Wait Till Helen Comes
Books | Juvenile Fiction / Horror
4.3
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Mary Downing Hahn
Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their seven-year-old stepsister, Heather. Ever since their parents got married, she's made Molly and Michael's life miserable. Now their parents have moved them all to the country to live in a house that used to be a church, with a cemetery in the backyard. If that's not bad enough, Heather starts talking to a ghost named Helen and warning Molly and Michael that Helen is coming for them. Molly feels certain Heather is in some kind of danger, but every time she tries to help, Heather twists things around to get her into trouble. It seems as if things can't get any worse.But they do—when Helen comes.
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Author
Mary Downing Hahn
Pages
208
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published Date
2008-04-21
ISBN
0547346034 9780547346038
Ratings
Google: 4.5
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"beautiful and lyrical, like 'the haunting of hill house' but for kids. i really loved it. also the parents are horrible at being parents and i love that the author understands it, even if the kids love their parents too much to grasp that fact with much nuance. the neglect, denial, and disproportionate responsibility these adults place on their kids is incredible, yet all too real."
"SO good and my absolute favorite book as a kid, but everyone else I knew that read it were terrified, so maybe read it yourself before you hand it over to your 5th grader lol"
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Morgan Wittmer