The list of unspeakable fears / J. Kasper Kramer.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: 273 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781534480742
- 1534480749
- Emotional problems -- Fiction
- Supernatural -- Fiction
- Typhoid Mary, 1869-1938 -- Juvenile fiction
- Fear -- Juvenile fiction
- Anxiety in children -- Juvenile fiction
- Emotional problems of teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
- Grief -- Juvenile fiction
- Stepfathers -- Juvenile fiction
- Communicable diseases -- Juvenile fiction
- North Brother Island (N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Juvenile fiction
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | KRAMER J. KASPE | Available | 33111010740484 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The War That Saved My Life meets Coraline in this "deliciously creepy" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) middle grade historical novel following an anxious young girl learning to face her fears--and her ghosts--against the backdrop of the typhoid epidemic.
Essie O'Neill is afraid of everything. She's afraid of cats and electric lights. She's afraid of the silver sick bell, a family heirloom that brings up frightening memories. Most of all, she's afraid of the red door in her nightmares.
But soon Essie discovers so much more to fear. Her mother has remarried, and they must move from their dilapidated tenement in the Bronx to North Brother Island, a dreary place in the East River. That's where Essie's new stepfather runs a quarantine hospital for the incurable sick, including the infamous Typhoid Mary. Essie knows the island is plagued with tragedy. Years ago, she watched in horror as the ship General Slocum caught fire and sank near its shores, plummeting one thousand women and children to their deaths.
Now, something on the island is haunting Essie. And the red door from her dreams has become a reality, just down the hall from her bedroom in her terrifying new house. Convinced her stepfather is up to no good, Essie investigates. Yet to uncover the truth, she will have to face her own painful history--and what lies behind the red door.
Ages 8 to 12 . Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
In 1910 New York City, four years after her Irish immigrant father dies of tuberculosis, ten-year-old Essie's fear and anxiety continue to grow uncontrollably, so much that when her mother, a brave nurse, remarries and the family moves to North Brother Island, where Essie's new stepfather runs a quarantine hospital for the incurably sick, Essie imagines all manner of horrors, including the ghost of a little girl--which might not be imaginary after all.