The Girl in the Locked Room: A Ghost Story
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Jules and her family are living on the Oak Hill property while her father restores the house, and Jules thinks something terrible happened there. Her sense of foreboding turns to fascination after she sees a ghostly face in the window.
ISBN: 9781328850928
JLG Release: Oct 2018
Sensitive Areas:
Mention of domestic violence
Topics:
Ghosts
, Friendship
, Extrasensory perception
, Fate and fatalism
, Haunted houses
, Family life
, Virginia
, Girls and women
Praise & Reviews
Starred or favorable reviews have been received from these periodicals:
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Horn Book
The story opens with a girl locked in an attic room. She doesn’t know who she is,
why she’s there, or how long she has occupied the house. Time marches on, and
the girl becomes a fainter and fainter presence, until twelve-year-old Jules moves
in to the house with her family. Jules is, once again, the new kid in town, and
once again longing for The story opens with a girl locked in an attic room. She doesn’t know who she is,
why she’s there, or how long she has occupied the house. Time marches on, and
the girl becomes a fainter and fainter presence, until twelve-year-old Jules moves
in to the house with her family. Jules is, once again, the new kid in town, and
once again longing for some kind of permanence. But this new setting proves
unsettling as Jules (and at first only Jules) begins seeing the girl and visions of the
past. Through alternating chapters, readers discover that the girl is a ghost and
that she’s been hiding for one hundred and fifty years. Jules gets glimpses of the
girl’s post–Civil War life, of her loving family, and of the danger they faced in
their own time. Ever the librarian, author Hahn weaves a little reader’s advisory
into her tale, linking the girls’ task with Diana Wynne Jones’s Chrestomanci
series. Less sophisticated and suspenseful than Hahn’s last novel (One for Sorrow,
rev. 5/17), this ghost story is successful in exploring its dual plots: one of a young
girl who wants to stay where she is, and the other of a girl who wants to move on.
betty carter
Book Details
ISBN
9781328850928
First Release
October 2018
Genre
Fic
Dewey Classification
F
Trim Size
Page Count
200
Accelerated Reader
Level 4.3; Points: 5;
Scholastic Reading Counts
Level 4.7; Points: 9;
Lexile
Level HL650L
Format
Print Book
Edition
Hardcover edition
Publisher
Clarion
Potentially Sensitive Areas
Mention of domestic violence
Topics
Ghosts, Friendship, Extrasensory perception, Fate and fatalism, Haunted houses, Family life, Virginia, Girls and women,
