All the Lovely Bad Ones

Ages 9-12; grades 3-7

Master storyteller Mary Downing Hahn tells the eerie tale of a mischievous brother and sister who pretend their grandmother’s Vermont inn is haunted and awaken the real spirits who inhabit the place.

Travis and his sister, Corey, can’t resist a good trick. When they learn that their grandmother’s quiet Vermont inn, where they’re spending the summer, has a history of ghost sightings, they decide to do a little “haunting” of their own. Before long, their supernatural pranks have tourists flocking to the inn, and business booms.

But Travis and Corey soon find out that they aren’t the only ghosts at Fox Hill Inn. Their thoughtless games have awakened something dangerous, something that should have stayed asleep. Can these siblings lay to rest the ghosts they’ve stirred?