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Loading... Behind the Attic Wallby Sylvia Cassedy
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  jeane | Oct 23, 2009 |  This book enchanted me at just the right age, when my childhood enchantment with the world was starting to fade. It made me believe in the power of the imagination once again, and most probably saved me from turning down too realistic a road in my philosophy on life. I know that sounds like a lot of importance to give a simple book like this, but it truly was the right book at the right time. I'm convinced that my imagination and creativity are very much alive today as a result of having read this book 15 years ago. (  ) ChiaraBeth | Oct 9, 2009 | I loved this book. The cover is an accurate portrayal of the punchline - Orphan Maggie always feels like a ghost at all the boarding schools she has been sent to. When she gets sent to live with her great aunts at a now defunct boarding school, she finds real ghosts - and they become her dearest friends. (  ) BridgetMarie | Jul 8, 2009 | A little odd. I really like Uncle Morris. (  ) esthella | Mar 26, 2009 | This is a great book about an orphan who goes to live with two aunts and finds friends in a group of dolls who live in a secret room in the house. irishmomjeanne | Nov 21, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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They were watching...and waiting
At twelve, Maggie had been thrown out of more boarding schools than she cared to remember. "Impossible to handle," they said -- nasty, mean, disobedient, rebellious, thieving -- anything they could say to explain why she must be removed from the school.
Maggie was thin and pale, with shabby clothes and stringy hair, when she arrived at her new home. "It was a mistake to bring her here," said Maggie's great-aunts, whose huge stone house looked like another boarding school -- or a prison. But they took her in anyway. After all, aside from Uncle Morris, they were Maggie's only living relatives.
But from behind the closet door in the great and gloomy house, Maggie hears the faint whisperings, the beckoning voices. And in the forbidding house of her ancestors, Maggie finds magic...the kind that lets her, for the first time, love and be loved.
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