The puppet's payback and other chilling tales / Mary Downing Hahn.
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. |
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Genre: | Paranormal fiction. Ghost stories. Horror fiction. Short stories. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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North Kansas City Public Library | J HAHN (Text) | 0001002426417 | JUV Fiction | Available | - |