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Plot summary Spellbound. Olive, the main character, is worried. After breaking the McMartins' enchanted spectacles in the first book, The Shadows, Olive has no way to get her friend Morton out of Elsewhere, the world in the McMartins' enchanted paintings. The house's three guardian cats, Horatio, Harvey, and Leopold, have been no help in this task.
Jun 9, 2010 · THE SHADOWS, a middle-grade paranormal novel, opens with a great line: “Ms. McMartin was definitely dead.”. The decedent leaves behind a huge old pile of a mansion, and as her nearest relative has just died in Shanghai of “a severe allergic reaction to a bowl of turtle and arsenic soup,” the house is put on the market.
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The Shadows is the first book in a fantasy series by Jacqueline West. It follows Olive, a girl who can enter paintings and meet talking cats, as she uncovers the secrets of her haunted house and the witches who live there.
About The Book of Elsewhere. A mind-blowing epic from Keanu Reeves and China Miéville, unlike anything these two genre-bending pioneers have created before, inspired by the world of the BRZRKR comic books “An exceptionally innovative collaboration from two remarkable minds.”—William Gibson, author of Neuromancer She said, We needed a tool.
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Elsewhere is a coming-of-age story and work of magical realism—a genre in which fantastical elements (e.g. talking animals) are woven into an otherwise ordinary setting. First published in 2005, it was writer Gabrielle Zevin’s first novel for a YA audience , and was a 2006 Bank Street Best Children’s Book; it is also an American Library ...
Book 5. Still Life. by Jacqueline West. 4.42 · 1,268 Ratings · 138 Reviews · published 2014 · 4 editions. The fifth and final book in The Books of Elsewhere…. Want to Read. Rate it: The Shadows (The Books of Elsewhere, #1), Spellbound (The Books of Elsewhere, #2), The Second Spy (The Books of Elsewhere, #3), The Strangers (The Books...
The Books of Elsewhere Volume 1: The Shadows. Old Ms. McMartin is definitely dead, and her crumbling Victorian mansion lies vacant. When eleven-year-old Olive and her dippy mathematician parents move in, Olive is right to think there's something odd about the place - not least the strange antique paintings hanging on its walls.
