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Chapters: Bobby Diamond, Jeffrey Steinberger, Albert L. Gordon. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bobby Diamond, also known as Robert Leroy Diamond (born August 23, 1943, in Los Angeles), is a California civil and criminal law attorney who was a child star and young-adult actor, mostly in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best remembered after nearly a half-century for his role as the orphaned Joey Clark Newton in the television series Fury, which ran on NBC with new episodes from October 15, 1955 through March 19, 1960. He was listed as Robert Diamond in the cast credits during the first season in 1955. In 1961, Diamond appeared as "Buddy" in NBC's situation comedy The Nanette Fabray Show. He was thereafter cast in 1962-1963 as Dobie Gillis's cousin, Duncan "Dunky" Gillis, for seven episodes of the final season of CBS's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, starring Dwayne Hickman and Bob Denver of Gilligans Island, who played Maynard G. Krebs (the "G" stood for "Walter".) In Fury, Diamond's character Joey, who had run afoul of the law, befriends a handsome wild black stallion and lives on the Broken Wheel Ranch in California with his widowed and presumably adopted father, Jim Newton, played by Peter Graves, later known for his role on Mission: Impossible. Newton's wife and son had been killed by a drunk driver. Joey called Jim by his first name but in time looked upon him as a father. The late character actor William Fawcett played the housekeeper and top ranch hand Pete Wilkey. Fawcett was the veteran of many western on TV and in motion picutures. Roger Mobley also had a recurring role as Homer "Packy" Lambert and Jimmy Baird as PeeWee, friends of Joey's. The popular program originally ran after school hours during the week, but moved to Saturday morning...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15426304 ... Read more

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What's Waiting at Wellington Mansion? is guaranteed to keep you turning pages past your bedtime! Tim knew starting fifth grade in a new place would be full of adventures, some fun and some scary. He never expected his grandparents' boarding house-and its peculiar guests-would be the biggest adventure of them all.

Witchcraft, magical powers, ghosts, a haunted mansion, and a villain bent on sacrificing an innocent victim to raise a malicious ghost from the dead...together they weave a tale so magical, you'll be sorry to find the mystery finally solved. And in the process, you'll learn something about the power of love, tolerance, and looking beyond appearances. ... Read more

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What a surprise!
This fantastic adventure is great for anyone who can sit through to the end. The book took a little while to get exciting, but once you got to the exciting part, you can't put the book down. It's a must read tale of an average young boy living with his grandparents. But what he doesn't expect is an adventure! Besides the slightly difficult vocabulary, this book will surprise and amaze you once you find out what's waiting at Wellington Mansion!

Excellent fiction, regardless of age
"What's Waiting at Wellington Mansion?" (as it promised) kept me up reading well past my bedtime, and I'm well into my twenties!

Tim goes to live at his grandparents' boarding house, where he becomes obsessed with the haunting--and haunted--mansion where two twin sorcerers once killed one other, and as he investigates the mystery behind the magical events at Wellington Mansion, he finds answers in his grandparents' mysterious boarders, his beautiful new friend Christine, and in his own family tree.

This is a terrific kid's book that's attentive to its young audience in its instructive vocabulary and beautifully structured mystery, but it's also suitable for adults (from the Gothically inclined to fans of old Lauren Bacall films noirs) looking to enjoy a clever story and well-shaped, nuanced characters. In this sense, "What's Waiting at Wellington Mansion?," like many of Roald Dahl's books (which share a macabre sense of humor with "Wellington Mansion"), works so well in its refusal to condescend to its young readership. It engages its readers in its plot, its characters, and its use of language without talking down to its characters or to its audence. Similarly, the book has strong lessons of tolerance, intelligence, and friendship, but it never moralizes or grand-stands on any kind of platform as it moves along swiftly. Indeed, it's not written as a children's book or as "juvenile fiction," but rather as a good, exciting story for its audience to enjoy--as I most certainly did. ... Read more

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Last night I had a crazy dream

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Sylvia Thompson, using the name Jane Bingham, became nursemaid to Bobby Palin in order to find out what had really happened to her sister, Bobby’s former helper. In no time she found herself in love with her employer, suspicious of his second wife, and horrified by her sister’s fate—which might have been sealed by the infamous black diamond mourning ring. Victorian Gothic by Joan Smith, writing as Jennie Gallant; originally published by Fawcett Crest ... Read more