Publication

1983 - T.Y. Crowell, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

78,750 words, Guess

Page Count

315 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100690043368
  • ISBN-100690043376
  • ISBN-139780690043365
  • ISBN-139780690043372
  • LibraryThing27001
and 5 more
  • Goodreads3563661', '1270648
  • Library of Congress Control Number82045922
  • Better World Books9780690043365
  • Better World Books9780690043372
  • Open LibraryOL3506208M

Classifications

  • DDC[Fic]
  • LCCPZ7.C268515 Be 1983

Description

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.

Description

In the bleak, forbidding house of her great-aunts, neglected twelve-year-old orphan Maggie hears ghostly voices and finds magic that awakens in her the capacity to love and be loved.

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  • Behind the attic wallT.Y. Crowell1983-01-01
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