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    The Prisoners of the Thirteenth Floor
    The Prisoners of the Thirteenth Floor
    The Prisoners of the Thirteenth Floor
    Ebook89 pages39 minutes

    The Prisoners of the Thirteenth Floor

    By Lisa K. Weber and Michael Dahl

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    Charlie finds himself on the hidden 13th floor of the Abracadabra Hotel. He discovers both Tyler and the magician Brack. Brack was trapped there by a mysterious figure he could not identify.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateDec 21, 2015
    ISBN9781496538871
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    Lisa K. Weber

    Lisa K. Weber makes art for comics, kid’s books, and cartoons. Her work has included graphic-novel adaptations of classic literature, illustrated books for young and middle-grade readers, and character and storyboard design for animations. She cofounded the comic book label HexComix in 2014, cocreating and illustrating its flagship title, Hex11, which earned a nomination for the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, raised in Wilmette, Illinois, and schooled in New York City, Lisa currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California, where she enjoys healthy doses of satire, science fiction, and classic-rock radio.

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      The Prisoners of the Thirteenth Floor - Lisa K. Weber

      Charlie Hitchcock had never slept in a magician’s house before.

      It was disappointing. No unearthly moans. No rattling chains. No phantoms flitting through walls. Charlie would have welcomed them, and would have spent the rest of the night trying to solve the mystery of what they really were. He loved solving puzzles.

      Charlie yawned and pulled the blanket to his chin. Counting ghosts would have been a lot more fun than lying there counting sheep. Instead, he listened to the rumbling of the thunderstorm outside and to the ticking of a grandfather clock. The clock faced the sofa on which he was trying to fall asleep. A flash of lightning lit up the dial.

      Almost three o’clock? he thought. Only four more hours! He groaned and rolled over, gazing around Brack’s sitting room.

      Brack — also known as Abracadabra, the legendary magician — was the founder and owner of the world-famous Abracadabra Hotel, the only hotel made by and for retired magicians, and Brack’s home was a special penthouse on the windy roof of the building. But Brack was not there. The old magician was missing.

      Groans came from the closet.

      For a nanosecond, Charlie hoped it was a ghost, but he knew the sound was just old floorboards settling in the storm.

      The boy glanced over at the magician’s big, wooden desk. The pile of books and papers covering the desk was the reason he was staying overnight. They had also led Charlie into his latest adventure, along with Tyler Yu.

      The hotheaded Tyler was known at Blackstone Middle School for having enemies. But he and Charlie made a good team. They had solved a number of weird puzzles in the old hotel. This newest mystery was the weirdest. Brack was missing, and Tyler had also vanished.

      On the magician’s desk lay a clue that Charlie hoped would lead him to his friends. It was a sheet of paper that held an unusual list of words:

      Charlie was convinced that lily, written in Brack’s spidery handwriting, referred to a flower in the hallway of the hotel’s fourteenth floor. A flower that stood out strangely from the rest of the old-fashioned wallpaper.

      But it was the last entry in the list that bothered him the most. THE 12. Did that mean the twelfth floor?

      Then why hadn’t Brack written it the way he wrote 13th floor just above it?

      Dnnng! Dnnng! Dnnng!

      Three o’clock. Charlie shifted on the sofa and pulled the blanket around himself more tightly.

      What — or who — are the Twelve? he wondered.

      There were twelve months in the year. Twelve numbers on a clock. Twelve days of Christmas.

      Twelve signs of the Zzzzz…

      Brack’s sitting room soon echoed with the thunder-like rumbling of Charlie’s snores.

      And while the boy slept, a dark figure — waiting patiently in the shadows — slipped from the closet, made its way to the front door, and darted away from the magician’s house.

      * * *

      Four hours later, Charlie yawned and stepped off the elevator, shuffling through the vast lobby of

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