What's Waiting at Wellington Mansion

by Bobby Diamond

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589820266
• ISBN13: 9781589820265
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Amer Book Pub
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

What a surprise!

This fantastic adventure is great for anyone who can sit through to the end. The book took a little while to get exciting, but once you got to the exciting part, you can't put the book down. It's a must read tale of an average young boy living with his grandparents. But what he doesn't expect is an adventure! Besides the slightly difficult vocabulary, this book will surprise and amaze you once you find out what's waiting at Wellington Mansion!

Excellent fiction, regardless of age

"What's Waiting at Wellington Mansion?" (as it promised) kept me up reading well past my bedtime, and I'm well into my twenties! Tim goes to live at his grandparents' boarding house, where he becomes obsessed with the haunting--and haunted--mansion where two twin sorcerers once killed one other, and as he investigates the mystery behind the magical events at Wellington Mansion, he finds answers in his grandparents' mysterious boarders, his beautiful new friend Christine, and in his own family tree. This is a terrific kid's book that's attentive to its young audience in its instructive vocabulary and beautifully structured mystery, but it's also suitable for adults (from the Gothically inclined to fans of old Lauren Bacall films noirs) looking to enjoy a clever story and well-shaped, nuanced characters. In this sense, "What's Waiting at Wellington Mansion?," like many of Roald Dahl's books (which share a macabre sense of humor with "Wellington Mansion"), works so well in its refusal to condescend to its young readership. It engages its readers in its plot, its characters, and its use of language without talking down to its characters or to its audence. Similarly, the book has strong lessons of tolerance, intelligence, and friendship, but it never moralizes or grand-stands on any kind of platform as it moves along swiftly. Indeed, it's not written as a children's book or as "juvenile fiction," but rather as a good, exciting story for its audience to enjoy--as I most certainly did.