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Wait Till Helen Comes
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Wait Till Helen Comes
by Mary Downing HahnMolly moves to the country and encounters the ghost of a 5-year-old girl, bent on destroying her family. "A powerful, convincing, and frightening talethe pace never slackens."—SLJ starred review
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Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story
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Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story
by Mary Downing HahnMolly, the 12-year-old narrator, and her brother Michael dislike their bratty 5-year-old stepsister Heather and resent the family move to an isolated converted church in the country. The adjourning graveyard frightens Molly, but Heather seems drawn to it. Molly discovers that the ghost of a child (Helen) who died in a fire a century ago wants to lure Heather to her doom. Molly determines to save her stepsister. In so doing, she learns that Heather's strange behavior stems from her feelings of guilt at having accidentally caused her mother's death by playing near a stove and starting a fire. Eventually, Molly wrests Heather from Helen's arms as the ghost attempts to drown them. The girls discover the skeletons of Helen's parents, and their burial finally puts to rest Helen's spirit.
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Ages 9-12 $5.99
Interest Level:
6-8
Lexile Framework:
750L
Grade Level Equivalent:
4.7
Guided Reading Level:
U
Age:
11-13
Genre:
Supernatural
Subject:
Friends and Friendship, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Witches, Siblings
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...
