![]() ![]() The girls aren’t in school long, though, before the influenza epidemic forces its closure. When Elsie returns, Annie finds herself on the other side of things, joining her new friends in teasing and tormenting Elsie. Soon Annie has the kind of friends she’s always had and has always wanted. Annie learns this firsthand when Elsie invites herself to Annie’s house and deliberately ruins Annie’s things.Īnnie wants nothing to do with Elsie, and when Elsie doesn’t come to school for a week, Annie takes advantage of the situation. No one likes Elsie, who makes life miserable for all her classmates, tattling, lying and thieving when it suits her. The book follows Annie as she enters a new school and is immediately claimed as best friend by Elsie, the school outcast. One For Sorrow takes place during WWI against the backdrop of the 1918 influenza epidemic. ![]() It’s with Wait Till Helen Comes in mind that I started reading Hahn’s latest middle-grade ghost story, One For Sorrow. ![]() It’s a book that’s always stuck with me the setting was absolute perfection. I got my paperback copy through a book order. ![]() The first book I read by Mary Downing Hahn was Wait Till Helen Comes. ONE FOR SORROW: A Ghost Story, by Mary Downing Hahn, Clarion Books, July 18, 2017, Hardcover, $16.99 (ages 10 and up) ![]()
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