Hahn, Mary Downing Took: A Ghost Story, 264 pages. CLARION
BOOKS, 2015. Language-G (0 swear, 0 "f"s) Mature Content-G;
Violence-G;
Daniel's parents force him and his younger sister to move from
their comfortable life in Connecticut, to an old, creaky house, placed in the
forest of West Virginia. No one at school is nice to them and the students
share freaky stories about a witch called Old Auntie, who every fifty years
takes a little girl from Daniel's house. But Daniel thinks these are just
stories meant to scare him, until his sister disappears into the forest.
I
liked this book. I was worried, the title made it sound very scary, and
although I could not sleep until I finished the book, I appreciate how it was
not as scary as I thought it would be. I especially loved how a few times the
story was written from Old Auntie's point of view, which also helped to make
her seem less scary.
EL, MS- ADVISABLE. Student Reviewer: MMH
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