Girl in the Locked Room, The
A Ghost Story

Mary Downing Hahn tells a great ghost story! Her stories are written for a middle-grade audience, but even at 50-years old, I love her ghostly tales! Jules and her parents move around a lot. Her dad restores historic old houses and buildings. So they live in one place only long enough for him to fini......more

Jules has never stayed in one place for more than a year because of her dad, who restores historical buildings across the country. She yearns for a permanent home and friends she can grow up with. But when she and her family arrive in Hillsborough, she starts seeing scenes of life from hundreds of y......more

Author Mary Downing Hahn writes ghostly children’s books that will delight adults as well, and her latest, The Girl in the Locked Room proves no exception. I couldn’t put it down, if you’ll pardon the cliché! Jules Aldridge has moved — yet again — this time to Hillsborough, Virginia; her father Ron o......more

With the season of Halloween upon us, it is always interesting to find just the right kind of books available to read. Jules dad renovates old houses. This one seems the most “unusual” of all when it turns out to harbor a ghost on the top floor in a locked room. Why is she there? What secrets does s......more

A very sweet ghost story about time travel, friendship, and helping others. I enjoyed the simple read and the naive characters.......more