Greg Call
Author
Series
Sixty-eight rooms adventures volume 1
Language
English
Description
Ruthie thinks nothing exciting will ever happen to her until her sixth-grade class visits the Art Institute of Chicago, where she and her best friend Jack discover a magic key that shrinks them to the size of gerbils and allows them to explore the Thorne Rooms--the collection of sixty-eight miniature rooms from various time periods and places--and discover their secrets.
Author
Series
House of secrets (Chris Columbus) volume 2
Language
English
Description
Cordelia, Brendan, and Eleanor Walker, aged fifteen to eight, must rely on a mysterious book to face the Wind Witch and her father, the Storm King, who have kidnapped Dr. and Mrs. Walker and brought them to a strange world of magic.
Author
Series
Book of Storms volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When strange shadows appear over Danny's town, draining pepole of all color and hope, Danny must overcome his fear, once again, to save the world from the monstrous Sammael.
5) Kringle
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In the fifth century A.D., as order retreats from Britain with the departing Roman Army, orphaned, twelve-year-old Kringle determines to rescue his beloved guardian from the evil goblins who terrorize the countryside by kidnapping and enslaving humans and, in the process, with the help of elves and others along the way, discovers his true destiny.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When shadow creatures search for a secret cache of starstuff that fell to London many centuries ago, Wendy Darling employs the help of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys to protect the Sword of Mercy--the key that unlocks the vault where the starstuff is hidden.
Author
Series
Sixty-eight rooms adventures volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A magical coin coin leads sixth-graders Ruthie and Jack to 1753 Massachusetts and to Jack's pirate ancestor when they return to the Art Institute of Chicago's miniature Thorne Rooms on a mission to restore an African American family's reputation.
Author
Series
House of secrets (Chris Columbus) volume 3
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
With their last adventure just barely over, the Walker kids thought life could finally go back to normal. They escaped Dahlia Kristoff, the evil Wind Witch, yet again, and this time, they managed to leave with a mysterious treasure map, recovered from their encounter with the Nazis. But things don't remain calm for long...their friend the colossus Fat Jagger turns up in San Francisco Bay, and he's in danger. With the police closing in, the Walkers...
Author
Series
Book of Storms volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his parents disappear after a fierce storm, eleven-year-old Danny, unaccustomed to acts of bravery, comes to their rescue after finding a valuable shard of wood that enables him to talk to plants and animals and battle terrifyingly powerful enemies, including the demonic Sammael.
Author
Series
Sixty-eight rooms adventures volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ruthie and Jack thought that their adventures in the Thorne Rooms were over . . . until miniatures from the rooms start to disappear. Is it the work of the art thief who's on the loose in Chicago? Or has someone else discovered the secret of the Thorne Rooms' magic? Ruthie and Jack's quest to stop the thief takes them from modern day Chicago to 1937 Paris to antebellum South Carolina. But as more items disappear, including the key that allows them...