House of Stairs

Paw Prints 2008. Turtleback binding of the 1991 Puffin mass market paperback edition, This is a very popular and engaging science fiction novel for teen / young adult readers. First published in 1974. One by one, five sixteen-year-old orphans are brought to a strange building. It is not a prison, not a hospital; it has no walls, no ceiling, no floor. Nothing but endless flights of stairs leading nowhere except back to a strange red machine. The five must learn to love the machine and let it rule their lives. But will they let it kill their souls?