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It is a sunny day in 1951 when Rose Rita and Mrs. Zimmermann enter the tunnel. When they emerge, it is snowing-and the year is 1828. "I'll admit," Mrs. Zimmermann tells her companion, "that finding a tunnel into the middle of winter isn't an ordinary occurrence, but neither is this an ordinary trip. We're looking for magic." For months, weird lights and ghostly images had swirled through the parlor in Mrs. Zimmermann's mansion. She suspected that the ghost of Granny Wetherbee, the old woman who had taught her witchery, was trying to call her for help. So Mrs. Zimmermann and her young friend Rose Rita set off for the Pennsylvania countryside where Granny had lived. They never dreamed their trip would maroon them in a strange world of long ago, where they would encounter a sorcerer more terrible than they could ever have imagined. Such an enchanting thriller could only come from John Bellairs, whose marvelously scary tales have been sending shivers through young people for decades ... Read more