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  • Published: 16 November 2021
  • ISBN: 9780735269064
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 360
  • RRP: $35.00

The Dollhouse: A Ghost Story





A creepy, mysterious dollhouse takes center stage in this atmospheric middle-grade mystery for fans of Doll Bones and Small Spaces.

A creepy, mysterious dollhouse takes center stage in this atmospheric middle-grade mystery for fans of Doll Bones and Small Spaces.

Alice's world is falling apart. Her parents are getting a divorce, and they've cancelled their yearly cottage trip -- the one thing that gets Alice through the school year. Instead, Alice and her mom are heading to some small town where Alice's mom will be a live-in nurse to a rich elderly lady.

The house is huge, imposing and spooky, and everything inside is meticulously kept and perfect -- not a fun place to spend the summer. Things start to get weird when Alice finds a dollhouse in the attic that's an exact replica of the house she's living in. Then she wakes up to find a girl asleep next to her in her bed -- a girl who looks a lot like one of the dolls from the dollhouse . . .

When the dollhouse starts to change when Alice isn't looking, she knows she has to solve the mystery. Who are the girls in the dollhouse? What happened to them? And what is their connection to the mean and mysterious woman who owns the house?

  • Published: 16 November 2021
  • ISBN: 9780735269064
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 360
  • RRP: $35.00

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Praise for The Dollhouse: A Ghost Story

PRAISE FOR The Painting:

"[A] cleverly constructed, compellingly paced mystery that's part time-slip story, part ghost story, part meditation on the power of dreaming. . . . Full of emotional truth and connection." --Kirkus Reviews

ACCOLADES FOR The Swallow:

  • Winner, IODE Violet Downey Book Award
  • Selected, VOYA Top Shelf honoree of 2014
  • Listed, OLA Best Bet, Junior Fiction Top 10
  • Listed as #3 in Amazon.ca Best Books of September for Children and Teens
  • Nominated, Saskatchewan Young Reader's Choice Diamond Willow Award, 2014
  • Selected, one of the Kidlit Books of the Year (2014) by Quill & Quire
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