Interest Level: 5-8 grade
Reading Level: 5.3
Lexile: 690
Genre: Horror/Ghost Stories Currently on pg. 244, chapter 37
Amazon calls this book a Victorian ghost story with shades of Washington Irving, author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The story follows two abandoned Irish siblings who travel to work as servants at a creepy, crumbling English manor house. The house and its family are not what they appear to be. The children are confronted by a mysterious entity and an ancient curse.
I am enjoying this story. I am not a fan of scary stories but can see the appeal to other readers. I have had one unpleasant element added to a dream because to this dream. That in itself will be enough of a recommendation to get some middle school students to read it.
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