The Haunting

by Joan Lowery Nixon

Book Overview

When her mother inherits an old plantation house in the Louisiana countryside, 15-year-old Lia seeks to rid it of the evil spirit that haunts it This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 038532247X
• ISBN13: 9780385322478
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Petrified Plantation

Joan Lowery Nixon is a striking writer. I would read this book over and over again. She shows an evil mood, when she describes the mysterious evil that haunts the old plantation house. Nixon's style is mysterious murders, ghosts, and other things that go bump in the night. I would recommend this book to people who love a good spine-chilling, horrifying, spooky tale. The exposition could use a little work but otherwise the book is breath-taking.This book gave me the jitters, but a chill that fills my mind with questions. What if ghost do exist? What if they're watching you right now? What if they're standing right behind you? The main character in the story is Lia Langley who looks back on her families' past and feels she doesn't fit in. All the women in her family have been exceptionally brave except for her. Lia loves to read and doesn't solcialize well with others. Lia is shy and very unsure of herself. After the death of Lia's great-grandmother, Sarah, an old plantation house named Graymoss is left in Lia's mother's hands. Lia's parents plan to move there and raise unadoptable children. According to a mysterious lady that lives in the wood behind Graymoss, Lia will have to set free the evil that haunts Graymoss after dusk for the house to be "liveable." Will Lia save Graymoss? Will the evil be vanquished? Who is the inscrutable evil that haunts Graymoss? The plot is very easy to follow. It's clear that Lia's goal us to get rid of the the ghost that haunt Graymoss. The plot revolves around the stories of Graymoss and the mystifying things that happen after dark. In summary, Joan Lowery Nixon knows how to write a good book from expostion to the closing sentence. If I had to rate this book from 1 to 10, without a doubt I would this book a 10.

Excellent and Scary Book

The Haunting by Joan lowery Nixon is an awesome book. Anyone who enjoys Edger Allen Poe stories is sure to like this story. A young girl named Anne is about to move into the Graymoss mansion when she discovers it's terrifing secret. She reads the diary of a girl who lived at Graymoss during the Civil War and about the ghosts in the house. A good book for teens and adults The Haunting provides chills for all who read it.

Great Ghost Thriller.

THE HAUNTING is an awesome book. I usually like Joan Lowery Nixon's work, anyway...so of course I'd think this is a great book. This book is about a modern-day teenager named Lia who doesn't believe she is very brave and courageous like most of the women in her family have been. She, of course, loves to read and doesn't have a lot of friends. After Lia's great-grandmother dies, her parents are given the huge house on a plantation her great-grandmother owned. Lia's parents decide to move there and adopt lots of orphan children, who will become Lia's brothers and sisters. Lia doesn't want to have any brothers and sisters because she likes being the only child, and so she doesn't want to move to the plantation. Anyway, while Lia's great-grandmother was dying in the hospital, Lia came over to visit her great-grandmother. Her great-grandmother thought Lia was Lia's mother, and told her to read a diary by a girl named Charlotte who's grandfather owned the plantation house during the Civil War, in the 1800s and why she thinks the house is haunted. When Lia tells her mother this, her mother doesn't believe the house is haunted and wants to live in it anyway (even Lia's grandmother believes the house is haunted). So to prove the house is haunted, Lia finds Charlotte's diary and reads it and now has to discover a way to destroy the evil in the house before it destroys her! A great thriller for a late-night reading. Go out and try this book.

A great thriller!!!

This book is about a girl, Lia Starling. When her great-grandmother dies her mother inheirits this old plantation called, Graymaoss. This plantation survived the Civil War and is waiting for some one. When Lia's parents want to move into the house and fill it with "unadoptabe" kids Lia has to figure out who the house is waiting for using the original owner, Charolette Blevins, diary and an old copy of Favorite Tales of Edgar Allen Poe. Can she solve this mystery? You'll have to read it to find out. This book sent chills down my spine and its a great book to read over and over again. The auther describes everything so well that it feels like you're excperiencing the terror of Graymoss!

Petrifying suspense...Excellent choice for young adults

Very scary...Once you pick it up you won't want to put it down...Good enough to read more than 1 time...Joan is a great author and shows great creativity with this book...I give it 5 stars all the way..