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Author: Joan Lowery Nixon

Title: The Haunting

Rating: 4

Reviewer: J.F. Grade: 7

Review:

In reading the book "The Haunting" by Joan Lowery Nixon, I would

recommend this book to my classmates.

The story takes place in a town in Louisiana named Baton Rouge. In

that town there is a house called graymoss. It is haunted and every-

one stays away from it. A girl named Lia who's family has owned it

for generations, will now be moving into the house with her parents.

There were not many choices for Lia. Her choices were to convice her

mother and father to not live in graymoss, or find out what the evil

wants. Her only clues were her great-great-great- grandmothers

diary and an old copy of favorite tales of Edgar Allan Poe.

For protection at graymoss Lia got a bag of griss-griss from a voodo

store. The griss-griss would make the ghose not bother her but not

go away.

When Lia read her great-great-great- grandmothers diary she learned

a lot of important information. She learned that her great-great-great grandmother's name was charlotte and charlotte's grandfathers

name was Mr. Blevins, and the house keepers name was Mr. Slade. She

also found out they lived in graymoss. Mr. Slade was not a very nice

man. He said to Charlotte and her grandfather that "It won't be long

now until the federals march in". He said "those fancy candlesticks

and the rest of your silverware will make pretty souviners, that is

if they are still her when the federals arrive".

When Charlotte was outside one time, her grandfather ran up to her and

said "Mr. Slade attacked me and ran off with our jewerly and silver-

ware. All of a sudden they saw houses being burnt down and it was

the federals. Then grandpa reached for his granddaugher and was shot.

Before he died he gave her his favorite Edgar Allan Poe and siad it

would be the answer to all of the questions. After her grandfather

died, graymoss became haunted.

Lia knew then she had to take the evil out of graymoss if her parents

wanted to live there. So, one night at graymoss she found a brick

wall where some of the bricks were out of place, she busted the wall

and found the body of Mogan Slade behind it. Charlotte's grandfather

thought he was protecting her by killing Mr. Slade. But he really

was entraping Slade's evil inside graymoss. When Lia found his body

she also freed his spirit, and graymoss was never haunted again.

I thought Joan Lowery Nixon had a great style of writing and I liked

the way she kept the book very interesting. You couldn't wait to

turn to the next page. I would read another books of her's in the

near future.

9/2/04