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House of Stairs

57.1% complete
1974
1979
1 time
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20 Chapters
Epilogue
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361
No series
Copyright © 1974 by William Sleator
This book is dedicated to
all the rats and pigeons
who have already been here
The whirring around them had been going on for quite a long time.
May contain spoilers
Without hesitation they began to dance.
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Added: 03-Jan-2003
Last Updated: 01-Aug-2015

Publications

 01-Oct-1975
Avon Books
Paperback
In my libraryI read this editionOrder from amazon.comHas a cover imageBook Edition Cover
Date Issued:
Cir 01-Oct-1975
Format:
Paperback
Cover Price:
$0.95
Pages*:
157
Read:
Once
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
419
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-380-00507-7
ISBN-13:
978-0-380-00507-9
Printing:
4
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Survival...
at what cost?


Peter.  Lola.  Blossom.  Abigail.  Oliver.  Five sixteen-year-old orphans living in state institutions.

And then they were brought one by one, blindfolded, to the place which was not a hospital and not a prison and not like anything they had ever seen.

No walls, no ceiling, no floor.  Nothing but an all-white maze of interlocking staircases - and the food machine with the flashing lights.


"Forceful sci-fi... will have readers hanging by the skin of their teeth... and intensely suspenseful page-turner."  LIBRARY JOURNAL
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Notes and Comments:
I read this in ninth grade at Hefner Junior High.  I got it from a Scholastics order.  At the time it was pretty mysterious.
 01-Apr-1991
Puffin Books
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Apr-1991
Pages*:
166
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
297
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-140-34580-9
ISBN-13:
978-0-140-34580-3
Country:
United States
Language:
English
In the not-too-distant future, there's a house that's not a home.  It's your worst nightmare.

Peter.  Lola.  Blossom.  Abigail.  Oliver.  Five sixteen-year-old orphans.  One by one, they are brought to a place that is unlike anything any of them has ever known.  It's not a prison, not a hospital.  It has no walls, no ceiling, no floor.  Nothing but endless flights of stairs leading nowhere - except back to the red machine.  The five will learn to love the machine, will let it rule their lives.  But will they let it kill their souls?
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Author(s)

William Sleator  
Birth: 13 Feb 1945 Havre de Grace, Maryland, USA
Death: 03 Aug 2011 Bua Chet, Thailand

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