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Name: The House of Dies Drear

Author: Virginia Hamilton
Year: 1968
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Popularity: 1.7
Genres/categories: Young adult, Mystery, Historical fiction, Classic

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ISBN:
9780134374918
9780395775233
9780788703294
9780812451481
9781416914051
9781557361738
9781581180879
0134374916
039577523X
0788703293
0812451481
140255043X
1416914056
1557361738
158118087X
The house held secrets, Thomas knew, even before he first saw it looming gray and massive on its ledge of rock. It had a century-old legend -- two fugitive slaves had been killed by bounty hunters after leaving its passageways, and Dies Drear himself, the abolitionist who had made the house into a station on the Underground Railroad, had been murdered there. The ghosts of the three were said to walk its rooms....
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