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An edition of Behind the Attic Wall
(1983)
Behind the Attic Wall
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by Sylvia Cassedy
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At twelve, Maggie had been thrown out of more boarding schools than she cared to remember. "Impossible to handle," they said nasty, mean, disobedient, rebellious, thieving anything they could say to explain why she must be removed from the school.
Maggie was thin and pale, with shabby clothes and stringy hair, when she arrived at her new home. "It was a mistake to bring her here," said Maggie's great-aunts, whose huge stone house looked like another boarding school or a prison. But they took her in anyway. After all, aside from Uncle Morris, they were Maggie's only living relatives.
But from behind the closet door in the great and gloomy house, Maggie hears the faint whisperings, the beckoning voices. And in the forbidding house of her ancestors, Maggie finds magic...the kind that lets her, for the first time, love and be loved.
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china dolls, foster homes, boarding schools, Family life, Fiction, Ghosts, Orphans, foster children, dolls, Ghost stories, Families, Juvenile audience, Children's fiction, Houses, fiction, Orphans, fiction, Magic, fiction, Fantasy fiction, Girls, fictionPeople
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Behind the Attic Wall
June 1999, Peter Smith Publisher
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Behind the Attic Wall (Avon Camelot Books)
October 1999, Tandem Library
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in English
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Behind the Attic Wall
/1993, Avon Camelot
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- First Avon Camelot printing
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Behind the Attic Wall
1985 03, Avon Camelot Books
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Behind the Attic Wall
1985-03, FollettBound
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- First Avon Camelot printing
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Behind the Attic Wall is a children's novel by Sylvia Cassedy, first published in 1983.
At twelve, Maggie had been thrown out of more boarding schools than she cared to remember. "Impossible to handle," they said nasty, mean, disobedient, rebellious, thieving anything they could say to explain why she must be removed from the school.
Maggie was thin and pale, with shabby clothes and stringy hair, when she arrived at her new home. "It was a mistake to bring her here," said Maggie's great-aunts, whose huge stone house looked like another boarding school or a prison. But they took her in anyway. After all, aside from Uncle Morris, they were Maggie's only living relatives.
But from behind the closet door in the great and gloomy house, Maggie hears the faint whisperings, the beckoning voices. And in the forbidding house of her ancestors, Maggie finds magic...the kind that lets her, for the first time, love and be loved.
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