The Old Willis Place
Mary Downing Hahn

Reviewed by:
    Hannah N.

Adventure
 

Plot:

 
This story is about two young children that live alone and are never seen. They live in an old house that their mother cleaned before she passed away. It was still standing next to where they once lived. Caretakers would come every once in a while and try to take the house. The two kids would try to drag them away. But someone new comes and the young girl begins to like her as a good friend. Will she give away the story about her and her brother? Find out in The Old Willis Place!

good:

The story is set back in the old days when people passed away and a caretaker would come and take away whoever didn't belong there. The two characters in this book are two young kids who lost their family and had stayed in the forest where they lived and waited for their parents. They never took showers and were disgusting. The writing style makes me a little scared because it's a ghost story.

weaknesses:

Some weaknesses are that the author did not begin with a good beginning at all. That made me not want to read the book. I still kept going. The characters frightened me a little and I didn't like them that much. Where the children were was not a safe place. They were in the woods, deep in the woods. I would not recommend this to little children at all.




 

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