This is one I've wanted to read for a long time. I remember asking my parents to get it for me and their refusing, on the grounds of its being about dolls and having a purple cover. Eventually they realized that it wasn't purple covered books that was making me gay, but that's another story. I found...
When you work at a library, it's not uncommon for discussion to center around books. So imagine, one day, my colleagues and I are discussing the juvenile classics of the 80s. (By the way, this conversation was birthed while browsing the pages of Paperback Crush by Gabrielle Moss.) From this conversa...
The Dollhouse Murders is the first chapter book that my sister ever read (over 25 years ago!), and ever since then she's been encouraging me to read it. I'm glad I did!The book, aimed at 4th-6th graders, is creepy and chilling without being too intense for kids in this age range. In fact, today's ki...
Hmm..... Nostalgia is wonderful, isn't it? I remember reading this book when I was still in middle school. It was my first ghostly mystery story and it had every little part of exciting, spine-chilling thrill, as far as I can remember. I was young and I was easily startled and this book had the elem...
Amy is 12 years old, about to be 13 and she is tired of taking care of her sister. Amy's sister, Louanna, is mentally challenged. One day at the mall, when Amy was supposed to spend the day with her friend Ellen and she was made to bring Louanna, everything goes wrong. Amy has had enough and tells h...
A reread from childhood and I loved it as much then as now. I have to say, there were aspects I remembered well and new things that were revealed to me. As a child, this scared the daylights out of me and I was hesitant to pick this up :) The story has elements of supernatural that enhance the story...
Re-read this old favorite in between the trick-or-treaters the other night. It was definitely a favorite when I was a kid ... the idea of a perfect miniature of your own house, complete with haunted dolls and a murder mystery? Awesome. (Plus it was easy enough to read in little bites while waitin...
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