The gates
By: John Connolly
Publisher: Charnwood
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781444804621
Subjects: Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland); Halloween; Demonology; Fiction
Description: Samuel Johnson has a number of problems: his dad cares more about his car than his family; his mother is lonely, and only Samuel's dog, Boswell, truly understands him. Oh, and as if things couldn't get any worse, Samuel's neighbours, led by the villainous Mrs Abernathy, are trying to open the gates of hell. It's up to Samuel to stop them, except nobody will believe him, and time is running out ... Now the fate of humanity lies in the hands of one small boy, an even smaller dog, and a very unlucky demon named Nurd ...
Notes: Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2009.