The House Of Dies Drear

ISBN-10: 1416914056
ISBN-13: 9781416914051
Author: Hamilton, Virginia
Interest Level: 6-9
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Publication Date: January 2006

Copyright: 2006

Page Count: 256

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Interest Level

Grades 6-9

Reading Level

Guided Reading: V
Lexile: 670L
Accelerated Reader Level: 4.8
Accelerated Reader Points: 9.0

BISAC Subjects

African Americans; Juvenile fiction

African Americans; Juvenile fiction

African Americans; Juvenile fiction

Description
A family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad in this Edgar Award-winning book from Virginia Hamilton. 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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