Lois Duncan
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 240 pages Rating: 3.76 | 2768 Users | 209 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Gallows Hill (Laurel-Leaf Books) |
| ISBN: | 0440227259 (ISBN13: 9780440227250) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Missouri(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Tennessee Young Readers Award |
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"In that instant of dislocation, as she fought to maintain her equilibrium and keep from tumbling headfirst into the pit of darkness, a voice seemed to shout directly into her right ear"."Guilty as charged" it bellowed. "Away to Gallows Hill".
Gallows Hill by Lois Duncan
This is sure different then most of Duncan's books. This is a seriously creepy little read that combines both historical and contemporary fiction.
Sara has just settled in to a sleepy town in Missouri with her family. It doesn't take her long to discover the town isn't quite what she thought it was.
It is a very conservative very close knit town and Sarah is regarded with suspicion that quickly turns to hostility and then to paranoia and outright hysteria.
This book is intersperced with the past and the Salem Witch Trials. Although this story is fiction, what happened in Salem is not and Duncan really does well in switching from past to present. I enjoyed this story. It isn't in the same league as a "Daughters of Eve" but it is well written and compelling..as well as genuinely creepy.
Define Appertaining To Books Gallows Hill
| Title | : | Gallows Hill |
| Author | : | Lois Duncan |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 240 pages |
| Published | : | September 8th 1998 by Laurel Leaf (first published April 7th 1997) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Horror. Fiction. Mystery. Fantasy. Paranormal |
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Ratings: 3.76 From 2768 Users | 209 ReviewsDiscuss Appertaining To Books Gallows Hill
"In that instant of dislocation, as she fought to maintain her equilibrium and keep from tumbling headfirst into the pit of darkness, a voice seemed to shout directly into her right ear"."Guilty as charged" it bellowed. "Away to Gallows Hill".Gallows Hill by Lois Duncan This is sure different then most of Duncan's books. This is a seriously creepy little read that combines both historical and contemporary fiction.Sara has just settled in to a sleepy town in Missouri with her family. It doesn'tMy biggest gripe with the book is the editing, or lack thereof. It was absolutely atrocious. It was riddled with mistakes; missing punctuation, incorrect punctuation, the wrong words like "sheik" when it should have been "Sheila" or "fell" rather than "fall". But my personal favourite actually included in the finished article was this doozy of a sentence, "She sap that you and she arc so hostile toward each other that the last dung she would ever want to do would be to get involved in any sort
This is one of the Lois Duncan books that I somehow missed and believe me, I am kicking myself for this. This is one of her most fun books and I was also completely tense the whole time reading it. (It doesn't help that the creepy town that Sarah and her mom moved to is basically one of those places where you know everyone knows something that you don't, and where any sort of mistake could have dire consequences.)While reading it, I was expecting Sarah to be ostracized (the town and school are
This story starts with an unusual paperweight that an old woman bought at a shop. She looked into it and when she died she had all of her affairs in order. Now it falls into the hands of her granddaughter, Sarah. Sarah saw a reflection of a yellow dress in her mothers mirror before she bought it. She saw Charlie fall down the stairs before it happend. Is Sarah a witch? Or is she just losing her mind?This book compliments the extreme suspense and style that Lois Duncan posseses. The story is
This was an interesting read about karma, reincarnation, and psychic connections. I didnt take it too seriously, just as entertainment (especially since the facts werent always correct, like Christianity supporting/believing in karma as Charlie saidnope). At least twice, the book suddenly changed points of view in the middle of the chapter from Sarah to Kyra, which threw me off a little. I liked the character of Charlie, and I really sympathized with Sarah when no one would believe her. I
I love Lois Duncan (R.I.P.) Growing up, her YA suspense novels were always my favorite even though my peers were reading Christopher Pike and R.L. Stine (both too scary for me.) Written in 1997, this is a fictional story of a teenage girl who is the victim of gaslighting. It was over-the-top (most Lois Duncan books are) but also creepy as hell.
Great book, especially if you are into the Salem Witch Trials. Sarah and her mom move from Ventura, California to Pine Crest, a small town on the East Coast. But from the moment Sarah gets there something seems off. She makes only one true friend in the town: Charlie. After Sarah does some fortune-telling at the school carnival, a school kid named Eric asks her to do it on the down-low for money. But Sarah begins to see real things in the paperweight- things that her peers in Pine Crest do not
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