Two children face the terrors of a house that wants them dead
Can Jason and Sally survive the evil spirits in the house on Cherry
Street until their parents return? Jason looks for clues to the house's
mysterious history--especially the "accidental" fall that killed Bobby,
the ghost who still fears his terrifying nanny and whose body was never
found. Maybe if Jason and his sister can right the wrongs of the past,
the house will no longer be haunted. But that means they'll have to go
back inside . . .
The Final Nightmare is the concluding book of the chilling House on
Cherry Street trilogy from prolific wife-and-husband coauthors Lynn
Harnett and Rodman Philbrick, the Newbery Honor Award-winning author of
Freak the Mighty.
Rodman Philbrick grew up on the coast of New Hampshire and has been
writing since the age of sixteen. For a number of years he published
mystery and suspense fiction for adults. Brothers & Sinners won the
Shamus Award in 1994, and two of his other detective novels were
nominees. In 1993 his debut young adult novel, Freak the Mighty, won
numerous honors, and in 1998 was made into the feature film The
Mighty, starring Sharon Stone and James Gandolfini. Freak the Mighty
has become a standard reading selection in thousands of classrooms
worldwide, and there are more than three million copies in print. In
2010 Philbrick won a Newbery Honor for The Mostly True Adventures of
Homer P. Figg.
Lynn Harnett, who was married to Rodman Philbrick, passed away in 2012.
She was a talented journalist, editor, and book reviewer, and she had a
real knack for concocting scary stories that make the reader want to
laugh, shriek with fear, and then turn the page to find out what happens
next.
