Eleven-year-old Olive has recently moved into a new house with her loving, but slightly clueless, mathematician parents. While they're off being grown-ups, Olive is busy discovering there's more to their new home than meets the eye. Measuring up in equal parts of cleverness, bravery and innocence, Olive slowly learns their new home has some dangerous old secrets.
With the help of a pair of unique spectacles, Olive soon discovers she's able to travel into the many unusual paintings hanging around the house. And she makes some very interesting new friends along they way. In order to save her family and herself from the evil resulting from the series of events she has unwittingly initiates herself, Olive is forced to face some of her own worst fears and then to try and overcome them.
The Shadows features an engaging plotline with characters and descriptions that being the story to life. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing where else the Elsewhere books will take us. And Olive, of course!
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Eleven-year-old Olive has recently moved into a new house with her loving, but slightly clueless, mathematician parents. While they're off being grown-ups, Olive is busy discovering there's more to their new home than meets the eye. Measuring up in equal parts of cleverness, bravery and innocence, Olive slowly learns their new home has some dangerous old secrets.
With the help of a pair of unique spectacles, Olive soon discovers she's able to travel into the many unusual paintings hanging around the house. And she makes some very interesting new friends along they way. In order to save her family and herself from the evil resulting from the series of events she has unwittingly initiates herself, Olive is forced to face some of her own worst fears and then to try and overcome them.
The Shadows features an engaging plotline with characters and descriptions that being the story to life. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing where else the Elsewhere books will take us. And Olive, of course!