Jane-Emily (1969)

by Patricia Clapp

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While spending the summer in an old Massachusetts house, an eighteen-year-old girl and her niece become increasingly aware of the presence of a spirit that seems determined to harm them.

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loved this story, super creepy. great ending. (

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SabethaDanes | Jan 30, 2023 |

I’d never heard of this book or author, but I saw it mentioned in a discussion in a Borders Facebook group, and I was intrigued. Based on the discussion, I expected it to be scarier, but it was still enjoyably creepy. I liked the first-person narration and the old-fashioned, atmospheric writing. Every time I see a lawn globe, I’ll think of this book and give it a wide berth. (

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Harks | Dec 17, 2022 |

A pretty good ghost story, but outdated, patriarcal, and (the one time the book mentions a person of color) kinda racist. (

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mutantpudding | Dec 26, 2021 |

This book terrified and delighted me as a child. It was a book I remembered as an adult, but did not recall the title. It took a while, but finally Professor Google helped me narrow it down and purchase it. It scared me just as much reading it as an adult. (

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cedarwaxwing | Feb 15, 2021 |

I loved this book when I was a kid; nice to see that it is available again in print so that my daughter can read it, too. (

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Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee – 1970-1971)

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Library of Congress Children's Literature Center Children's Books (Stories for the Middle Group – 1969)

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While spending the summer in an old Massachusetts house, an eighteen-year-old girl and her niece become increasingly aware of the presence of a spirit that seems determined to harm them.

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Emily was a selfish, willful, hateful child who died before her thirteenth birthday. But that was a long time ago.

Jane is nine years old and an orphan when she and her young Aunt Louisa come to spend the summer at Jane's grandmother's house, a large, mysterious mansion in Massachusetts. Then one day . . . Jane stares into a reflecting ball in the garden - and the face that looks back at her is not her own.

Many years earlier, a child of rage and malevolence lived in this place. And she never left. Now Emily has dark plans for little Jane - a blood-chilling purpose that Louisa, just a girl herself, must battle with all her heart, soul, and spirit . . . or she will lose her innocent, helpless niece forever.

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