![]() ![]() What do you mean, Nora? Just look at the woods and fields, the river, the hills. From what your aunt said, I thought-ĭad glanced at me. Oh, Ward, Mom whispered to my father, it’s in terrible shape. From a distance, it looked empty, deserted, maybe even haunted. Dad slowed the car and pointed to a big brick house standing on a hill above the highway. He wants to follow him-to a place where he will meet the spirits of long dead ancestors.a place from which Andrew might never return. ![]() ![]() Then, in the middle of the night, Andrew awakens to find a boy standing in his room.a boy who is Andrew's double, except he looks as if he's come from the grave. From the back cover: Aunt Blythe's house gives Andrew the creeps-full of dark rooms, creaky noises, and the sound of a woman sobbing somewhere in the shadows. This is one of Hahn's best supernatural tales-possibly her very best. But this issue aside, Time for Andrew is a great favorite of mine, an absorbing, fascinating story of two boys from different times who become the strangest of friends and who help one another through time and space. Readers who enjoy both ghost and timeslip genres understand that the definition of each often can and does include the other. It's unclear to me why the author chooses to make a case for ghosts, however. I don't want to spoil the story for anyone, so I won't say why. First of all, I am going to call this story a timeslip or time travel story rather than the stated "ghost story" in the title. ![]()
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