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Ghost Stories

Behind the Attic Wall

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  • 1983 first published
  • 315 pages
  • ★ 4.2 (8 ratings)
  • 9 editions
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Behind the Attic Wall is a 1983 ghost story novel by Sylvia Cassedy. The story is set in Adelphi Hills. It features Maggie, Uncle Morris and Lillian. Readers will find themes of china dolls, foster homes, boarding schools and family life.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.2 out of 5 from 8 ratings, and 63 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 9 editions.

At about 315 pages, most readers finish it in 5–6 hours.

About Behind the Attic Wall

Behind the Attic Wall is a children's novel by Sylvia Cassedy, first published in 1983. At twelve, Maggie had been thrown out of more boarding schools than she cared to remember. "Impossible to handle," they said — nasty, mean, disobedient, rebellious, thieving — anything they could say to explain why she must be removed from the school. Maggie was thin and pale, with shabby clothes and stringy hair, when she arrived at her new home. "It was a mistake to bring her here," said Maggie's great-aunts, whose huge stone house looked like another boarding school — or a prison. But they took her in anyway. After all, aside from Uncle Morris, they were Maggie's only living relatives. But from behind the closet door in the great and gloomy house, Maggie hears the faint whisperings, the beckoning voices. And in the forbidding house of her ancestors, Maggie finds magic...the kind that lets her, for the first time, love and be loved.
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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

  • Adelphi Hills

Characters

  • Maggie
  • Uncle Morris
  • Lillian
  • Harriet

Subjects

  • China dolls
  • Foster homes
  • Boarding schools
  • Family life
  • Ghosts
  • Orphans
  • Foster children
  • Dolls
  • Ghost stories
  • Families
  • Juvenile audience
  • Children's fiction
  • Houses
  • Magic
  • Fantasy fiction
  • Girls

Publisher

Quick answers

Who wrote Behind the Attic Wall?

Behind the Attic Wall was written by Sylvia Cassedy and first published in 1983.

What genre is Behind the Attic Wall?

It is usually shelved as Ghost Stories.

How long is Behind the Attic Wall?

The median edition has 315 pages, about 5–6 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Behind the Attic Wall?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Graveyard Book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and The Dollhouse Murders.

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