The Girl in the Locked Room
by Mary Downing Hahn
Taste attributes: familyhorrormysteryfantasyfresh & originalimaginarylinearenclosedemotive & stirringsolving the riddle/not as it seemsrescue/escape/jeopardycomplex relationship
Boxlist takeA larger-than-life family novel, fresh rather than familiar. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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4.3 / 5
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About This Book
Told in two voices, Jules, whose father is restoring an abandoned house, and a girl who lived there a century before begin to communicate and slowly, the girl's tragic story is revealed.--
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- Author
- Mary Downing Hahn
- Published
- 2015
- Pages
- 205
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- Open Library
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