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The House of Dies Drear

The House of Dies Drear

by Virginia Hamilton

  • LITERATURE
  • 1984
  • PAPER
  • 279 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

The late children's author Virginia Hamilton's best-known novel opens when a modern family moves into an old house in Ohio that is a former station of the Underground Railroad. The boy of the house is soon learning all about slavery, the Civil War and (could it be?) ghosts. Ages 9-12.  (USS258, $6.99)


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