glad we finished the book, but my almost-10-year-old daughter was so scared she would keep reading past her bedtime, and then have nightmares! It's all good now, and she finds it a "good" scary now, but I would have liked a heads-up that it was going to really scare her! Well-written, engrossing, page-turning series! If your child likes adventure with a good scare, this is a great series for her (or him!)!!Elsewhere
5By Awesome puppy loverThe book was awesome I just finished reading it about 20 minutes ago u have to read its the most amazing book ever at first it's not the greatest but then it amazing if u have not read it u have got to buy it now!People!!!
5By This book is AWESOMEYou have to read this book! I stayed up all night reading The Shadows and I just couldn't stop. I even got little chills when I was reading all alone in my room thinking that something was going to come and scare me! Olive Dunwoody (main character) is very curious and when she finds these magical spectacles she learns that they give her the power to go through paintings. There are also 3 cats (Haratio, Harvey, and Leopold) that guard the house and help Olive learn about the mysterious paintings. They also get her out of some sticky situations. I thought it was a very great book and I hope you will read and enjoy it!!!!!
