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Mary Downing Hahn

Auteur de Wait Till Helen Comes

50+ oeuvres 15,302 utilisateurs 626 critiques 18 Favoris

A propos de l'auteur

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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Crédit image: Mary Downing Hahn. 2009 Baltimore Book Festival. ©2009

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Œuvres de Mary Downing Hahn

Wait Till Helen Comes (1986) 1,999 exemplaires
Deep and Dark and Dangerous (2007) 1,522 exemplaires
All the Lovely Bad Ones (2008) 1,290 exemplaires
Closed for the Season (2009) 1,079 exemplaires
The Old Willis Place (2004) 1,079 exemplaires
Stepping on the Cracks (1991) 897 exemplaires
Took: A Ghost Story (2015) 816 exemplaires
The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall (2010) 763 exemplaires
Surgi du passe (1994) 560 exemplaires
Look for Me by Moonlight (1995) 407 exemplaires
The Dead Man in Indian Creek (1990) 354 exemplaires
One for Sorrow: A Ghost Story (2017) 320 exemplaires
Daphne's Book (1983) 295 exemplaires
Promises to the Dead (2000) 231 exemplaires
Guest: A Changeling Tale (2019) 197 exemplaires
Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls (2012) 192 exemplaires
The Wind Blows Backward (1993) 187 exemplaires
The Gentleman Outlaw and Me - Eli (1996) 181 exemplaires
Witch Catcher (2006) 163 exemplaires
December Stillness (1988) 158 exemplaires
The Time of the Witch (1982) 125 exemplaires
Tallahassee Higgins (1994) 124 exemplaires
The Spanish Kidnapping Disaster (1991) 117 exemplaires
Hear the Wind Blow (2003) 101 exemplaires
As Ever, Gordy (1998) 92 exemplaires
La Saison des méduses (1987) 82 exemplaires
Following My Own Footsteps (1996) 79 exemplaires
Anna All Year Round (1999) 67 exemplaires
Where I Belong (2014) 62 exemplaires
Following the Mystery Man (1988) 62 exemplaires
The Sara Summer (1782) 57 exemplaires
Anna on the Farm (2001) 52 exemplaires
A Haunting Collection (1986) 37 exemplaires
The Thirteenth Cat (2021) 35 exemplaires
What We Saw: A Thriller (2022) 26 exemplaires
Took Graphic Novel: A Ghost Story (2022) 21 exemplaires
Janey and the Famous Author (2005) 20 exemplaires
Mary Downing Hahn's Haunting Tales (2011) 19 exemplaires
A ghostly collection (2021) 4 exemplaires
A Ghostly Gathering (2018) 2 exemplaires

Oeuvres associées

Bruce Coville's Book of Nightmares: Tales to Make You Scream (1995) — Contributeur — 200 exemplaires
Bruce Coville's Book of Ghosts: Tales to Haunt You (1994) — Contributeur — 181 exemplaires
Don't Give Up the Ghost: A Book of Ghost Stories (1993) — Contributeur — 29 exemplaires
Totally Middle School: Tales of Friends, Family, and Fitting In (2018) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires

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Date de naissance
1937-12-09
Sexe
female
Nationalité
USA
Lieux de résidence
College Park, Maryland, USA
Columbia, Maryland, USA
Professions
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.… (plus d'informations)
 
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classyhomemaker | 71 autres critiques | Dec 11, 2023 |
Amazing writing, but the plot progresses horribly. Bland characters. Melodramatic. Unrealistic.
 
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Blue5498475 | 5 autres critiques | 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 autres critiques | 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!… (plus d'informations)
 
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Katharine_Opal | Jul 3, 2023 |

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Œuvres
50
Aussi par
5
Membres
15,302
Popularité
#1,486
Évaluation
3.9
Critiques
626
ISBN
461
Langues
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Favoris
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