Annie’s classmates don’t like Elsie: she’s a tattletale, a liar, and a thief. Before Annie has a chance to meet the other girls in her class, clingy Elsie Schneider claims Annie as her best friend.
Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. Official Summary (Add on Goodreads): Annie Browne is new at school in September 1918. This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Closed for the Season (2010).Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction for Stepping on the Cracks (1992).The Puppet's Payback: And Other Chilling Tales (2020).Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Don't Give Up the Ghost (1993, contributor) One for Sorrow: A Ghost Story - Ebook written by Mary Downing Hahn.Hahn’s story is characteristically steeped in eerie atmosphere, and the novel’s blend of historical drama, the supernatural, and the intricacies of adolescent friendship is a gripping combination.
If Elsie was a pest when she was alive, it’s nothing compared to her ghostly antics, which take a toll on Annie, who is sent to a convalescent home. When Elsie dies suddenly of the Spanish Flu that’s sweeping the city, Annie is both guilty and relieved-until Elsie returns as a ghost. Annie, whose struggles with peer pressure throughout the novel are admirably complex, soon abandons Elsie for another group of friends, even joining in the teasing and name calling (Elsie’s father is German, which doesn’t help).
Soon Annie makes other friends and finds herself joining them in teasing and tormenting Elsie. She meets Elsie Schneider on her first day, who proclaims the pair will be best friends, but no one at Pearce likes Elsie, labeling her a tattletale and liar. Against the ominous backdrop of the influenza epidemic of 1918, Annie, a new girl at school, is claimed as best friend by Elsie, a classmate who is a tattletale, a liar, and a thief. In 1918, WWI rages but Annie Browne is most concerned about fitting into her new school outside Baltimore, the Pearce Academy for Girls. Against the ominous backdrop of the influenza epidemic of 1918, Annie, a new girl at school, is claimed as best friend by Elsie, a classmate who is a tattletale, a liar, and a thief. A 12-year-old grapples with friendships, vengeful spirits, and the Spanish Flu epidemic in Hahn’s ( Took) chilling ghost story.
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