Fun and Sad at the Same Time

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	• Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story (Avon Camelot Books) Mary Downing Hahn HarperTrophy, 1987 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 152 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

classic read

i was searching for a totally different book from my childhood for my 5 year old daughter (a version of stone soup with two traveling pigs who happen up on a village of other animals... i can't remember the author, so i'm having quite a bit of trouble), when this book suddenly came to mind. i enjoyed it so much 20 years ago, i thought i'd see if it was still in print today. to my delight, it was and i just ordered a copy for myself. can't wait to read it again!

Simply the best

I first read "Wait Till Helen Comes" over 16 years now and it's a book I still think about. I re-read it about 3 years ago and might have even loved it more the second time. I recently passed it on to a little girl who also loved it. It transcends time and is fantastically haunting.

You can't help but engross yourself in the book from page one and I constantly flipped back and forth from where I was in the story to the map. Helen is an amazing character as they all are and who didn't want to give Heather a big kick in the butt. Soooooo good!

Sure it's a young adult's book but the plot and characters will never be forgotten in my mind. I only hope one day this is turned into a movie because if done correctly it would be amazing. LOVE IT! LOVE IT! LOVE IT! A must read.

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AWESOME!!

This is an awesome book. I really like it because it is scary, but then has a happy ending. I got it at my school's book fair and read it all that day, it was so good! You should totally get it!!

Fun and Sad at the Same Time

This book started out slow and picked up after the first chapter,but lacked imagination further into the plot, and the author wrote as if hurrying to finish so actually skipped whole scenes and jumped from one scene to another leaving the reader confused and having to go back and re-read but still, I gave it a four star becuase as far as CHILDREN'S books goes, it was scary in parts and would do for the age group it's intended for.

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A childhood favorite

When I was younger I was pretty much obsessed with this book. As in I was the dorky girl that checked it out from the elementary school library over and over again in a most obsessive fashion.

But why not? Not all adult horror writers always turn their talent to children's literature for a book or two. So why can't children have a truly scary book guaranteed to send shivers up the spine? Really, this book used to give me all kinds of nightmares. Now that is a book that has an impact.

Ms. Hahn manages to paint the classic horror scenario. A new family, still unsure of each other. Spooky New England world. Untamed countryside. Old church. Burnt house. All the necessities.

Even with the horror that lurks in this story, this is still definitely a novel for kids, one that has a story about growing up, becoming a family, and making friends. It may be scary, but there is a lot of heart.

A classic for the ages.

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Beware of Helen...

Heather is such a whiny little brat. Always getting Michael and me into trouble. But since our mother married her father, we're stuck with her...our "poor stepsister" who lost her real mother in a mysterious fire.

But now something terrible has happened. Heather has found a new friend, out in the graveyard behind our home -- a girl named Helen who died with her family in a mysterious fire over a hundred years ago. Now her ghost returns to lure children into the pond...to drown! I don't want to believe in ghosts, but I've followed Heather into the graveyard and watch her talk to Helen. And I'm terrified. Not for myself, but for Heather...

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