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      The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull

      by John Bellairs
      Published
      Nov 1984
      Main Genre
      Mystery Mystery
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      Series
      A Johnny Dixon Mystery Book 4

      About This Book

      Professor Childermass has disappeared. And Johnny Dixon can find few clues: a haunted dollhouse and a lighted. menacing iack-e-lantern. The dollhouse is a miniature replica of a room in the Childermass family home—the same room where the professor's granduncle Lucius died in a rely bizarre way. When Johnny takes a tiny skull from the dollhouse demonic forces are unleashed—forces that capture the professor and lead Johnny and his friends Fergie and Father on a islands of Maine. There waiting for them is something far more terrifying than they could have imagined.

      Series Placement

      Book 4
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      Genres & Themes

      Genres

      Suspense

      Subgenres

      Mystery

      Age Level

      Kids (12 & Under) Kids: Middle Grade

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