The Haunting of Swain's Fancy

by Brenda Seabrooke

Book Overview

Taylor has come to Swain's Fancy to spend the summer with her father and his new wife, Sylvia, and her children, Nicole and Peter. She has to share a room with Nicole, who thinks Taylor is about as welcome as Lyme disease. But the stepsisters' enmity is soon eclipsed by strange goings-on in the house. What makes the bedroom so cold? Who is that person looking out the attic window? Sibling rivalry is pushed aside as Taylor, Nicole, Peter, and neighbor...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 151436879X
• ISBN13: 9781514368794
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8

Customer Reviews

The Haunting of swain's Fancy

this book was a very...um well i dont know its a good book i guess. This story was about a girl going to her fathers house for the summer and finding out that there are ghosts in the house,Who is going to belive her?Who is going to get rid of them?Will she have to do it with her new step siblings Nicole and Peter?Spooky! This book is a cozy spine tingling bed time story!Fun for the whole family.-Becky S.age 12

Initial hostility between the new stepsisters changes

Taylor has come from another state to spend the summer with her father and his new wife and her children - but an empty spooky old house greets her and when the family does show up, it's with less than a display of family warmth. Initial hostility between the new stepsisters changes as both are confronted with a supernatural force which threatens each - building family feelings in the process.

A cool Civil War mystery

This is a cool mystery. I like that the Civil War ghost problem and the modern kids' problem are connected. The ghosts don't just haunt the house for no reason. This book has everything I like in a scary book - an old house, ghosts, mystery, a seance, funny things, kids that are real. The ending is great! Read this book for real goosebumps!