The author of wildly popular ghost stories, Mary Downing Hahn has created a group of tales for fans of her "scary but not too scary" books. Even the stories without actual ghosts are spooky. Each tale turns something ordinary - a pigeon, a white dress, a stranger on the bus, a puppet - into a sinister link to to the supernatural. For the human characters, secrets from the past or careless behaviour in the present can lead to serious trouble. All the stories have a young person as the central character, so all will resonate with young readers who enjoy the eerie, the creepy, and the otherworldly. In a concluding note, the author talks about how she came to write ghost stories. AGES: 8 to 12 AUTHOR: Mary Downing Hahn, a former children's librarian, is the award-winning author of many popular ghost stories. Her work has won more than fifty child-voted state awards. An avid reader, traveller, and all-around arts lover, Ms. Hahn lives in Columbia, Maryland.

Book Information
ISBN 9780358067320
Author Mary Downing Hahn
Format Hardback
Page Count 192
Imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company