Blackbriar

by William Sleator

Book Overview

Danny can feel something sinister about his new home, Blackbriar, an old, abandoned cottage in the English countryside. The residents of a nearby town refuse to speak of the house and can barely look... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380002485
• ISBN13: 9780380002481
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 10

Customer Reviews

Great mystery for the young adult

Blackbriar is a great mystery for young adults. I read it when i was 11 years old and i still remember it to this day. Its captivating and keeps you on the enge of your seat without being too frightening for a young mind. I would recommend it totally. Enjoy!!!!!!!

"Issslington!"

Ah who could forget poor Danny, his guardian-the indomitable Philippa, and of course Danny's disdain for Islington, Philippa's surly cat. This story creates a world streaming from the facades of a big industrial and bustling city flat to the quiet misty hills of the English country side, it captures little things like the clumsiness of eating on train rides, the fleeting white cat into the woods, carving on wooden doors, witchcraft, and the crackle of fire at night. This is the stuff that makes Sleator stand out, and to this day I even remember the characters as if they were good friends. I am not sure if Danny's interest's name is Lark. She comes later in the story, but her presence adds to the adventure, as Danny has a co-conspirator in his shenanigans in the new house. When I first went to England seven years ago, it was as if this book painted a perfect picture of what it must have always looked like. I wonder if Sleator had written this book while he was there?

One of the Best Ever

I have to agree with the other reviewers, I read this book when I was in Junior High (some 20 years ago) and I still remember it. It is a favorite of mine and still gives me chills late at night! It is hard to know what is the character's imagination and what is really happening, and when the Reader finds out what is really going the scare intensifies instead of lessening! I have been searching for this book forever and cannot wait until I get it and can read it again! It will never leave my collection again.

will and a witch?

i love this book so much. i used to read it every week and i never got bored with it. its rilly well written and it end with a cliffhnger that will leave you asking "what next?" its a book based on some facts but mostly from his imagination. and will takes advantage of the situation and he seems to make most of the things from his mind and uses those to get in trouble. i love this book!!!!!

Excellent

I'm 33 and I STILL remember this book 20 years later. I enjoyed reading the other reviews to reaquaint myself with the plot (of which I had absolutely No memory, but hey, it was 20 years ago). What I did remember was the atmosphere. This story is so well done it stays with you. A phenomenal read!