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CRRL Kids: Mary Downing Hahn

Mary Downing Hahn has written many excellent stories of suspense. Check out the top picks below.

Central Rappahannock Regional Library

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  • While spending the summer at their grandmother's Vermont inn, two prankster siblings awaken young ghosts from the inn's distant past who refuse to "rest in peace."
    Paperback, 2009New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
  • When thirteen-year-old Logan and his family move into a run-down old house in rural Virginia, he discovers that a woman was murdered there and becomes involved with his neighbor Arthur in a dangerous investigation to try to uncover the killer.
    Book, 2009Boston : Clarion Books, 2009. — FICTION Hah
  • When thirteen-year-old Ali spends the summer with her aunt and cousin at the family's vacation home, she stumbles upon a secret that her mother and aunt have been hiding for over thirty years.
    Book, 2007New York : Clarion Books, [2007], ©2007. — FICTION Hah
  • After Ashley and Kristi find an antique doll buried in old Miss Cooper's garden, they discover that they can enter a ghostly turn-of-the-nineteenth-century world by going through a hole in the hedge.
    Paperback, 2007New York : Clarion, 2007.
  • In the nineteenth century, ten-year-old Florence Crutchfield leaves a London orphanage to live with her great-uncle, great-aunt, and sickly cousin James, but she soon realizes the home has another resident, who means to do her and James harm.
    Book, 2010Boston [Mass.] : Clarion Books, [2010], ©2010. — FICTION Hah
  • Tired of the rules that have bound them ever since "the bad thing happened," twelve-year-old Diana ignores her brother's warnings and befriends the daughter of the new caretaker, setting in motion events that lead to the release of the spirit of an…
    Book, 2004New York : Clarion Books, [2004], ©2004. — FICTION Hah
  • When he goes to spend the summer with his great-aunt in the family's old house, twelve-year-old Drew is drawn eighty years into the past to trade places with his great-great-uncle who is dying of diptheria.
    Book, 1994New York : Clarion Books, [1994], ♭1994. — FICTION Hah
  • A witch called Old Auntie is lurking near Dan's family's new home. He doesn't believe in her at first but is forced to accept that she is real and take action when his little sister, Erica, is 'took' to become Auntie's slave for the next fifty years.
    Book, 2015Boston ; New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. — FICTION Hah
  • Twelve-year-old Molly and her younger brother, Michael, have never liked their stepsister, Heather. Ever since their parents got married, she's made Molly and Michael's life miserable. Now their parents have moved them all to the country to live in…
    Paperback, 2008New York : Clarion Books, 2008.