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With his sister, Darcy, getting married, 11 year old Rob just wants to stay out of everyone's way. His favorite hiding place is up the cherry tree, where he can watch everything, and everyone, including his cranky, old neighbor, Mrs. Calloway. After running into trouble with every member of his family, and Mrs. Calloway, Rob escapes to the cherry tree, where he witnesses someone pushing Mrs. Calloway out of her window, from which she falls, and is hanged to death on her binoculars strap. No one will listen to Rob when he tries to tell them, and now someone is trying to kill Rob.
Similar books: Nightmare by Loan Lowery Nixon; Alice, Rose & Sam by Kathryn Lasky; the Sammy Keyes series by Wendelin Van Draanen
Reviewed by: sc
Date read: 4/13/2009
ISBN-10: 0689717849
ISBN-13: 9780689717840
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Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn (1986), 192 pages
Audience: 4th Grade - 7th Grade
Molly and Michael resent their bratty new stepsister, Heather, and the family's move to the country. But Molly puts her feelings aside when she realizes the grave danger Heather is in, as she is drawn in, and ready to follow, a ghost to her doom.
Awards won: Rebecca Caudill Award
Reviewed by: sc
Date read: 4/29/2009
ISBN-10: 0899194532
ISBN-13: 9780899194530
Reader Comments
Ghost's Alive!Commenter: Camp Read-a-lot, grade 5
When a family came to a new house near a graveyard, they found out a ghost is alive!
Don't Talk to Strange Ghosts!Commenter: St. Charles Reader, grade 0
Molly and Michael dislike their stepsister Heather. What will they do when they find out that she's communicating with a ghost?
The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs, one of whom stands to inherit $200 million. But, in order to collect it, he or she has to expose the murderer, who also happens to be one of the heirs. This book won the Newbery Medal in 1979.
Awards won: John Newbery Medal
Reviewed by: sc
Date read: 4/12/2009
ISBN-10: 014240120X
ISBN-13: 9780142401200
Reader Comments
Gamey and ScaryCommenter: Anya, grade 4
this book is spooky and mostly about murderers.
Joshua and Artie have been best friends since Kindergarten. Over the years Artie has told some pretty amazing stories, claiming that 'It is really true!.' So when he tells Joshua that their neighbor has killed her husband and buried his body in the backyard, Joshua is sure that this is another flight of imagination. However there is a flower bed just about 7' long in the lady's backyard and her husband hasn't been seen in a while. When Joshua overhears a conversation in which the lady tells a neighbor that the poison worked well. Could Artie be on to something? Shouldn't they tell their parents or the police? Or, as Artie suggests, should they gather 'evidence,' like a dead body, before they tell anyone?
Reviewed by: caroll
Date read: 1/23/2010
ISBN-10: 1558855467
ISBN-13: 9781558855465
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