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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. 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 | A young orphan girl named Maggie goes to live with her great-aunts in a mysterious old house that used to be a boarding school. Maggie discovers a haunted room in the attic where a pair of china dolls calmly invite her to have tea with them. She visits the dolls often and eventually solves the mystery of who they really are. Maggie's Uncle Morris is like the Cheshire cat, appearing unexpectedly and saying the oddest things that only confuse and annoy the poor girl. Maggie seems to be the only sane creature in the book, even though she is the one hearing voices in the walls and chatting pleasantly with haunted china dolls. This was a cute book and reminded me of another book I read when I was a kid. It was also about a girl finding a haunted dollhouse in an attic. I think it was called The Dollhouse Murders, but I'm not sure. (  )kaliki44 | Aug 3, 2008 | 1  In the bleak, forbidding house of her great-aunts, neglected twelve-year-old orphan Maggie hears ghostly voices and finds magic that awakens in her the capacity to love and be loved prkcs | Apr 25, 2008 | 1 |  0.072 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0380698439, Paperback)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. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:08 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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