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Wait Till Helen Comes

By: Mary Downing Hahn
Narrated by: Ellen Grafton
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Twelve-year-old Molly and her 10-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their younger 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.

©1986 Mary Downing Hahn (P)2008 Brilliance Audio. Produced by special arrangement with Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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"Genuinely scary, complete with dark secrets from the past, unsettled graves, and a very real ghost." ( The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books)

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amazing!

I loved this book! it was very thrilling and scary! would reccomend to horror fans everywhere!

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Awesome!

This book is a certified thriller that will surely leave you wanting more. Great message of acceptance and learning to be a family. Great book overall!

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Childhood Favorite

This book gave me chills when I was in the 5th grade 30 years ago! Listening to it now, as an adult, gave me the same excited chills! So wonderful to reconnect with a long lost childhood memory.

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One of my favorite story’s for sure

Great story great story great story great story ong great story fuck great story great story amazing interesting me

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Intriguing

The story good and kept me interested however the person telling the story needed to clear up her voice. At times it sound like she had something in her mouth

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Flashback!

I enjoyed flashing back to my youth. When I was young, I was terrified of this book and had nightmares. But I loved it then and I enjoyed it now as an adult. I doubt I'll listen to it again, but I'm glad I bought it and listened to it. The narrator did a great job, even though it did take me a bit to get used to her voice.

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A must Spooky read

Wow this was a great story. I was genuinely spooked. I saw the cover for this book at the elementary school I worked at and was curious but the book was already checked out to a student so checked it out here and listened to in one complete afternoon. I love how it is all tied together and how the ghost girl and the little girl have a similar past and how they have to break away from their sadness and fear to be free and solve the mystery of a 100 year old house fire. Bravo 👏 a must spooky read 👻

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Scary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was just so scared I all most cried!!⛓🎀 Helen is scary so scared but it's really good


















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Love It!

This was one of my favorite books when I was in elementary school! I remember rereading it, so that I could feel the eerie suspense again and again. Now I am a teacher, and shared the book with my fifth and sixth grade students. They absolutely loved it! Even my male students, who are usually hard to motivate when it comes to reading, were hanging on each word!

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Loved it!

Loved the story and the depth of the characters, as well as the readers voice. Some audio books are excruciatingly hard to listen to because they sound like a robot is speaking, but this audiobook was refreshingly vibrant and full of colorful language and intonations. I I really, really enjoyed it!

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