num_pages: 208
description: Rose Rita Pottinger is dreading summer. With her best friend, Lewis Barnavelt, away at Boy Scout camp, vacation threatens to be altogether boring. But when Mrs. Zimmermann, Lewis's next door neighbor and a genuine witch, receives a strange deathbed letter from an eccentric uncle, unexpected things start to happen.Rose Rita and Mrs. Zimmermann set off on a trip to discover the meaning of the letter. A ransacked farmhouse, a missing ring, shadowy figures appearing in the night, and mysterious magic symbols are just the beginning as they are gradually drawn into a terrifying world of occult mysteries, where Mrs. Zimmermann's failing powers can't help them.
language: English
title: The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring
titlecomplete: The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring
characters: Florence Zimmermann, Rose Rita Pottinger, Jonathan Barnavelt, Lewis Barnavelt
genres: Middle Grade, Young Adult, Childrens, Magic, Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Juvenile, Paranormal, Mystery
ratings_count: 2532
series: Lewis Barnavelt
awards: awardedAt: 252489600000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Puffin