The House on Hound Hill

Informationen zum Autor Maggie Prince is an award-winning British author of young adult novels. This is her first book published in the United States. Klappentext Something is not right in Emily's new house in the historic London neighborhood of Hound Hill. And something is not quite right with Emily. Encountering hints to her home's haunted past, she begins to experience distressing symptoms: a headache, a fever, extreme thirst, hallucinations, and, then, a doorway to an earlier period of great distress. Readers will be swept away in this riveting and suspenseful tale that vividly reveals the great suffering of the Black Death, a disease that killed almost a quarter of the population of London. Zusammenfassung Something is not right in Emily’s new house in the historic London neighborhood of Hound Hill. And something is not quite right with Emily. Encountering hints to her home’s haunted past, she begins to experience distressing symptoms: a headache, a fever, extreme thirst, hallucinations, and, then, a doorway to an earlier period of great distress. Readers will be swept away in this riveting and suspenseful tale that vividly reveals the great suffering of the Black Death, a disease that killed almost a quarter of the population of London.

Product details

• Authors: Maggie Prince
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.2003
• EAN: 9780618331246
• ISBN: 978-0-618-33124-6
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 191 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Mystery, JUVENILE FICTION: Humorous Stories, JUVENILE FICTION: Mysteries & Detective Stories, JUVENILE FICTION: Readers / Chapter Books, JUVENILE FICTION: Girls & Women, JUVENILE FICTION: Stories in Verse (see also Poetry), JUVENILE FICTION: Historical / Medieval, JUVENILE FICTION: Short Stories, JUVENILE FICTION: Historical / Ancient Civilizations, JUVENILE FICTION: Readers / Intermediate, JUVENILE FICTION: Biographical / Europe, mysteries;mystery