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c2008., Pre-adolescent, Annick Press Call No: 920 COT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Looks at the childhoods of six celebrated authors, including Madeleine L'Engle, E. B. White, L. M. Montgomery, Philip Pullman, Christopher Paul Curtis, and C. S. Lewis, and discusses how their youthful experiences influenced their writing.
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[2021]., Pre-adolescent, Tundra Call No: SUPERNATURAL F COT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Alice's world is falling apart. Her parents are getting a divorce, and they've cancelled their yearly cottage trip--the one thing that gets Alice through the school year. Instead, Alice and her mom are heading to some small town where Alice's mom will be a live-in nurse to a rich elderly lady. The house is huge, imposing and spooky, and everything inside is meticulously kept and perfect--not a fun place to spend the summer. Things start to get weird when Alice finds a dollhouse in the attic that's an exact replica of the house she's living in. Then she wakes up to find a girl asleep next to her in her bed--a girl who looks a lot like one of the dolls from the dollhouse... When the dollhouse starts to change when Alice isn't looking, she knows she has to solve the mystery. Who are the girls in the dollhouse? What happened to them? And what is their connection to the mean and mysterious woman who owns the house?"--From the publisher's web site.
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[2021]., Juvenile, Tundra Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Alice's summer plans are ruined when her parents announce they are getting a divorce and instead of a fun-filled summer with her friends, she's moving to a small town with her mother, who has been hired as a live-in nurse for an elderly lady. The old woman, Mrs. Bishop, lives in an imposing, old house where Alice discovers a dollhouse in the attic that is an exact replica of the house. But things take an even stranger turn when Alice awakens to find a girl that looks exactly like one of the dolls asleep next to her in her bed. She soon has to try and uncover the truth about the mysterious house and what it has to do with Mrs. Bishop.
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[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Tundra Call No: SUPERNATURAL F COT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: For the first time, Ruth is heading to Newfoundland instead of spending the summer traveling with her dad. When she arrives, she finds Newfoundland is different from her life in Toronto--people there are more friendly, but also superstitious. Ruth's cousin Ruby is also staying for the summer, and the two discover they have a lot in common. But while Ruby believes in spirits and fairies, Ruth believes in science and cold, hard facts. When they find ominous information on some tombstones in the local cemetery, Ruth and Ruby start investigating their family's past. The answers lie somewhere along the Ghost Road . . . if they can only find it.
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[2014], Pre-adolescent, Tundra Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Neighbors Polly, who wants to see a ghost, and Rose, who can't stop seeing ghosts, discover that their attic hideaways share a wall and soon they become good friends, and when the girls find a tombstone with Rose's name on it and encounter an angry spirit in her house, they become determined to solve the mystery.
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[2014]., Pre-adolescent, Tundra Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Neighbors Polly, who wants to see a ghost, and Rose, who can't stop seeing ghosts, discover that their attic hideaways share a wall and soon they become good friends, and when the girls find a tombstone with Rose's name on it and encounter an angry spirit in her house, they become determined to solve the mystery.
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2017., Juvenile, Tundra Books Call No: FIC COTTER Edition: Paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Polly feels lonely amidst her large, noisy family. Rose is lonely, but her family is the exact opposite. The two girls become friends when they discover their attic hideaways share a wall. Polly notices something immediately--Rose might be a ghost.
