Wait Till Helen Comes

Books | Juvenile Fiction / Horror

4.3

(2.0K)

Mary Downing Hahn

Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their seven-year-old 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 a house that used to be a church, with a cemetery in the backyard. If that's not bad enough, Heather starts talking to a ghost named Helen and warning Molly and Michael that Helen is coming for them. Molly feels certain Heather is in some kind of danger, but every time she tries to help, Heather twists things around to get her into trouble. It seems as if things can't get any worse.But they do—when Helen comes.

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Author

Mary Downing Hahn

Pages

208

Publisher

HarperCollins

Published Date

2008-04-21

ISBN

0547346034 9780547346038

Ratings

Google: 4.5

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"beautiful and lyrical, like 'the haunting of hill house' but for kids. i really loved it. also the parents are horrible at being parents and i love that the author understands it, even if the kids love their parents too much to grasp that fact with much nuance. the neglect, denial, and disproportionate responsibility these adults place on their kids is incredible, yet all too real."

Marsh

"Love this book as a child. A total mistery that will keep you entertained."

Norma Blanco

"This was by far such a good book; if you like ghost stories, this one is one of my favorites! I recommend this if you are getting into ghost stories👻 "

Rose

"I wasn’t expecting much because it’s a scholastic horror novel 💀 but this one was actually pretty good!"

Tumi

"SO good and my absolute favorite book as a kid, but everyone else I knew that read it were terrified, so maybe read it yourself before you hand it over to your 5th grader lol"

M W

Morgan Wittmer

"A childhood favorite that helped kindle a love of horror! Themes of accepting loss and grief "