


After spending a few days at the Holiday House, he wanders the grounds and discovers a slimy, creepy pond and inside, large gray fish making small circles. When Harvey makes a seemingly impossible Christmas wish and it comes true, he begins to have suspicions about the house being a true work of magic. That night, Harvey and Wendell celebrate Halloween and later in the evening, as white snow blankets the lush gardens, Christmas. Harvey soon realizes that something is up with the house when a warm summer quickly fades to fall in the course of an hour or two. During the feast he meets a boy his age, Wendell, who speaks of another resident of the house named Lulu. At the House, he attends a large feast prepared by the housekeeper Mrs.

Harvey agrees to go with the man to the Holiday House, a large house that has the aura of old magic. One day, as Harvey is sitting in his bedroom feeling bored with his life, a mysterious man appears in his room, speaking of excitement and fun. In "The Thief of Always," Harvey Swick, a boy by the age of eleven, finds himself trapped inside a mystical prison invented by the elusive Mr.
