House of Stairs

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Peter Smith Publisher, Incorporated, 2001 - Juvenile Fiction
One by one, five sixteen-year-old orphans are brought to a strange building. It is 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 a strange red machine. The five must learn to love the machine and let it rule their lives. But will they let it kill their souls? This chilling, suspenseful indictment of mind control is a classic of science fiction and will haunt readers long after the last page is turned.

An intensely suspenseful page-turner. School Library Journal
A riveting suspense novel with an anti-behaviorist message that works . . . because it emerges only slowly from the chilling events. Kirkus Reviews

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House of Stairs
William Sleator
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William Sleator
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William Sleator
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About the author (2001)

William Sleator was born on February 13, 1945 in Harve de Grace, Maryland. In 1967, he received a BA in English from Harvard University. He mainly wrote science fiction novels for young adults. His first novel, Blackbriar, was published in 1972. He wrote more than 30 books including House of Stairs, Interstellar Pig, The Green Futures of Tycho, Strange Attractors, The Spirit House, The Boy Who Couldn't Die, and The Phantom Limb. His picture book, The Angry Moon, won a Caldecott Award in 1971. He died on August 3, 2011 at the age of 66.

Bibliographic information

TitleHouse of Stairs
AuthorWilliam Sleator
PublisherPeter Smith Publisher, Incorporated, 2001
ISBN084467186X, 9780844671864
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Juvenile Fiction / Science Fiction / General
Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings
  
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