A vacation house has a terrifying past--one that only the children
know about
Jason, his little sister, Sally, and his parents plan to spend the
summer in the perfect seaside vacation home. But as soon as Jason steps
onto the porch, icy air grips him, and he feels the stare of an
invisible being. Although he can't explain it, he knows that in this
house, children are not welcome.
Jason soon meets Steve, a friendly kid who teases him about the
so-called haunted house and the witch who used to live there. Jason
tries to ignore him, but he's pretty sure there's truth to the spooky
tale. Especially when he meets the pale figure of a child in the house .
. .
The Haunting is the first 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.
