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Horror at the Haunted House

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It was a job any kid would kill for: to play a role in the Historical Society's Haunted House Halloween fundraising event. Ellen Streater was thrilled to play Joan of Arc, burning at the stake. It was for a good cause—to benefit the eerie old Clayton House, soon to reopen as a museum. They said the house was haunted. Ellen didn't believe it—until she felt a strange, icy feeling when she touched the beautiful Fairylustre bowl. Then she saw the ghost in the mirror—a beautiful phantom who beckoned her into a nightmare beyond her wildest dreams.

"Entertaining and appealing, with lively and believable young people and a personable ghost." —School Library Journal

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ISBN-13:	9781101661703
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	06/10/2002
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	986 KB
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Peg Kehret was born in Wisconsin, grew up in Minnesota, spent 14 years in California, and now lives with her husband in Washington. Kehret’s novels focus on ordinary kids in exciting situations who must then use their wits to solve problems. Regularly recommended by the American Library Association, the International Reading Association, and the Children's Book Council, her works include Danger at the Fair, Cages, Dangerous Deception, and Earthquake Terror. Kehret’s autobiography, Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio, won the Golden Kite Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, and the PEN Center USA West Award for Children's Literature.

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Gr 5-7-- Ellen and Cory, last seen in Terror at the Zoo (Cobblehill, 1992), agree to participate in a haunted house with a historical theme to raise money for an old mansion that is to be converted to a museum. As Joan of Arc, Ellen is tied to a stake while fake flames engulf her. In her time off, she admires the mansion's Wedgewood collection, especially the Fairylustre china. This interest attracts the attention of the ghost of the former mistress of the home, whom no one but Ellen (and in one incident, a sleepwalking Cory) can see. As Ellen attempts to discover what Lydia wants, she also uncovers a scheme involving the theft of the china; before the resolution of the mystery, she is in danger of meeting the same fate as Joan. The plot will keep readers involved and the inclusion of a ghost will satisfy requests for a scary book. Characterization is consistent with that in the previous title, although this one is more entertaining and appealing, with lively and believable young people and a personable ghost. A good addition to leisure reading collections. --Bruce Anne Shook, Mendenhall Middle School, Greensboro, NC

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Ellen and her younger brother, Corey, are thrilled at the prospect of participating in a Halloween haunted house project at a local historical museum. But when Ellen enters the place, she becomes aware of an uncomfortable presence and soons realizes that "she" is being haunted--by the ghost of a young woman named Lydia who died three years earlier. During the week before Halloween, Ellen gradually overcomes her fear of Lydia's ghost and unravels a mystery involving Lydia's fabulous collection of Wedgwood china. Readers who enjoyed Ellen and Corey's adventures in "Terror at the Zoo" will be waiting in line for this action-packed novel, which combines a good mystery with an exciting ghost story, a little danger, and a satisfying ending that ties everything up neatly.

Chris Sherman

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