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The House of Dies Drear

The House of Dies Drear - Paperback

by Virginia Hamilton
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Availability:In StockContributor:Virginia HamiltonAudience:Ages 9-12Publish date:2006-01-01Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Aladdin PaperbacksISBN-13:9781416914051ISBN-10:1416914056UPC:9781416914051Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, People & Places, HistoricalBook Topic:United StatesSize:7.90 x 5.24 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.3814Product ID:SCAE7A5QKD
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Aladdin PaperbacksISBN-13:9781416914051ISBN-10:1416914056UPC:9781416914051Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, People & Places, HistoricalBook Topic:United StatesSize:7.90 x 5.24 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.3814Product ID:SCAE7A5QKD
The recipient of nearly every major award and honor in her field, including the 1992 Hans Christian Andersen Award, Virginia Hamilton (1934-2002) was the first African American woman to be awarded the Newbery Medal, for M.C. Higgins, the Great. Renowned as a storyteller, anthologist, and lecturer as well as a novelist, Ms. Hamilton made her home in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks

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