Midnight Is a Place

by Joan Aiken

Overview

Now, back in print, the engaging and suspenseful British fantasy by one of England’s most imaginative storytellers.

Lucas Bell is lonely and miserable at Midnight Court, a vast, brooding house owned by his intolerable guardian, Sir Randolph Grimsby. When a mysterious carriage brings a visitor to the house, Lucas hopes he’s found a friend at last. But the newcomer, Anna Marie, is unfriendly and spoiled—and French. Just when Lucas thinks things can’t get any worse, disastrous circumstances force him and Anna Marie, parentless and penniless, into the dark and unfriendly streets of Blastburn.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780618196258
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/28/2002
Series:	Wolves Chronicles (Paperback)
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.12(w) x 7.62(h) x (d)
Lexile:	910L (what's this?)
Age Range:	10 - 14 Years

About the Author

Joan Aiken, daughter of the American writer Conrad Aiken, was born in Rye, Sussex, England, and has written more than sixty books for children, including The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.

Table of Contents

Part 1	Evening	1
Part 2	Midnight	117
Part 3	Daybreak	185

Editorial Reviews

A host of reissues find young people stuck between a rock and a hard place. First published in 1974 and set in 19th-century England, Midnight Is a Place by Joan Aiken stars Lucas Bell, who lives with his guardian Sir Randolph Grimsby in a lonely old house called Midnight Court. When an unfamiliar carriage delivers a girl to their doorstep, Lucas thinks he finally has a companion-but she is not what he had in mind, and a twist of fate leaves the children adrift on the streets.

Publishers Weekly