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Mary Downing Hahn
From master of middle grade horror Mary Downing Hahn, a new thriller about bravery, unexpected friendship, and sinister cats that will captivate readers with its chilling mix of mystery and…
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Daphne is the last person Jessica wants to work with on the Write-a-Book project, but her feelings change when she gets to know Daphne and stumbles on her terrible secret.
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Daniel doesn’t believe the woods behind his new home are haunted by an evil witch and her terrifying beast. But then his little sister disappears … and it’s up to…
In this graphic novel adaptation of master horror storyteller Mary Downing Hahn’s spookiest and most popular tale, two siblings must save their stepsister from the clutches of a vengeful ghost.
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When her widower father inherits a castlelike estate in the mountains of West Virginia, twelve-year-old Jen is thrilled. It seems like a wish come true. But she quickly realizes that…
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The ultimate gift for young readers who love thrills, chills, and spooky stories, here are three haunting tales from award-winning master of middle grade horror Mary Downing Hahn, together in…
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Mary Downing Hahn combines powerful characters, dark secrets, and breathtaking suspense in a compelling Civil War-era story listeners won't soon forget. Aiding and abetting an escaped slave is against the…
Margaret and Elizabeth support everything about the war: the troops, the reasons for going to war, even the food rations. After all, this is the good war and the Americans…
Fourteen-year-old Kelly tries to befriend Mr. Weems, a disturbed, homeless Vietnam War veteran who spends his days in her suburban library, though the man makes it clear he wants to…
When Matt and Parker learn the body they found in Indian Creek is a drug-related death, they fear Parker’s mother may be involved.
Alienated, bullied, a classic underachiever, 12-year-old Brendan retreats into his fantasy world and then faces the long and demanding journey to a real world where he belongs.
During the 1918 influenza epidemic, new girl at school Annie is claimed as best friend by Elsie, a classmate who is a tattletale, a liar, and a thief. Soon Annie…
While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, 16-year-old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father’s new family and finds solace…
A white boy helps a black child escape slavery in the midst of the Civil War
Arthur and Logan, set out to solve the mystery of a murder that had taken place years ago in the old house Logan’s family has just moved into. The boys’…
While vacationing in Maine,12-year-old Ali meets Sissy, a kid who’s mean spiteful. Sissy keeps talking about a girl named Teresa who drowned under mysterious circumstances and whose body was never…
In this Civil War-era story by favorite author Mary Downing Hahn, a boy makes a decision to harbor a wounded Confederate soldier at his family’s Virginia farm, setting off a…
Daniel Anderson doesn’t believe Brody Mason’s stories about the ghost witch who lives up on Brewster’s Hill with Bloody Bones, her man eating razorback hog. But Daniel’s seven year old…
Travis and his sister, Corey, can’t resist a good trick. When they learn that their grandmother’s quiet Vermont inn, where they’re spending the summer, has a history of ghost sightings…
While camping near Indian Creek, Matt and his best friend, Parker, get up early to see if they can spot a blue heron. Instead, they find the body of a…
Another historical and chilling success of revenge from beyond the grave during the 1918 influenza outbreak from ghost story master Mary Downing Hahn. (Kirkus)
From the master of spookiness, Mary Downing Hahn. When malicious sprites called the Kinde Folke snatch Mollie’s baby brother and replace him with a hideous changeling, Mollie travels through eerie…
From ghost story master Mary Downing Hahn, an assortment of eerie short stories to thrill and chill young readers.
A family moves into an old, abandoned house. Jules’s parents love the house, but Jules is frightened and feels a sense of foreboding.
A chilling murder mystery lies at the heart of this page-turning thriller about a missing teacher, small town secrets, and turbulent tween friendships from master of middle grade horror Mary…
The ultimate gift for young readers who love thrills, chills, and spooky stories, here are eight terrifying tales from award-winning master of middle grade horror Mary Downing Hahn, in an…
This fictional re-creation of a crime that happened in Hahn’s Maryland hometown in 1955Nthe murder of two teenage girlsNis at once a mystery and a coming-of-age story. Told from several…
Molly and Michael dislike their spooky new stepsister Heather but realize that they must try to save her when she seems ready to follow a ghost child to her doom.
Ali finds an old photograph and recognizes her mother and her aunt as children, but a third person has been torn out of the picture. Who could it be? Then…
Florence looks forward to a new life with her great uncle and aunt at an old manor house. But Florence doesn’t expect the ghost of her cousin Sophia, who concocts…
This award-winning novel is now available in paperback. After Ashley and Kristi find an antique doll buried in old Miss Cooper’s garden, they discover that they can enter a ghostly…
Andrew can feel the presence of his ancestors in Great-Aunt Blythe’s old house. His fantasies of ghosts and the past become all too real when another Andrew, who lived at…
The acclaimed and award-winning author of Hear the Wind Blow pens a chilling ghost story in the tradition of her most successful spine-tingling novels. The intriguing characters, frightening secrets, and…
From the master of spookiness, Mary Downing Hahn, comes a tale of malicious sprites called the Kinde Folke who snatch Mollie’s baby brother and replace him with a hideous changeling…
Three of Hahn’s scariest ghost stories are packaged together in this handsome boxed set: Wait Till Helen Comes, All the Lovely Bad Ones, and Deep and Dark and Dangerous.
Meet a malicious hand puppet that’s as much a part of your body as your hand itself. Attend a school that prepares students not for life, but for death. Witness…
When he and his younger sister move in with their older brother after their grandmother dies, thirteen-year-old Gordy finds himself caught between the boy he was when he lived with…
Ghost story master Mary Downing Hahn unrolls the suspenseful, spine-chilling yarn of a girl imprisoned for more than a century, the terrifying events that put her there, and a friendship…
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