Eleven-year-old Olive and her parents have just moved to a weird old house, where Olive has noticed things moving inside the artwork on the walls and where cats have darted out of secret places to talk to her. Soon Olive finds that she can climb into the paintings. She also discovers a dark secret: the original owner of the house came from "a line of powerful witches" and "learned to trap living people in paintings." Black-and-white illustrations.
Title alpha The Shadows: The Books of Elsewhere, Volume 1
Level Mystery/Adventure Elementary Plus
Pages Count 224
Summary When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats.
Topics Old houses. Paintings. Mysteries. Secrets. Cats. Magic. Eyeglasses. Jewelry. Witches and witchcraft. Murder. Shadows.
Lexile 770L
Trim Size 5 1/2" x 8 1/4"
JLG Span Spring
Language English
Publication date 2010-05-31
JLG Release Date Aug 2010
Minimum grade 3
Maximum grade 5
Reading level Elementary
Format Print
Mystery/Adventure Elementary Plus (Grades 3-5)
Mystery/Adventure Elementary Plus
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