31 Day Blogging Challenge Day 24: Favorite Childhood Book

I can remember several books I loved as a child: Nancy Drew, Hank the Cowdog, Sideways Stories From Wayside School... But my all time favorite childhood book is Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn.

Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their seven-year-old stepsister, Heather. Ever since their parents got married, she's made Molly and Michael's life miserable. Now their parents have moved them all to the country to live in a house that used to be a church, with a cemetery in the backyard. If that's not bad enough, Heather starts talking to a ghost named Helen and warning Molly and Michael that Helen is coming for them. Molly feels certain Heather is in some kind of danger, but every time she tries to help, Heather twists things around to get her into trouble. It seems as if things can't get any worse.

But they do; when Helen comes.

So, I've liked ghost stories since I was a child. I first read this book right around second grade and I loved it. I checked it out from the library multiple times. Now I own it (thank you, Goodwill) and have read it a couple of times in the past few years.

Recently, Lifetime released a movie called Little Girl's Secret, based on this book. Although, when I was looking up the movie on IMDB, it is listed under the book title. So I'm not completely sure who originally released it, but you can watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQl9I5EYS9M 

It may have been 20 years since I originally read this book, but it still brings me joy (and gives me a few chills) to this day. And just because it is a children's book doesn't mean adults will not enjoy it too. So read it if you haven't! Or, get your kids to read it if they like a good ghost story.