The Ghosts of Mercy Manor

BETTY REN WRIGHT

ISBN 10: 0590436023 / ISBN 13: 9780590436021

Published by Scholastic December 1994, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ghosts of Mercy Manor
• Publisher: Scholastic December 1994
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0590436023
• ISBN 13: 9780590436021
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Good - Trade
• Seller catalogs:
  • Youth

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Synopsis

Unable to resist the love and acceptance that she receives from her foster family, the Mercys, Gwen becomes terrified when she learns that their house is haunted by the spirits of a sad girl named Rose and two desperate men. Reprint.

From Kirkus Reviews

Again, Wright deftly combines an old-fashioned ghost story with a modern family dilemma. Gwen Maxwell, 12, feels as though the bottom has fallen out of her life--for the second time. Five years ago, after her parents died in a car accident, she came to live with loving Great-aunt Mary in Winfield, Wisconsin. Now Aunt Mary has also died and, except for a much older brother whose concern for her welfare is little more than perfunctory, Gwen is alone again. Enter kindly Dena Mercy and her family, with plenty of room for a foster child at beautiful Mercy Manor. Inconveniently, Gwen's presence at the farm stirs up ghosts of Dena's past, jeopardizing Gwen's tenure with her newfound home. Purely for her own sense of self-esteem, Gwen takes on the lonely task of persuading her foster mother to acknowledge a long-ago family murder. Gwen succeeds; and despite the tumult wrought in the household, we know she'll be welcome to stay. A delightful juxtaposition of golden summer days and clammy haunted nights to warm and chill the reader. (Fiction. 8-12) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.