Double Spell

By Janet Lunn

Book Overview

""Ever since we've had this doll," Elizabeth said hesitantly, "we've had funny things happen "-" the same dreams and knowing things and stuff like that.""Twins Jane and Elizabeth are twelve years old and have outgrown dolls. Nevertheless, on a cold wet spring Saturday they find themselves in an antique store, inexplicably drawn to a small, tattered old fashioned doll. Even the owner of the store seems to understand that the doll somehow belongs to the girls. Once the twins buy the doll, stranger and stranger things begin to happen, and a young girl from the past seems to be calling out to them. The search to discover the history of the little doll brings the twins terrifyingly close to the world of the supernatural as they finally solve a tantalizing mystery. Janet Lunn's first novel, long unavailable, is republished in a fresh, beautiful edition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140318585
• ISBN13: 9780140318586
• Release Date: May 1986
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

A book no childhood should go without

This is one of those children books that you wont mind reading to you kids. Set in Toronto in an earlier part of the 20th Century, it follows the adventures of a set of twins trying to unwind the mysteries that surround their new house. The story is rich and imaginative and flashbacks create a sense mystery. Originally published "Twin Spell" this book is one of my all time childhood favourites. Don't let you child be without.

spellbinding book that you can't put down

I read this book as a child and absolutely loved it. I have been looking for it for YEARS to pass on to my children but have been unsuccessful. It was scary, strange, mysterious, sad and ultimately, hopeful.