Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

680L, Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The puppet's payback and other chilling tales

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Mary Downing Hahn

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Accelerated Reader AR, MG, 4.6, 5, 509255.

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

Target audience

juvenile

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Puppet's payback & other chilling talesPuppet's payback

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