Took: A Ghost Story

By Mary Downing Hahn

Book Overview

"Folks say Old Auntie takes a girl and keeps her fifty years--then lets her go and takes another one." Thirteen-year-old Daniel Anderson doesn't believe Brody Mason's crazy stories about the ghost witch who lives up on Brewster's Hill with Bloody Bones, her man-eating razorback hog. He figures Brody's probably just trying to scare him since he's the new kid . . . a "stuck-up snot" from Connecticut. But Daniel's seven-year-old sister Erica has become more and more withdrawn, talking to her lookalike doll. When she disappears into the woods one day, he knows something is terribly wrong. Did the witch strike? Has Erica been "took"?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0544551532
• ISBN13: 9780544551534
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7

Customer Reviews

Great book.!

I was given this book from my nephew who got it at a book fair from school. It looked interesting and was like no im not reading it, its a kid book probably predicitable. But i opened it and read a few pages to my son who is 5 and said it was scary, but my interest kept growing and i didnt put it down. Such a great book very unpredicitable, very interesting, and so addictive. Would recommend to adults.

This book was a huge surprise for me.

Let me start off by saying I'm a 28 year old woman, definitely out of the recommended age group for this book. But I loved it! It kept my interest the whole way. I was looking for an easy, light read after reading a big book. I wasn't expecting it to be so good. Yes, it would be great for older children. But some adults may love it as well.