The Halloween Tree"A fast-moving, eerie...tale set on Halloween night. Eight costumed boys running to meet their friend Pipkin at the haunted house outside town encounter instead the huge and cadaverous Mr. Moundshroud. As Pipkin scrambles to join them, he is swept away by a dark Something, and Moundshroud leads the boys on the tail of a kite through time and space to search the past for their friend and the meaning of Halloween. After witnessing a funeral procession in ancient Egypt, cavemen discovering fire, Druid rites, the persecution of witches in the Dark Ages, and the gargoyles of Notre Dame, they catch up with the elusive Pipkin in the catacombs of Mexico, where each boy gives one year from the end of his life to save Pipkin's. Enhanced by appropriately haunting black-and-white drawings."--Booklist |
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... leaned away from the lost sun in the west and tried to enter the houses . But the warm food , steaming on the porches , kept the shadows circling and stirring . A faint smell of incense and mummy dust wafted up to the boys who looked ...
... leaned away from the lost sun in the west and tried to enter the houses . But the warm food , steaming on the porches , kept the shadows circling and stirring . A faint smell of incense and mummy dust wafted up to the boys who looked ...
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Ray Bradbury. And hung empty . The boys leaned to peer into its cavernous mouth . There was no clapper inside shaped like Pipkin . " Pipkin ? " they whispered . " ... kin , " echoed the bell in a small echo . " He's here somewhere . Up ...
Ray Bradbury. And hung empty . The boys leaned to peer into its cavernous mouth . There was no clapper inside shaped like Pipkin . " Pipkin ? " they whispered . " ... kin , " echoed the bell in a small echo . " He's here somewhere . Up ...
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... leaned and groaned in the wind their passage made . Dust sifted out of windows to greet them . Shades flapped in yet other windows like ancient tongues lolling to be diagnosed by wind - borne small doctors of strange medicines . Ghosts ...
... leaned and groaned in the wind their passage made . Dust sifted out of windows to greet them . Shades flapped in yet other windows like ancient tongues lolling to be diagnosed by wind - borne small doctors of strange medicines . Ghosts ...
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