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Rose Rita Pottinger looks forward to a quiet summer, but when her best friend Lewis Barnavelt heads to Boy Scout camp, boredom looms. The situation changes dramatically when Mrs. Zimmermann, the neighborhood witch, receives a strange deathbed letter from an eccentric uncle. Together, Rose Rita and Mrs. Zimmermann embark on a quest to uncover the letter’s mystery. They encounter a ransacked farmhouse, a missing ring, shadowy figures, and cryptic magic symbols. As they dig deeper, the duo is drawn into a terrifying world of occult mysteries, with Mrs. Zimmermann’s waning powers offering little help.
First publish date: June 1, 2001
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Fantasy
Authors: John Bellairs
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