Mary Downing Hahn
Auteur de Wait Till Helen Comes
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
Séries
Œuvres de Mary Downing Hahn
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1937-12-09
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- College Park, Maryland, USA
Columbia, Maryland, USA - Professions
- librarian
Membres
Discussions
YA book, AR book, Fiction, two girls working together to write a story, set in the US à Name that Book (Août 2010)
Critiques
Anna All Year Round par Mary Downing Hahn
I guess I start a dnf shelf now? This book would have been interesting if I was family but as it was it was just a collection of stories of someone I didn’t know. They gave a small glimpse into what life was like, but not like the classic children’s historical fiction such as Little House, Lois Lenski books or Ralph Moody. For that reason it isn’t worth my shelf space as there are simply better books out there.
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)
Amazing writing, but the plot progresses horribly. Bland characters. Melodramatic. Unrealistic.
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."
Listes
Five star books (2)
Gateway Horror (10)
Edgar Award (1)
Elevenses (1)
1800s: America (1)
1980s (1)
Female Author (1)
Bullies (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 50
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 15,429
- Popularité
- #1,472
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 618
- ISBN
- 461
- Langues
- 10
- Favoris
- 18