The House of Dies Drear (Dies Drear Chronicle)

Simon Pulse (Oct 01, 1984)

9780020435204

| Paperback

256 pages | 107 x 185 mm | English

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LC Classification PZ7.H1828 .Ho 1984

LC Control No. 84019847

Genre

Mystery
Teen

Subject

African Americans/ Fiction
Children's Stories, American
Detective And Mystery Stories, American
Mystery And Detective Stories

Plot

A family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad in this Edgar Award–winning book from Virginia Hamilton.The house held secrets, Thomas knew, even before he first saw it looming gray and massive on its ledge of rock. It had a century-old legend—two fugitive slaves had been killed by bounty hunters after leaving its passageways, and Dies Drear himself, the abolitionist who had made the house into a station on the Underground Railroad, had been murdered there. The ghosts of the three were said to walk its rooms…

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Value

Purchased	at The Book Nook for $ 0.50

Notes

AR level-4.8
Points-9 pts.