Description : "What a sinister place to live!" Polly exclaims the very first moment she sees her cousins's house. "I'll bet it's haunted."
"It is not!" Frederick snaps back. "And there's no such thing as a ghost!"
But before long, even Frederick begins to wonder. As for Polly.... she must find out the truth about the lonely 19th century girl who comes alive each night in Polly's frighening dreams
149 Pages
Ages 9-12
My thoughts on this book : Well, firstly, I got this book for free from the lady on Barton Street that used to own a Thrift shop.One day while walking home, something caught my eye.. In the back of this Thrift Shop, there were walls and boxes filled with books..and the 10 cents each was also a huge attraction. After a while of going there and buying more books than I could carry, she told me that she was closing down,and that I could come and take as many books as I wanted for free. She said how funny it was to watch me rifle through piles and piles of books,sneezing and hopping and climbing all over the place. I guess she was like me. I'd rather give my books away and see them used than put in the garbage.So I went a few times and grabbed boxes and boxes of books. The last of what was left, Lori-Anne and I loaded into her brothers car and we took them home.
I dug out this book a few months ago (yes,I own so many,it takes me a while to get around to all of them). Watching TV and being on the computer for more than and hour would make me really nauseated and dizzy,so I started reading A LOT. An upside to pregnancy,I guess.
I really liked this book.It is something I will read again for sure. Polly and her younger siblings are sent away to stay with their aunt,uncle and cousin Simon while their sick mother recuperates. The children are at an opposite, with Polly and her sibling having a love for magic and storytelling and mystery,and the cold hard reality of Simon and his parents who believe in facts and reason. Naturally they think Polly is lying when she tells them that she has dreams and hears the crying of 19th century ghost Sarah. Sarah's rich mother was disowned after she married a commoner.After her mother's death, she is sent to live with her only relative, her mother's brother Samuel, who deeply disliked her mother and now her. When others are around, she is his niece, when they aren't,she is his servant. Polly is desperate to help Sarah,and find out what happened to her, but she doesn't know how. And, in the strange new environment, her best bet is to get her family to believe her.The story goes back and forth, from present to past, but it is not hard to follow. I imagine it is a great book to read to your kids a chapter at a time.Buy this one for your kids..or yourself :)
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