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Painted Devil

Michael Bedard

1994226 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1994
first published
  • 1994Atheneum · 226 pages · ENGISBN 9780689318276
  • 1994Lester Pub. · 226 pages · ENGISBN 9781895555486
  • 2000Stoddart Publishing,Canada · 240 pagesISBN 9780773758407
  • 2007Simon Pulse · 240 pages · ENGISBN 9781416961390

A visit from strange Aunt Emily invokes in Alice a foreboding sense of evil, as they find connections between the local library's collection of old puppets and a sinister magic show that took place twenty-eight years earlier.

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AtmosphereWhimsical

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Written forMiddle grade
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