I’ve seen a few of Mary Downing Hahn’s videos floating around classroom libraries the past few years, but this is the first one I’ve read. As far as middle grade horror goes, this rocks. It’s so rare to find horror for middle schoolers that isn’t too childish, but isn’t too advanced. This hits the spot of being spooky, even scary, but not holding back too much. 

But as an older reader, I had to take a few points off for a really predictable plot and pretty dry characters. I think there could have been some simple tweaks that would have protected the tone and mood of the book while amping up the mystery and plot twists of the story.