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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
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Text copyright © 2011 by Jacqueline West Illustrations copyright © 2011 by Poly Bernatene
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
West, Jacqueline, date.
Spellbound / by Jacqueline West ; illustrated by Poly Bernatene.
p. cm. —(The books of Elsewhere ; v. 2)
Sequel to: Shadows.
ISBN : 978-1-101-51701-7
[1. Space and time—Fiction. 2. Dwellings—Fiction. 3. Magic—Fiction.
4. Books and reading—Fiction. 5.
Cats—Fiction. ] I. Bernatene, Poly, ill. II. Title.PZ7. W51776Spe 2011
[Fic]—dc22
2010041865
1
EVERYONE WHO LIVED in the big stone house on Linden Street eventually went insane.
That was what the neighbors said, anyway. Mr. Fergus told Mr. Butler about Aldous McMartin, the house’s first owner, a weird old artist who wouldn’t sell a single painting and who only came out of the house at night. Mrs. Dewey and Mr. Hanniman whispered about Annabelle McMartin, Aldous’s granddaughter, who had kicked the bucket right there inside the house at the age of 104, with no friends or family to notice she was dead except for her three gigantic cats, who may or may not have begun nibbling on her head.
And now there were these new owners—these Dunwoodys—who appeared to have already bought their tickets for the crazy train.
Since the beginning of the summer, the neighbors up and down Linden Street had gotten used to seeing a quiet, gangly girl playing or reading in the yard of the big stone house. The girl was usually alone, but every now and then a man with thick glasses and thin hair would mosey out, take the ancient push mower from the shed, and cut one or two crooked rows of grass before stopping to stare up at the sky and mutter to himself. Then he would rush back into the house, leaving the mower on the lawn. Sometimes the mower stood there for days.
