Product Details
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, August 2011
Trade Paperback, 320 pages
ISBN-10: 144242933X
ISBN-13: 9781442429338
Grades: 5 - 9
Description
Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund, Boswell, are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Halloween, which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Road. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with the underworld, but when they unknowingly call forth Satan himself, they create a gap in the universe, a gap through which a pair of enormous gates is visible. The gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings just itching to get out.... Can one small boy defeat evil? Can he harness the power of science, faith, and love to save the world as we know it?
Bursting with imagination and impossible to put down, The Gates is about the pull between good and evil, physics and fantasy and the courage of a boy who is barely old enough to trick or treat on his own. This novel makes anything seem possible.
Bursting with imagination and impossible to put down, The Gates is about the pull between good and evil, physics and fantasy and the courage of a boy who is barely old enough to trick or treat on his own. This novel makes anything seem possible.
Joplin Globe, August 1, 2011
...reconcile with the tornado -- man-made disasters can be infinitely more terrible than acts of God. ~ “The Gates,” by John Connolly. First sentence: “In the beginning, about 13.7 billion years ago, to be reasonably precise, there was a ...
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