Once Upon a Dark November

by Carol Beach York

Book Overview

A high school freshman with a crush on her English teacher, Katie enjoys her job doing housework in his house until a murder in his family has Katie fearing for her own life. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823407802
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Holiday House
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

A school reveiw

There's a killer on Katie's street and they might be coming after her. Katie Allen lives on Linden Street in the city of Grandville. On Tuesday's and Friday's Katie goes to work in the Herron's house. Mr. Herron is the English teacher, who Katie has a crush on. One day Mrs. Herron told Katie that her cousin Martin was coming to visit. He hadn't been in Grandville for twenty years and now, out of the blue, he decides to come for a visit. They were packing away Halloween costumes and Katie saw a Frankenstein mask with a tear in the chin. After all of that was put away, they went upstairs to get the room ready for her cousin Martin. When they were putting the sheets on the bed, Mrs. Herron forgot that Katie was there and started talking to herself. "No good will come from this visit." She shuttered as if she were afraid, and Katie just knew something bad was going to happen when martin came. The next time Katie came over Martin was there. He sat at the kitchen table with a mustache and big, thick glasses. He didn't look happy in Katie's opinion. He went out with Mrs. Herron a lot and his room was very empty. When Katie was over, Mrs. Herron often asked Martin if he would go see `Auntie' while he was there. Their Auntie was old Mrs. Gorley at the end of the street. She lived alone in a big house. Whenever Mrs. Herron mentioned Auntie, Cousin Martin always said "I'll see her soon enough." One day, Katie and her mom went to Mrs. Gorley's house to see if she wanted an old clock. On their way over they saw Mrs. Herron and Martin coming out. "He finally went to see Auntie," Katie thought to herself. When they went to see Mrs. Gorley she said she didn't know why Mrs. Herron brought him over. The next Tuesday when Katie went to the Herron's house there were cops there. Mrs. Herron told Katie that someone had murdered Mrs. Gorley the day before. Martin had disappeared and they think he killed her. The cops questioned Katie. She told them that she saw him outside of Mrs. Gorley's house the morning of the day she was murdered. She said that she thought it was Mr. Herron at first because of the way he looked from the back. The police told her that she would have to give a testimony in court. Katie just wanted it all to be over. She was scared because they didn't know where Martin was. One night when Katie was walking home from her friend Heather's house, she felt like someone was following her. No one was there but she still felt better after she was home. She went to the kitchen to lock the back door because she was the only one home. As she reached for it the door burst open and a man wearing a frankinstein mask with a tear in the chin walked in. Katie screamed and turned to run. She bumped the table and thanksgiving decorations fell on the floor. He stumbled on them which gave Katie time to run. She didn't know where she was running, just away. When she finally stopped running she found herself three blocks from home. He