T.J. Finnel and the Well of Ghosts - Rebecca F. Pittman - Bog

T.J. Finnel and the Well of Ghosts is an action-packed children's adventure novel for the middle-grade school market. Adults are having a hard time putting it down as well, comparing it to Harry Potter and Fablehaven. T.J. is an 11 year-old boy with a love of science and the stars. He and his family are living with his grandfather in a 110 year-old house that sits at the edge of the most-haunted woods in America...Harmon's Wood. With sightings of ghosts, eerie lights, and toad-like creatures roaming the forest, Harmon's Wood has caused the inhabitants of Coven Bay to lock their doors and windows at night for a hundred years; the time a mysterious well with secret symbols first appeared inside a cave deep within the trees. When a Forest Witch, named Morble, comes through the well from another dimension, the terror begins. She is searching for three things: the Dark Orb, Lunar Potion, and a powerful eye belonging to the Crone of the Spectre Lands. When T.J.'s grandfather is suddenly pulled into one of his paintings, the only people who seem to have clues as to what happened to the famous artist, are a talking troll-head walking cane named Twicket, and Mandolin Brandy, a constellation who has come to life. Together the threesome must take on the Crone of the Spectre Lands, a pirate ghost named Barnacle (who sails the skies in his ship of stars), a peddler called Wheedle, floating Banshees, a flying band of Siglets, and other creatures that inhabit another dimension. All the puzzle pieces must be in place before the Dark Moon rises, at which time the well will change locations, and T.J.'s grandfather, along with all the inhabitants of the 5 Dimensions, will be stuck where they are for the next 100 years, including the creatures who have entered our world. Time is running out. The only way for T.J., Twicket and Mandolin to save Dillon Finnel, and stop the evil, is to enter the Well of Ghosts.