The Tilting House

By Tom Llewellyn

Book Overview

"Whaddya say you boys and me take five and poke around a bit?" "Poke around where?" I asked. "Around our new house. I'll bet if we look in every nook and cranny, we'll uncover a secret or two." "A secret?" asked Aaron. "What kind of secret?" "I don't know." Dad grinned as he struggled to get up from the tilting couch. "A house built with tilting floors has got to have secrets." Talking rats Growth potions Buried treasure Brothers Josh and Aaron Peshik are about to discover that their new home with the tilting floors hides many mysteries. When the boys and their neighbor Lola discover the hidden diary of F.T. Tilton, the brilliant but deranged inventor who built the house, they learn a dark secret that may mean disaster for the Peshik family. Can the kids solve the riddles of the tilting house before time runs out? Mad science, mischief, and mishaps combine in the suspenseful and imaginative tale of The Tilting House .

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582462887
• ISBN13: 9781582462882
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Tricycle Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Engaging, imaginative mystery in the tradition of John Bellairs

I bought this for my eleven-year-old niece. She loves mysteries and has read just about every Nancy Drew. She loved this one and gobbled it up in one sitting. It's the story of two young brothers, eleven-year-old Josh and his little brother Aaron. They move into a house with tilting floors---but it's not because the house is old. The house was built to have floors that tilt at exactly three degrees---and no one knows why. This is only the first of many strange things about the house. Little by little the house's history is revealed, along with the story of the house's original owner, an eccentric inventor named F.T. Tilton. The mystery gathers momentum as the book progresses. There are fantastical elements such as talking rats and growth powders. In fact, the book is crammed full of imaginative flourishes. Highly recommended.