{"product_id":"the-stone-the-cipher-and-the-shadows-john-bellairss-johnny-dixon-in-a-mystery-paperback","title":"The Stone, the Cipher, and the Shadows: John Bellairs's Johnny Dixon in a Mystery - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrad Strickland\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA flu epidemic ushers in a plague of dark magic in this spooktastic mystery featuring teenage sleuth Johnny Dixon from \u003ci\u003eThe Wrath of the Grinning Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Though forty miles away, Duston Heights is not safe from the flu that's raging through Boston. When Johnny Dixon's grandmother falls ill, he's sent to live with his neighbor to avoid infection. So many locals are getting sick that school is canceled for a week, and the reclusive Dr. Abram Ashburn comes out of retirement to make house calls. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e After seeing a scary vision of his bedridden grandmother outside of a window, Johnny starts to feel on edge. Then he and his best friend find what looks to be a weird map of a cemetery in Dr. Ashburn's house. One specific grave is marked with an \"X,\" the burial place of a woman who practiced witchcraft in the seventeenth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The townspeople recover from the flu, but they can't escape the terrifying illusions and shadow people that now haunt them, unless Johnny and his friends find the key to unlock the secrets of the graveyard before a dreadful prophecy comes to pass . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Wrath of the Grinning Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Fans of the series will enjoy this new supernatural adventure, which reads so much like Bellairs's books that they won't believe he didn't write it.\" --\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Strickland's story is eerie, suspenseful, and true to the personalities and writing style of Bellairs, who began the Johnny Dixon series . . . This is good reading for adventure enthusiasts as well as for series fans.\" --\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrad Strickland has written and cowritten forty-one novels, many of them for younger readers. He is the author of the fantasy trilogy \u003ci\u003eMoon Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Nul's Quest\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWizard's Mole\u003c\/i\u003e, and the creator of the popular horror novel \u003ci\u003eShadowshow\u003c\/i\u003e. With his wife, Barbara, he has written for the Star Trek Young Adult book series, for Nickelodeon's \u003ci\u003eAre You Afraid of the Dark?\u003c\/i\u003e book series, and for \u003ci\u003eSabrina, the Teenage Witch\u003c\/i\u003e (Pocket Books). Both solo and with Thomas E. Fuller, he has written several books about Wishbone, public TV's literature-loving dog. When he's not writing, he teaches English at Gainesville College in Gainesville, Georgia. He and Barbara have two children, Amy and Jonathan, and a daughter-in-law, Rebecca. They live and work in Oakwood, Georgia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 164\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 7.95 x 5.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 08, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43404039487577,"sku":"9781504081634","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/6465\/9545\/files\/LqYuCxTbYH9781504081634.webp?v=1780851821","url":"https:\/\/warrenssanctuaryofthemind.myshopify.com\/products\/the-stone-the-cipher-and-the-shadows-john-bellairss-johnny-dixon-in-a-mystery-paperback","provider":"Warren's sanctuary of the mind","version":"1.0","type":"link"}