The Tilting House
The Tilting House
The Tilting House
Tom Llewellyn
   “Whaddya say you boys and me take five and poke around a bit?”    “Poke around where?” I asked.   “Around our new house. I’ll bet if we look in every nook and cranny, we’ll uncover a secret or two.”   “A secret?” asked Aaron. “What kind of secret?”   “I don’t know.” Dad grinned as he struggled to get up from the tilting couch. “A house built with tilting floors has got to have secrets.” Talking ratsGrowth potionsBuried treasureBrothers Josh and Aaron Peshik are about to discover that their new home with the tilting floors hides many mysteries. When the boys and their neighbor Lola discover the hidden diary of F.T. Tilton, the brilliant but deranged inventor who built the house, they learn a dark secret that may mean disaster for the Peshik family. Can the kids solve the riddles of the tilting house before time runs out?Mad science, mischief, and mishaps combine in the suspenseful and imaginative tale of The Tilting House.

Book Details

Genre: 

  • Fantasy

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
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You don't understand. YOUR house is straight. Aaron and Josh never had that option- at least not in this house. Their house is tilted, but not only that. Beneath its normal exterior, the house holds many secrets of its past owner. Aaron and Josh, assisted by their neighbor Lola, discover somthing extraordinary in the house. Good thing their dad insisted on buying the house...read the book, and you'll understand how strange staring neighbors, different writings on walls, and previous secrets can be.

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The Peshik family moves into a very strange old house, which has tilting floors and writing all over the walls. Jake isnt sure if hell be able to live in such an eccentric house. How is he going to have friends over? But he and his little brother, Aaron, find out, through a few misadventures, that the house has a few secrets, such as the previous owners mysterious life and death and the things (other than the writing on the walls) that he left behind. And Jake comes to realize how cool his new house really is.

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