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Watch Hollow: The Alchemist's Shadow by Gregory Funaro
5.0
We loved the first book and enjoyed the slightly spine-tingling antics Lucy, Oliver and two new kids are up to inorder to protect Blackford House from a new evil.
Two new kids, Agatha and Algernon Fujima arrive with their nanny, Bedelia Graves, claiming to be long-lost heirs to Blackford House.
Algernon doesn't talk, not since his parents' deaths, and he carries around a creepy doll, Kenny, he insists saved him in the accident that killed his parents. Kenny is much more than he appears, of course. Agatha is super-bright and figures out what Lucy and Oliver are hiding -- the animals in the clock and the clock powering Blackford House's magic.
But no sooner does Bedelia go poking around in the clock's utility closet than she's zapped and a new evil appears -- a Minotaur, raging like a bull through the house's strangely elongating corridors. Soon the smudged portrait of Edgar Blackford peels itself off the canvass and comes after the kids in what is now a rapidly growing and evolving Labyrinth.
I won't spoil how it ends, but Lucy, Oliver, Agatha and Algernon have to work together to figure out how to save the house, with a guest appearance from a very special sparkly creature we've only heard rumors of before this, even if it means destroying the clock's magic and restoring balance to the woods.
Enjoy!
Looking for more book suggestions for your 7th/8th grade classroom and students?
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Two new kids, Agatha and Algernon Fujima arrive with their nanny, Bedelia Graves, claiming to be long-lost heirs to Blackford House.
Algernon doesn't talk, not since his parents' deaths, and he carries around a creepy doll, Kenny, he insists saved him in the accident that killed his parents. Kenny is much more than he appears, of course. Agatha is super-bright and figures out what Lucy and Oliver are hiding -- the animals in the clock and the clock powering Blackford House's magic.
But no sooner does Bedelia go poking around in the clock's utility closet than she's zapped and a new evil appears -- a Minotaur, raging like a bull through the house's strangely elongating corridors. Soon the smudged portrait of Edgar Blackford peels itself off the canvass and comes after the kids in what is now a rapidly growing and evolving Labyrinth.
I won't spoil how it ends, but Lucy, Oliver, Agatha and Algernon have to work together to figure out how to save the house, with a guest appearance from a very special sparkly creature we've only heard rumors of before this, even if it means destroying the clock's magic and restoring balance to the woods.
Enjoy!
Looking for more book suggestions for your 7th/8th grade classroom and students?
Visit my blog for more great middle grade book recommendations, free teaching materials and fiction writing tips: https://amb.mystrikingly.com/