![]() ![]() ![]() ^ Johnny Dixon and the Professor series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB).^ Clendineng, Sarah: "What's Happening Your Library: Halloween Reads", Fort Madison Daily Democrat, October 24, 2007.^ "BookPicks: Kids' Books", Herald-Journal, May 12, 2004.^ Bell, Bob: "Bellairs' Book Fast-Paced Thriller", Edmonton Journal, November 12, 1986. ![]() ![]() One Johnny Dixon book was outlined by Bellairs and completed by Strickland. Thenceforth, Johnny, Fergie, and Professor Childermass (who is typically referred to as simply "the professor") are the three principal characters of the series. In "The Mummy, the Will and the Crypt", Johnny meets a boy his own age, Byron Q. Johnny's best friend, history professor Roderick Childermass, lives across the street. Johnny lives with his paternal grandparents in fictional Duston Heights, Massachusetts his mother died of cancer some time prior to the beginning of the series, and his father is a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force during the Korean War. Bagwell Glomus built an empire out of cereal. Alternatively, Johnny Dixon is the book series ("Johnny Dixon and the Professor" in ISFDB). Overview A clever young man and an eccentric professor search for a missing fortune, in this spooky adventure full of marvelous surprises (Publishers Weekly) H. In each book, 12-year-old Johnny and his group of friends face and overcome evil forces usually bent on ending the world. Johnny Dixon is a fictional American boy featured in a series of twelve children's gothic horror novels, 1983 to 1999, written by John Bellairs or his successor Brad Strickland. ![]()
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