The three Walker siblings at the center of the story are threatened by death constantly, and their loyalty to one another is tested luckily, they always come together in a crisis. But House of Secrets can get gory, too, with talk of live autopsies performed by the pirate captain, a couple of fatal stabbings, kids removing an arrow and stitching up the wound themselves, and an eyeball pierced by an arrow and then plucked out intact. With lots of action-violence featuring kids battling pirates, mercenaries, cursed skeletons, and supernatural forces, it feels a bit like Gremlins and The Goonies. Rowling gives it a plug on the front cover) and wrote scripts for the The Goonies and Gremlins - and YA author Ned Vizzini ( The Other Normals). Parents need to know that House of Secrets is co-written by Chris Columbus - who directed the first two Harry Pottermovies ( J.
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