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Mary Downing Hahn
"Folks say Old Auntie takes a girl and keeps her fifty years--then lets her go and takes another one." Thirteen-year-old Daniel Anderson doesn't believe Brody Mason's crazy stories about the ghost witch who lives up on Brewster's Hill with Bloody Bones, her man-eating razorback hog. He figures Brody's probably just trying to scare him since he's the new kid . . . a "stuck-up snot" from Connecticut. But Daniel's seven-year-old sister Erica has become more and more withdrawn, talking to her lookalike doll. When she disappears into the woods one day, he knows something is terribly wrong. Did the witch strike? Has Erica been "took"?
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Author
Mary Downing Hahn
Pages
264
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published Date
2015
ISBN
0544551532 9780544551534
Ratings
Google: 4
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"So far out of all the middle grade horror books I’ve read this is the least scary. It can be a little bit creepy moments but it wasn’t scary. It is easy to predict every single event before it happens. A person that has never read the book before could give me a good summery. Usually, a book being predictable is last on the list for things that will bother me about a book. It is the journey not the destination that matters. One: the predictably took away from the fear. <br/><br/> And Two: the journey wasn’t that good. The story was slow and the characters were annoying. I honestly didn’t care if they died. The sister (Erica) was very winey. She was one of those kids that cries and she gets cradled for it. Her parents gives her toys and more love than her brother (Daniel) to make her stop crying. <br/><br/>Speaking of the parents they are one of the worst parents in fiction without being evil. <br/>1. They don’t have that many scenes showing love for Daniel. I believe that the parents care for their kid and they are still nice but it’s one of those parents that don’t know how to parent.<br/>2. When Daniel tries to tell them something weird that happened they think that he’s making it up. They don’t even check it out.<br/>3. let their kids wonder alone<br/>4. Everything is always Daniel’s fault<br/>5. Solution to bullying is to ignore it<br/><br/>The book follows the trope of kids being the heros and the adults being useless and being dumber than a box of rocks. Daniel is a kid but he talks like an adult. All the kids except the brother and sister play the role of the bully. They constantly pick on the main characters and the adults don’t care and are useless."
"i liked this because it was truly spooky and it was so fun to read"
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