OL2006659W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 87.84 Pages 150 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0060213159 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:07:42 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA155412 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York DonorĪllen_countydonation Edition Book Club ed. Chang, Buxton School, Williamstown, MAĬopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. The spare, vivid prose sustains the suspense, drawing readers inexorably toward a climax as satisfying as it is unexpected. Zoe discovers that her house is occupied by the ghost of an eleven-year-old girl, who carries her back to the day of her death in 1870 to try to alter that. Conrad's oblique evocation of horror is as intense as her portrayal of madness in Prairie Songs (Harper, 1985). Then Zoe Louise turns spectral, decaying before her playmate's eyes, and the modern Zoe is impelled into the past, where she finds herself locked in a struggle with fate, her best friend's life at stake. The roses were planted 100 years ago, Zoe's mother says, by a mother whose daughter Zoe died on her eleventh birthday and now lies buried in the cemetery. Conrad's Eden of backyard and playhouse becomes sinister when Zoe's mother appears and takes Zoe into the woods, where a bank of roses marks the border of an earlier garden. Stonewords shares many devices with Philippa Pearce's Tom's Midnight Garden (Lippincott, 1984) comparison of the two books could stimulate a fascinating literary discussion. Zoe Louise becomes Zoe's beloved playmate, invisible to grownups.

She immediately discovers that their 19th-century house is haunted by Zoe Louise, a beautiful child dressed in old-fashioned clothes, eagerly anticipating her eleventh birthday party.

Zoe tells her story, beginning when she is five and comes to live with her devoted, nurturing grandparents. This scene sets the mood for an eerie and gripping time fantasy by a talented writer.

Grade 5-9- In a cemetery on an island off the northern coast of America, Zoe's unstable mother weeps for the dead, while Zoe stares at a gravestone with a single legible inscription: her own name.

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