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Haunted Houses

by Dinah Williams
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Most haunted houses were once the scenes of gruesome events or some deep human unhappiness. Rose Hall Great House in Jamaica is no exception. The mistress of the house, Annie Palmer, began her reign of terror at 18. As a girl, her parents had relocated from Ireland to Haiti and promptly died of yellow fever, leaving Annie in the care of a Haitian nanny rumored to be a voodoo priestess. It is said that she trained Annie in the occult. After marrying John Palmer in 1780, Annie reportedly murdered him by poisoning his coffee. Thereafter, she had numerous boyfriends murdered along with two more husbands. When Annie finally died, the slaves burned all of her possessions and buried her as deep in the ground as they could. The house is still said to be haunted by "The White Witch of Rose Hall," and the story of Annie's haunting is the basis for over a dozen gothic novels. This nonfiction account of a haunted house along with 10 other haunted house histories will keep young readers on the edges of their chairs, scarily awake! Haunted Houses is part of Bearport's Scary Places series.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Scary Places

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    January 8, 2008

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781684028740

    • PDF ebook

      • ISBN: 9781597166720
      • File size: 13144 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 5.1
    • Lexile® Measure: 820
    • Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
    • Text Difficulty: 3-4

  • Reviews

    • The Horn Book

      July 1, 2008
      This series explores high-interest topics engagingly (if superficially). Each double-page spread features an actual "scary place," with paragraphs of history and some examples of spooky happenings. Photos, computer-manipulated images, and cheesy graphics illustrate the texts. Accessible language and sensationalized content will keep these books from growing dusty on library shelves. Reading list. Bib., glos., ind.

      (Copyright 2008 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

Formats

  • OverDrive Read
  • PDF ebook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:5.1
  • Lexile® Measure:820
  • Interest Level:4-8(MG)
  • Text Difficulty:3-4

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