What We're Reading: Tracy

The Dark Secret of Weatherend, by John Bellairs.

John Bellairs wrote several wonderful series of cozy supernatural mysteries for children, including the classic The House With a Clock in Its Walls. His stories were inspired by his hometown, historic Marshall, Michigan, filled with spooky old mansions, tree-lined streets, and plenty of interesting places for a curious boy to explore.

In The Dark Secret of Weatherend, Bellairs created a similarly historic town, Hoosac, Minnesota, that is just bursting with eerie goings-on beneath its homey surface. Anthony Monday and his friend Miss Eells, the town librarian, discover a plot by an evil magician to cover the whole world with unending blizzards. At first, it seems like a joke, until the snow starts falling...and keeps falling, and falling, and falling. It's up to Anthony and Miss Eells to use both their research skills and their brave investigative abilities to save the day.

Check it out today: it's the perfect read for a winter that seems like it will never end!