| House of Stairs Contributor(s): Sleator, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 0140345809 ISBN-13: 9780140345803 Publisher: Puffin Books OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: April 1991 Annotation: One by one, five sixteen-year-old orphans are brought to a strange building. It is not a prison, not a hospital; it has no walls, no ceiling, no floor. Nothing but endless flights of stairs leading nowhere except back to a strange red machine. The five must learn to love the machine and let it rule their lives. But will they let it kill their souls? This chilling, suspenseful indictment of mind control is a classic of science fiction and will haunt readers long after the last page is turned. An intensely suspenseful page-turner. School Library Journal |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy & Magic - Juvenile Fiction | Science Fiction - General - Juvenile Fiction | Boys & Men |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 90041419 |
| Lexile Measure: 810 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 4.4" W x 7.1" (0.28 lbs) 176 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 47131 Reading Level: 6.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 7.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This chilling, suspenseful indictment of mind control is a classic of science fiction and will haunt readers long after the last page is turned. One by one, five sixteen-year-old orphans are brought to a strange building. It is not a prison, not a hospital; it has no walls, no ceiling, no floor. Nothing but endless flights of stairs leading nowhere--except back to a strange red machine. The five must learn to love the machine and let it rule their lives. But will they let it kill their souls? An intensely suspenseful page-turner. --School Library Journal A riveting suspense novel with an anti-behaviorist message that works . . . because it emerges only slowly from the chilling events. --Kirkus Reviews |