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Girls of the Good Day Orphanage
The Secret House
Miss Plum's scary stories soon start to seem very real to the girls at the Good Day Orphanage, and soon Phoebe and Tatty begin to believe that the house down the street really is haunted.
- GenresChildrens
78 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1992
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January 15, 2024
I likely saw Carol Beach York in our high school book catalogues, from which my Mom happily let me choose a few brand new paperbacks annually. We miss you, Mom!
It was secondhand that I gathered this author’s work and I took a decade or more to open it. It is fun to look at my database and be reminded that I knew four of her books. The fourth received four stars and the rest earned three.
“The Ghost Of The Isherwoods” 1966
“The Witch Lady Mystery” 1976
“When Midnight Comes” 1979
“The Secret” 1984.
Sometimes there are bonafide mysteries. Oftentimes characters ponder and investigate an oddity in their neighbourhood, or where they are staying. Progressing chronologically somehow, when charity shopping is random: “The Secret House” brings me to the year 1992, when I was a teenager. Irene Trivas is the illustrator.
Carol wrote modernly for the times but this sounds oldest, even though it is three decades more recent than her 1966 drama. An orphanage might imply bygone days but it is on a city street with neighbouring houses. I would have to skim a few pages to reprise the feel of it. I read it on Hallowe’en and am writing in January 2024. Carol ascended in 2013 at age 85. I bet it would please her that she continues being read and discovered too. Her age certainly produced old-fashioned manners and dialogue.
I have given Carol three stars for the fourth time but am impressed with the originality and suspenseful atmosphere of this novel in particular. An orphanage storyteller describes eerie events that seem to actually occur nearby. I subtracted one star for not letting us in on the secret source of the storyteller! Short youth literature presents oddities without room for histories. It leaves us wanting more!
It was secondhand that I gathered this author’s work and I took a decade or more to open it. It is fun to look at my database and be reminded that I knew four of her books. The fourth received four stars and the rest earned three.
“The Ghost Of The Isherwoods” 1966
“The Witch Lady Mystery” 1976
“When Midnight Comes” 1979
“The Secret” 1984.
Sometimes there are bonafide mysteries. Oftentimes characters ponder and investigate an oddity in their neighbourhood, or where they are staying. Progressing chronologically somehow, when charity shopping is random: “The Secret House” brings me to the year 1992, when I was a teenager. Irene Trivas is the illustrator.
Carol wrote modernly for the times but this sounds oldest, even though it is three decades more recent than her 1966 drama. An orphanage might imply bygone days but it is on a city street with neighbouring houses. I would have to skim a few pages to reprise the feel of it. I read it on Hallowe’en and am writing in January 2024. Carol ascended in 2013 at age 85. I bet it would please her that she continues being read and discovered too. Her age certainly produced old-fashioned manners and dialogue.
I have given Carol three stars for the fourth time but am impressed with the originality and suspenseful atmosphere of this novel in particular. An orphanage storyteller describes eerie events that seem to actually occur nearby. I subtracted one star for not letting us in on the secret source of the storyteller! Short youth literature presents oddities without room for histories. It leaves us wanting more!
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March 9, 2022
Cute and suspenseful
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