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The puppet's payback and other chilling tales / Mary Downing Hahn.

Hahn, Mary Downing, (author.). Hahn, Mary Downing. Container of (work) : Number seven bus. (Added Author). Hahn, Mary Downing. Container of (work) : 213 Poplar Street. (Added Author). Hahn, Mary Downing. Container of (work) : Grounding of Theresa. (Added Author). Hahn, Mary Downing. Container of (work) : Real thing. (Added Author). Hahn, Mary Downing. Container of (work) : Trouble afoot. (Added Author). Hahn, Mary Downing. Container of (work) : Puppet's payback. (Added Author). Hahn, Mary Downing. Container of (work) : New girl. (Added Author). Hahn, Mary Downing. Container of (work) : Little blue jacket. (Added Author). Hahn, Mary Downing. Container of (work) : Last house on Crescent Road. (Added Author). Hahn, Mary Downing. Container of (work) : Thirteenth pigeon. (Added Author).

Summary:

The author of wildly popular ghost stories, Mary Downing Hahn has created a group of tales for fans of her "scary but not too scary" books. Even the stories without actual ghosts are spooky. Each tale turns something ordinary-a pigeon, a white dress, a stranger on the bus, a puppet-into a sinister link to the supernatural. For the human characters, secrets from the past or careless behavior in the present can lead to serious trouble. All the stories have a young person as the central character, so all will resonate with young readers who enjoy the eerie, the creepy, and the otherworldly. In a concluding note, the author talks about how she came to write ghost stories.

Record details

ISBN: 9780358067320
ISBN: 0358067324
ISBN: 9780358539780
ISBN: 0358539781
Physical Description: 184 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher: New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ©2020.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Some stories were published previously in slightly different forms."--Title page verso.
Formatted Contents Note:	Number seven bus -- 213 Poplar Street -- Grounding of Theresa -- Real thing -- Trouble afoot -- Puppet's payback -- New girl -- Little blue jacket -- Last house on Crescent Road -- Thirteenth pigeon -- Afterword: What makes me write ghost stories?
Target Audience Note:	8-12 years 680L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.6 5 509255.