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The Old Willis Place

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Jessie

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Diana and Georgie saw the new caretaker coming. They noticed something different that separated him from the other caretakers. He had a daughter and he wasn't old like the others. Diana wanted to be friends with the girl. Georgie dissapproved of her crazy idea that broke the rules. The daugther, Lissa had a bike which Georgie rode and broke it. They threw it in the creek not far to hide the evidence. A few days later Lissa called Diana not by name, and Diana let Lissa see her, one of the most strict rules of all was not to let people see them, Lissa screamed at the sight of her. Diana didn't know what she screamed at. That night after Lissa had fallen asleep Diana snuck into the trailer and stole Lissa's diary. Diana read the diary and saw the entry that she was looking for. The one that said why Lissa was frightened about the sight of her Diana then realized that her apperence made her come across like savage or a squatter. Diana wrote back to Lissa in Lissa's diary telling Lissa to meet her at the lion bench on the terrace at noon. Lissa did meet Diana there they were both nervous. Diana snuck into the old Willis place to borrow some clothes from Miss Lilian to make herself presentable to Lissa. Lissa brought MacDuff, their dog, with her in case Diana was dangerous. After Lissa realized that Diana wasn't dangerous Georgie walked out of the woods which caused MacDuff to bark, because of MacDuff, Mr. Morrison came out and saw the three of them by the terrace. He asked what was going on. Georgie ran off after that. Mr. Morrison invited Diana in and offered her a drink but Diana couldn't drink anything but they didn't know so Diana refused the kind gesture. Lissa was asking many question about her and Georgie. One of the questions was who was her favorite actor. Diana's answer was Roy Rogers. Lissa had no idea who that was so she asked her father and he told her that Roy Rogers was a famous country western movie star from the 1950's. Lissa figured that, that was the only type of movie their parents let them watch because they were so strict. A few days later Mr. Morrison went to Home Depot. Diana came over a few minutes after he had left. Lissa took her fathers key to the old house and made Diana go inside with her. Lissa was very disrespcetful to Miss Lilian's old belongings. On the way out Lissa saw the parlor door where Miss Lilian had died over 10 years ago. The parlor had been left untouched for many years. Lissa grabbed the door knob and opened it right that second out flew Miss Lilian and she ran up the stairs and said, "I will get revenge on you Diana and your brother, Georgie" then ran into her room and slammed the door shut. Lissa screamed and sobbed all the way back to trailer. After they arrived back, Diana told Lissa to tell her dad to go in the cellar and look for a hidden door off the side because that was where the kids had been killed many years ago. Lissa asked how Diana knew all of this and Diana left and ran through the woods to the shed where she saw Georgie sitting on his bed petting Nero, their cat. The next night Diana and Georgie were standing by the gate it had snowed so they were standing on a tall snow bank after Mr. Morrison had found their bodys. Georgie was the only one who stood by the door as they brought their bodys out of the house. Georgie came to the trailer where the girls had stayed, Georgie told Diana how small the bags were they then realized how long it had been since the bad thing had happened and that all that was remaining was their skeletons. After the hearse and the police had left, they heard thier names being called, they knew it was Miss Lilian and they started running until Miss Lilian cornered them. Diana and Georgie didn't know what she wanted from them because she had killed them. Miss Lilian almost died that day and couldn't tell anyone where they were, Lissa saw all of this but did not hear any of it. The moon suddenly got realy close and really bright. They saw two figures walking down the highway as the figures got closer Diana and Georgie realized that the figures were thier parents. Miss Lilian yelled to them,"Don't leave me here all alone please don't leave me!" Diana forgave Miss Lilian and signled Miss Lilian to come with them. Lissa then realized that they were the kids who were killed and Lissa didn't understand why they would ever forgive her for what she did but they all walked into the light and Lissa never saw the five of them ever again.

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by Mary Downing Hahn

I read the book The Old Willis Place, by Mary Downing Hahn. I really liked this book because it is a classic ghost story with a great twist. After a while I began to think that they were ghosts. During the end of the book I didn’t think they would wind up reuniting with their parents. Also during the very end of the book I Did not think that Diana and Georgie would forgive Miss Lilian for killing them. I also didn’t think that even if Diana and Georgie forgave her, I didn’t think that their parents would allow Miss Lilian to come with them anyway. Like Lissa, I would have never have let Miss Lilian go with or ever understand why anyone in that situation would ever in a million years forgive someone who had either done that to me or my children. I know she didn’t intentionally kill them but still, I would never forgive her. This book kind of reminds me of a movie I have seen called The Others. Those are also some reason I would recommend this book to anyone who likes good ghost/ mystery story. Mary Downing Hahn is a very talented author and writes in such great detail. She is one of my favorite authors.

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