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Alice's world is falling apart. Her parents are getting a divorce, and they've cancelled their yearly cottage trip — the one thing that gets Alice through the school year. Instead, Alice and her mom are heading to some small town where Alice's mom will be a live-in nurse to a rich elderly lady.
The house is huge, imposing and spooky, and everything inside is meticulously kept and perfect — not a fun place to spend the summer. Things start to get weird when Alice finds a dollhouse in the attic that's an exact replica of the house she's living in. Then she wakes up to find a girl asleep next to her in her bed — a girl who looks a lot like one of the dolls from the dollhouse . . .
When the dollhouse starts to change when Alice isn't looking, she knows she has to solve the mystery. Who are the girls in the dollhouse? What happened to them? And what is their connection to the mean and mysterious woman who owns the house?
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Release date
August 31, 2021 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780735269071
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780735269071
- File size: 2021 KB
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- ATOS Level: 4.4
- Lexile® Measure: 640
- Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
- Text Difficulty: 2-3
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Reviews
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July 15, 2021
It's 1997, and 12-year-old Alice's regular life is in turmoil; a move to the countryside leads to supernatural adventure. Alice has an overactive, vivid imagination--at least, according to her mother. But is what she sees always imaginary? After telling her emotionally absent, workaholic husband that she's leaving him, Alice's mother takes her daughter to Blackwood House, where she has a live-in nursing job caring for a wealthy old woman while she recovers from a fall. Alice is befriended by teenage Lily, the housekeeper's daughter, who informs her that her bedroom is haunted. As Lily and Alice explore the house, they find a dollhouse in a locked room that becomes real in Alice's dreams. Who are Fizz and Bubble--the sisters who also appear in her dreams--and what is her purpose in their lives? In her everyday world, Alice hopes her parents will reunite, worries about her mother's flirtation with the local doctor, and tries to stay out of the way of her mother's cranky patient. This is a twisty tale that goes in many different directions but never loses the main thread. The author carefully lays out clues for readers who like to solve mysteries themselves. Both Lily and Bubble are developmentally delayed; they are described respectfully and are fleshed-out characters. The cast members default to White. A time-traveling mystery that will keep readers involved and guessing up to the very end. (Paranormal mystery. 9-13)COPYRIGHT(2021) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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