| Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story Contributor(s): Hahn, Mary Downing (Author) |
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ISBN: 0380704420 ISBN-13: 9780380704422 Publisher: HarperCollins OUR PRICE: $8.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1987 Annotation: Beware of Helen... Heather is such a whiny little brat. Always getting Michael and me into trouble. But since our mother married her father, we're stuck with her...our "poor stepsister" who lost her real mother in a mysterious fire. But now something terrible has happened. Heather has found a new friend, out in the graveyard behind our home -- a girl named Helen who died with her family in a mysterious fire over a hundred years ago. Now her ghost returns to lure children into the pond...to drown! I don't want to believe in ghosts, but I've followed Heather into the graveyard and watch her talk to Helen. And I'm terrified. Not for myself, but for Heather... |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Horror - Juvenile Fiction | Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories - Juvenile Fiction | Family - Siblings |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 86002648 |
| Lexile Measure: 750 |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.28" W x 7.5" (0.30 lbs) 192 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 596 Reading Level: 4.6 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 5.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Beware of Helen... Heather is such a whiny little brat. Always getting Michael and me into trouble. But since our mother married her father, we're stuck with her...our poor stepsister who lost her real mother in a mysterious fire. But now something terrible has happened. Heather has found a new friend, out in the graveyard behind our home -- a girl named Helen who died with her family in a mysterious fire over a hundred years ago. Now her ghost returns to lure children into the pond...to drown I don't want to believe in ghosts, but I've followed Heather into the graveyard and watch her talk to Helen. And I'm terrified. Not for myself, but for Heather... |
Contributor Bio(s): Hahn, Mary Downing: - Mary Downing Hahn is the best-selling author of more than twenty award-winning books for young readers, including Stepping on the Cracks, which won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Anna on the Farm is the follow-up to Anna All Year Round, both based on the author's mother's memoirs about growing up in Maryland pre-World War I. |