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Author photo. Mary Downing Hahn. 2009 Baltimore Book Festival. ©2009

Mary Downing Hahn. 2009 Baltimore Book Festival. ©2009

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Mary Downing Hahn grew up in College Park, Maryland. After graduating college, she worked as an art teacher, a college instructor, and a children's librarian in Prince George's Public Library System. She published her first novel, The Sara Summer, at the age of 41. Since then, she has been a full-time writer and averages one book a year. Her ghost story Wait till Helen Comes was the winner of 12 state children's book awards and she received the Scott O'Dell award for her World War II novel Stepping on the Cracks. She currently lives with her husband in Columbia, Maryland. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Wait Till Helen Comes… (more)
Wait Till Helen Comes 1,924 copies, 71 reviews
Deep and Dark and Dangerous 1,458 copies, 71 reviews
All the Lovely Bad Ones 1,235 copies, 53 reviews
Closed for the Season 1,055 copies, 174 reviews
The Old Willis Place 1,041 copies, 26 reviews
Stepping on the Cracks 884 copies, 13 reviews
Took: A Ghost Story 734 copies, 21 reviews
The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall 722 copies, 30 reviews
Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story 539 copies, 14 reviews
Look for Me by Moonlight 398 copies, 13 reviews
The Dead Man in Indian Creek 347 copies, 10 reviews
One for Sorrow: A Ghost Story 297 copies, 8 reviews
Daphne's Book 286 copies, 8 reviews
Promises to the Dead 221 copies, 3 reviews
The Wind Blows Backward 184 copies, 5 reviews
Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls 184 copies, 8 reviews
Guest: A Changeling Tale 168 copies, 7 reviews
December Stillness 157 copies, 1 review
Witch Catcher 154 copies, 7 reviews
Tallahassee Higgins 123 copies, 1 review
The Time of the Witch 123 copies, 5 reviews
The Spanish Kidnapping Disaster 114 copies, 1 review
Hear the Wind Blow 98 copies, 9 reviews
As Ever, Gordy 90 copies, 1 review
Following My Own Footsteps 81 copies, 1 review
Anna All Year Round 63 copies, 1 review
Following the Mystery Man 60 copies, 3 reviews
Where I Belong 59 copies, 3 reviews
The Sara Summer 56 copies, 1 review
The Thirteenth Cat 27 copies, 1 review
What We Saw: A Thriller 26 copies, 1 review
Janey and the Famous Author 19 copies, 2 reviews
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