Nick, his brother, Danny, and his father have to move after their mother dies in the fire that destroyed their old house. They move across the country because they’ve inherited an aunt’s house. When Nick tries to go into the attic he finds that it’s full of junk and decides to have a yard sale. At first no one comes but when Nick turns on a lamp that he found in the attic people start flocking to their house and buy nearly everything that came out of the attic. However, after making friends with some of the kids in school who also bought some of the items, Nick finds that these weren’t ordinary things. For example, there was a camera that takes pictures of the future, a tape recorder that records what people are thinking instead of what they’re saying, an odd metallic device that looks a little like a See-And-Say that finishes people’s sentences with pieces of truth they might not have known, and a battery that makes the dead come back to life. Unfortunately, there is a group of people out there determined to find the items that came from the attic and they will stop at nothing to get them. The first in a new trilogy, this was an excellent science fiction/fantasy story and young fans of this genre will probably like it.
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