Part of Series
It started out as a two-week vacation—and turned into a terrifying journey back in time. Rose Rita is thrilled when her parents agree to let her go on a two-week summer trip with her friend Mrs. Zimmermann—who is a witch. She knows that it will be a dangerous adventure, but suspects nothing until they drive through a tunnel on the highway—and find themselves in the snowbound winter of 1828, in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country. Mrs. Zimmermann has returned to the past to regain her magical powers from her first teacher, Granny Wetherbee. But she didn't count on losing her memory, leaving the two of them stranded in time....
Author
John Bellairs (1938–1991) was an American novelist working primarily in the Gothic genre. He is best-known for the children's classic The House with a Clock in its Walls 1973) and for the pathbreaking fantasy novel The Face in the Frost (1969). Bellairs held a bachelor's degree from Notre Dame University and a master's in English from the University of Chicago. He combined writing and teaching from 1963 to 1971, including a year at Shimer College that coincided with that school's storied Grotesque Internecine Struggle. After 1971, he took up writing as his full-time work. (from Shimer College Wiki)
