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Mary Downing Hahn’s eerie middle grade novel Wait Till Helen Comes (1986) is a ghost story that explores themes of family, friendship, and the emotional toll of death and guilt. Wait Till Helen Comes received a starred review from Booklist and was awarded the Texas Bluebonnet Award in 1989.
Plot. Twelve-year-old Molly and her brother Michael resent their new seven-year-old stepsister Heather. Heather's mother died in a house fire when Heather was three, leaving her clingy and possessive of her father Dave and jealous of the attention he gives to his new wife Jean and her children.
Jan 1, 1986 · Heather has found a new friend, out in the graveyard behind our home—a girl named Helen who died with her family in a mysterious fire over a hundred years ago. Now her ghost returns to lure children into the pond ... to drown! I don't want to believe in ghosts, but I've followed Heather into the graveyard and watch her talk to Helen.
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Chapter 1 Summary. Twelve-year-old Molly and her 10-year-old brother, Michael, are dismayed when their mom announces that they are leaving Baltimore and moving into a renovated church in rural Holwell, Maryland.
"Wait Till Helen Comes" is a captivating young adult novel written by Mary Downing Hahn. This spooky and suspenseful tale follows the experiences of a blended family as they move into a converted church and encounter the malevolent ghost of a young girl named Helen.
Feb 20, 2021 · With Maria Bello, Sophie Nélisse, Callum Keith Rennie, Isabelle Nélisse. When a reconstructed family moves to a converted church in the country, 14-year-old Molly, must save her new troubled step-sister from a dangerous relationship with the desperate ghost of a young girl.
Apr 21, 2008 · Ghost story master Mary Downing Hahn spins a suspenseful yarn about two children who dislike their malicious younger stepsister, Heather—and tensions that escalate when Heather starts talking to a ghost named Helen.
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