Beyond the Door [Library Binding]

Gary L. Blackwood (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 10 and up

Teenagers Scott and Tully find an unused study room in the library which is actually a doorway into an alternate world, where an outcast is pursuing dangerous experiments to increase his control over the emerging technology of his universe.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 5-9-- Scott Shaffer, brighter than his high school classmates and emotionally numbed by his father's desertion, spends most of his time in the closed-stack physics section of his county library. Following a mysterious red-robed man, Tomeas, Scott unlocks the door of a dusty, unused study room and enters the pre-industrial world of Gale'tin. Caught up in Tomeas's scheme for bringing technology to Gale'tin's unwilling inhabitants, Scott steals equipment from his school's physics lab and participates in cruel experiments. Meanwhile, Tully Markovic, a classmate, pursuing the indifferent Scott, finds her way to Gale'tin, where she quickly makes friends. After she is kidnapped and enslaved by Tomeas's accomplices in a firey underground mine, Scott is forced to confront the evils of uncontrolled intellect. This theme is spelled out more clearly than in LeGuin's subtle and far more complex A Wizard of Earthsea (Houghton, 1968). Although there are moments when the characters serve the plot and the imaginary world is a bit sketchy, readers, reluctant or not, will enjoy the fast-paced action and alternating points of view between Tully and Scott. Recommended where additional fantasies are needed. --Margaret A. Chang, Buxton School, Williamstown, MA
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 10 and up
  
• Library Binding: 166 pages
• Publisher: Atheneum; First Edition edition (April 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0689316453
• ISBN-13: 978-0689316456
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,630,456 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gary L. Blackwood sold his first story when he was nineteen, and has been writing and publishing stories, articles, plays, novels, and nonfiction books regularly ever since. His stage plays have won awards and been produced in university and regional theatre. Nonfiction subjects he's covered include biography, history, and paranormal phenomena. His juvenile novels, which include WILD TIMOTHY, THE DYING SUN, and THE SHAKESPEARE STEALER, are set in a wide range of times and places, from Elizabethan England to a parallel universe. Several have received special recognition and been translated into other languages. He lives near Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia.