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Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn
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Wait Till Helen Comes

by Mary Downing Hahn

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This was a fairly satisfying ghost story, sure to provide thrills and chills to intermediate-level readers. Molly and Michael have a new stepsister, Heather, who is making their lives unpleasant. When Molly discovers Heather may be possessed by a ghost, she's got to figure out how to help her - before it's too late!

I enjoyed it for what it was; I have to say that the blended-family dynamics probably played out more realistically than your average Brady Bunch episode; but the parenting still really bothered me in this book - Heather's dad is outright mean to Molly and Michael. I'd have a very hard time accepting his behavior from my spouse or from any interloping stepdad! But it sure ratcheted up the tension in the book, which I'm sure was the author's purpose. ( )
  allawishus | Jul 20, 2009 |
An amazing heart warming spookyish book. It's an easy read. ( )
  CandyKittyChan | May 1, 2009 |
Finally a copy of my own. Very well-written, remarkably scary book for the intended age group. Involves a not-so-happily blended family, and the struggles Molly has trying to adjust to a younger stepsister who is manipulative and spoiled. Hard enough to do, even without the interference of a ghost. ( )
  MerryMary | Mar 20, 2008 |
This book is "below" my reading level, but I've read it five times and love it every single time. It's creepy and suspenseful. ( )
  Heather19 | Mar 27, 2007 |
It took me a long time to learn to resist the temptation to read such creepy books. ( )
  eslee | Mar 18, 2007 |
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0380704420, Paperback)

Beware of Helen...

Heather is such a whiny little brat. Always getting Michael and me into trouble. But since our mother married her father, we're stuck with her...our "poor stepsister" who lost her real mother in a mysterious fire.

But now something terrible has happened. Heather has found a new friend, out in the graveyard behind our home -- a girl named Helen who died with her family in a mysterious fire over a hundred years ago. Now her ghost returns to lure children into the pond...to drown! I don't want to believe in ghosts, but I've followed Heather into the graveyard and watch her talk to Helen. And I'm terrified. Not for myself, but for Heather...

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