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Mary Downing Hahn

Auteur van Wait Till Helen Comes

50+ Werken 15,303 Leden 626 Besprekingen Favoriet van 18 leden

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Mary Downing Hahn grew up in College Park, Maryland. After graduating college, she worked as an art teacher, a college instructor, and a children's librarian in Prince George's Public Library System. She published her first novel, The Sara Summer, at the age of 41. Since then, she has been a toon meer full-time writer and averages one book a year. Her ghost story Wait till Helen Comes was the winner of 12 state children's book awards and she received the Scott O'Dell award for her World War II novel Stepping on the Cracks. She currently lives with her husband in Columbia, Maryland. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Mary Downing Hahn. 2009 Baltimore Book Festival. ©2009

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Werken van Mary Downing Hahn

Wait Till Helen Comes (1986) 1,999 exemplaren
Deep and Dark and Dangerous (2007) 1,522 exemplaren
All the Lovely Bad Ones (2008) 1,290 exemplaren
Closed for the Season (2009) 1,079 exemplaren
The Old Willis Place (2004) 1,079 exemplaren
Stepping on the Cracks (1991) 897 exemplaren
Took: A Ghost Story (2015) 817 exemplaren
The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall (2010) 763 exemplaren
Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story (1994) 560 exemplaren
Look for Me by Moonlight (1995) 407 exemplaren
The Dead Man in Indian Creek (1990) 354 exemplaren
One for Sorrow: A Ghost Story (2017) 320 exemplaren
Daphne's Book (1983) 295 exemplaren
Promises to the Dead (2000) 231 exemplaren
Guest: A Changeling Tale (2019) 197 exemplaren
Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls (2012) 191 exemplaren
The Wind Blows Backward (1993) 187 exemplaren
The Gentleman Outlaw and Me - Eli (1996) 181 exemplaren
Witch Catcher (2006) 163 exemplaren
December Stillness (1988) 158 exemplaren
The Time of the Witch (1982) 125 exemplaren
Tallahassee Higgins (1994) 124 exemplaren
The Spanish Kidnapping Disaster (1991) 117 exemplaren
Hear the Wind Blow (2003) 101 exemplaren
As Ever, Gordy (1998) 92 exemplaren
The Jellyfish Season (1987) 82 exemplaren
Following My Own Footsteps (1996) 79 exemplaren
Anna All Year Round (1999) 67 exemplaren
Where I Belong (2014) 62 exemplaren
Following the Mystery Man (1988) 62 exemplaren
The Sara Summer (1782) 57 exemplaren
Anna on the Farm (2001) 52 exemplaren
A Haunting Collection (1986) 37 exemplaren
The Thirteenth Cat (2021) 35 exemplaren
What We Saw: A Thriller (2022) 26 exemplaren
Took Graphic Novel: A Ghost Story (2022) 21 exemplaren
Janey and the Famous Author (2005) 20 exemplaren
A ghostly collection (2021) 4 exemplaren
A Ghostly Gathering (2018) 2 exemplaren

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Geboortedatum
1937-12-09
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
USA
Woonplaatsen
College Park, Maryland, USA
Columbia, Maryland, USA
Beroepen
librarian

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Ok listen, from the perspective of an almost forty year old, this book is not superb literature. The parents are funky and way out of touch, Heather is a super brat, Molly and Michael are the only ones remotely with it, and everything wraps up hunky-dory in 90 minutes worth of speed reading. BUT...of all the thousands of books I read between three years old and my senior year of high school, this is one that made a huge impression on me. I can't count the number of times I read it and it still freaks me right out. This book helped me win Battle of the Books at the city level in the 5th grade. I've gotta give it 5 stars--for nostalgia, for fifth grade, for West Park Elementary School in Hermiston, Oregon, and for poor, long-suffering heroine Molly.… (meer)
 
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classyhomemaker | 71 andere besprekingen | Dec 11, 2023 |
Amazing writing, but the plot progresses horribly. Bland characters. Melodramatic. Unrealistic.
 
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Blue5498475 | 5 andere besprekingen | Nov 24, 2023 |
Every time a Mary Downing Hahn book crosses my path, I wish I had read it when I was little. So I took this one home and read it last night. Enjoyed it quite a bit, actually! I had a few quibbles with the grammar, but I will recommend this book to youngsters at my store. It is spooky but not really "scarey."
 
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Kim.Sasso | 31 andere besprekingen | Aug 27, 2023 |
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Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review!

I expected this to be a calm and only slightly spooky horror tale. Imagine my surprise when elements of the story were WAY darker than I expected them to be! I've never read anything by Mary Downing Hahn before, and honestly, this novel makes me want to look into her other works. Or see more graphic novel adaptions of her works! The beginning of the novel feels very stereotypical, a common "We're spending the summer with Grandma and have an adventure" type of story. But in the middle, it changes into something with genuinely good suspense and a mystery that keeps you hooked. While yes, this is intended for middle school age readers, it is still very much a horror story and doesn't shy away from that fact. Though I will say, even as an adult reader, my jaw dropped at how gruesome some of the plot elements are. I'm not going to say what those exact elements are, because I don't want to spoil it, but if I read this while I was in middle school, I think I would have lost my marbles just a wee bit. The ending was bittersweet and so well done. All of the plot threads are tied up neatly in a bow, and everyone gets what they deserve. The art style is excellent! They really made you feel just how terrifying some of the ghosts are, through the art alone. I will admit, the main reason I even choose this graphic novel to read is because I loved the art on the cover. If there are more adaptions of Hahn's ghost series, I really hope they have this team illustrate those as well!… (meer)
 
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50
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Leden
15,303
Populariteit
#1,486
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3.9
Besprekingen
626
ISBNs
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