# The Curse of the Blue Figurine

**Author:** John Bellairs
**Grade range:** Grades 6–8
**Age range:** 11–13
**First published:** 1983
**Page count:** 200
**Genre:** Mystery
**ISBN-13:** `9780439252911`
**ISBN-10:** `0439252911`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-curse-of-the-blue-figurine
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Johnny Dixon doesn't believe that the ghost of mad Father Baart haunts the town church. But then he takes an old scroll and a seemingly harmless figurine from the church basement, accepts a magic ring from a mysterious stranger--and is plunged into a terrifying adventure that may cost him his life.

## Themes

- horror stories
- mystery and detective stories
- dixon, johnny (personnage fictif)
- antiquités (objets anciens)

## Where this book is assigned

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1986-1987 winner (Middle)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1986-1987 winner (Middle)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1986-1987 winner (Middle)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)

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