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Summary: A Spooky Start
Review: A review by Jessie
Lia is a 15-year-old girl who only wants to fit in with all the women in her family. She is the only woman who hasn't yet done anything worth honoring. Her mother and father have a big dream of adopting many children who do not have a home. At the start of this story Lia and her parent do not see eye to eye on this. But through the story she matures and sees how much the lonely children need to be apart of her family. The only thing that is holding them back is Graymoss. Graymoss is a plantation with a beautiful house and many acres. Lia's Great Grandmother left this house to Lia's mother, when she died. There is only one problem with the house. In the daytime the house is wonderful, but after the sun goes down and darkness sneaks up strange, unexplainable things start to happen. The ceiling turns into shrieking, terrifying faces and the walls whisper something. Graymoss has been in the family for a long time. The last person to sleep a whole peaceful night in it was Charlotte Blevins, an ancestor of Lia's family. The only clues Lia has to set the evil inside the house free is Charlotte Blevins's diary and an old copy of Favorite Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, both of these play a large part in unlocking the secrets left behind in Graymoss.This story always kept me at the edge of my seat. I could not put it down once I started reading. I enjoyed all of the characters in the story every much. My favorite was the main character Lia, because she was very believable and made you feel like you were apart of the book. Like the way the author always told her thoughts made me feel like I was right next to her. On example of this is when Lia is in the car with her parents and is thinking about their dream. She was very angry because she thought that the other children would replace her. Another example of the author telling everything that Lia was thinking in her mind was when she was at Graymoss after dark. "Leave this horrible place! a voice in my head kept saying. Get out of here! Run!" The language the author used in this book was very easy to follow. The story was told in the way that every age could enjoy reading it. The author gave great details to enhance the story. An example of this is when Lia and Jonathan are in Graymoss and it turned dark. "The wind pushed against me. The whispers turned to shouts, and invisible fingers pulled through my hair and along my face." The details make you feel like you are right there next to Lia. I thought the length of the story was perfect. The author covered everything. I recommend this book to any one who enjoys suspenseful, spooky stories. I do not recommend this book to any one who gets nightmares easily or does not like thrilling surprises. The Haunting was a great book.
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Summary: Mysterious House
Review: I enjoyed reading the book, "The Haunting" by Joan Lowery Nixon. In "The Haunting" Lia is the main character who's 15 and an only child. In the book her great grandmother dies and in her will she leaves this house for Lia's mother, with Charolette's diary. The house is supposedly haunted and no one's lived in it for the past hundred years. The diary is full of stories from when Charlotte lived there. Lia's parents have big plans for when they move into the house. They are going to adopt a dozen kids and live in Graysmoss. Lia doesn't like the idea of having a dozen kids running around. Lia and her parents go and visit Graymoss, her parents love the house but they have to have it inspected before they move in. Right before they were leaving Lia's mother saw an indention in the bed that wasn't there before. Read to discover what really happends. I thought it was a great book, it was suspensful and exciting to read.
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Summary: Great chiller For a Scary & Rainy Day
Review: I liked this book because it was diffrent,it scares you in such a chilling way that you want to scream!{sometimes}Joan Lowery Nixon {authur}describes the haunted house so well it almost seems real.
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Summary: The Haunting
Review: I liked this interesting story and I would totally reccomend it to anyone. Most of Mrs. Nixons books have some supernatural aspect to them but this is the first I've read where the entire story is centered around ghosts, etc. I thought that this would be another lame story about things that go bump in the night and, if I'm lucky, a white blob of ectoplasm that goes 'boo!"This is actually an involved mystery.
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Summary: Mike Werthmimer
Review: I lo5ved the book a7nd how it had a 8cliff ha7ngi7ng e7ndi7ng. I would re8comme7nd this book to ma7ny people. It was ex8citi7ng a7nd thrilli7ng.
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Summary: too creepy
Review: I read Joan Nixon's "The Haunting" for my English Class. It was an okay book, but way too creepy. She used way too much dark imagery and all the supernatural stuff was just weird. I like mystery stories, but this was just over the top. I also decided tor ead it at night. Not a good idea. I did not sleep very well that night.
I don't want to be to critical, but it was also very boring and hard to follow. I couldn't keep up witha anything going on in the book. especially towards the end. To me that's when it got really complicated. It was also kind of sad at both the beginning and end. It isa sad in the beginning when the great grandmother dies. I won't spoil the ending for anyone who hasn't read the book, but let's just say someone dies and it's very sad.
Overall I did not like the darkness, boringness, or overall creepiness of this book. I would not recomend it.
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Summary: Not my type of book
Review: I really did not like this book. I thought the main character was boring (and kind of annoying). The plot seemed unrealistic. I'm all for scary books about haunted houses, but some of the story just didn't make sense. It was very surreal. On the day they decide to look at the house, suddenly everyone shows up to buy the place... It's just weird. There are lots of plot mix-ups like this. Also, the heroine is fifteen, but the book seems to be written for fourth grade. It was so unchallenging that it got boring. I didn't find the scary parts scary at all (that may be because I've read much scarier stuff though). And the real story didn't start until over I'd finished over 100 pages, more than half the book. Those pages seemed to only be setting up the plot. That's a lot of the book to use as an introduction. I guess it's just not my type of book.
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Summary: The Haunting
Review: I suppose this was an okay book. I had to read it for school. It was relatively short and pretty easy. You don't really have to think about it too much. It was nice to have to read a normal book for school for once! I didn't really LOVE this book, but I also didn't hate it. All in all, it was a fine book, but I really don't understand why this writer is so popular. She just seems average to me. I don't think there is anything extraordinary about her or her books.
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Summary: The Haunting
Review: I think The Haunting is a wonderful book.The book is about a girl named Lia,whose family gets a plantion called,Graysmoss.They get Graysmoss,because Lia's great grandma had passed it down to them when she died.When they went to visit Graysmoss they find out that it's haunted.Lia's mom and dad wanted to fill the house with unadopted kids.Lia trys to get her mom and dad to stay until dark.She wants to do that because she wants to know what's haunting the house.She also doesn't want any little brothers and sisters. When Lia goes to her grandma's house she said she was going to go to a party. Instead,she goes to Graysmoss.Does she find out what's causing the evil?You have to read the book to find out. I think the best part of the book was that you had to guess why the evil was happening.I didn't like the book because it was too short.I think any young adult who likes a scare now and then would enjoy this book.
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Summary: interesting and suspenseful
Review: I thought this book was really good. I espescially liked the way Joan Lowry Nixon based the book on Civil War times. I think this added to the spooky atmosphere of the story. However, I didn't really like how the whole book mostly involves scenes in which people try to warn them away from the house. I think that could be summed up more quickly. In my opinion, the book would have been better if the'd actually moved into the house in the story. But all in all, I liked the story a lot and I'm sure I'll read it over and over again. It's great for mystery lovers who love being scared!
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