Emily was a selfish, willful, hateful child who died before her thirteenth birthday. But that was a long time ago. Jane is nine years old and an orphan when she and her young Aunt Louisa come to spend the summer at Jane's grandmother's house, a large, mysterious mansion in Massachusetts. Then one day . . . Jane stares into a reflecting ball in the garden—and the face that looks back at her is not her own. Many years earlier, a child of rage and malevolence lived in this place. And she never left. Now Emily has dark plans for little Jane—a blood-chilling purpose that Louisa, just a girl herself, must battle with all her heart, soul, and spirit . . . or she will lose her innocent, helpless niece forever. One of the most adored ghost stories of all time is available again after thirty years—to thrill and chill a new generation!

Jane-Emily: And Witches' Children

Literature & Fiction

Clapp, Patricia

United States

William Morrow Paperbacks

Constance : A Story of Early Plymouth

A young girl's diary reflects life in Plymouth Colony.

Constance

Children's Books

Puffin

An eighteen-year-old English girl finds her loyalties divided and all her resources tested as she and her friends experience the terrible physical and emotional hardships of the forty-seven day siege of Vicksburg in the spring of 1863.

The Tamarack Tree

Teen & Young Adult

Puffin Books

During the winter of 1692, when the young girls of Salem suddenly find themselves subject to fits of screaming and strange visions, some believe that they have seen the devil and are the victims of witches.

Witches' Children

Jane-Emily

While spending the summer in an old Massachusetts house, an eighteen-year-old girl and her niece become increasingly aware of the presence of a spirit that seems determined to harm them

Genre Fiction

Laurel-Leaf

A miniature royal family moves into the dollhouse of an only child and keeps her company the summer her mother is writing a story for children.

King of the Dollhouse

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

scholastic

During the winter of 1692, when the young girls of Salem suddenly find themselves subject to fits of screaming and strange visions, some believe that they have seen the devil and are the victims of witches.

Witches' Children: A Story of Salem

William Morrow & Co.

Orphaned at thirteen, Rosemary Leigh was transplanted from England to Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1859. Four years later, to distract her from her fear as cannonballs batter the besieged city, Rosemary writes about what she has been through.
While she has been growing up, enjoying the social pleasures of a Southern young lady, the tensions between North and South have developed into civil war. Because she is English, Rosemary brings an outsider's perspective to the issues that sparked the conflict, but nonetheless she is torn between her sense of outrage at the very idea of slavery and her feelings for the Southerners she has come to love. For Rosemary, her brother Derek, and their American friends -- old and young, white and black -- the disastrous siege of Vicksburg comes as a crucial test of courage and the will to survive.
Once again, Patricia Clapp has created a heroine of wit, charm, and indomitable spirit in a vividly evoked historical setting.

Historical Fiction

HarperTeen

While spending the summer in an old Massachusetts house, an eighteen-year-old girl and her niece become increasingly aware of the presence of a spirit that seems determined to harm them

Beech Tree Books

The Indians started some sort of rhythmic chanting, with a clapping of their hands to accent it, and I sat a little apart at, one of the fires listening. It was a strange sound that somehow sent my blood pulsing more quickly and made me wish I could stand up and dance round and round the fire, but this I knew would not be fitting. Of a sudden I was aware of someone beside me, and turning, saw Ted Leister easing himself down to the ground. I thought it best to say nothing of the disagreement he and t'other Ted had, so I spoke of the singing. "It nigh makes me giddy," I said. "'Tis not at all like English singing." "If it makes you giddy, lie back and close your eyes," Ted Leister told me. "'Twill soon pass." I did as he suggested, and I could feel the very earth under me throbbing from the beat and beat and beat of the voices and hands. My eyes were closed, but the dizziness got no better and I moved to sit up when I felt Ted's hand push me gently back again, and then he kissed me.

Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth

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Jane-Emily: And Witches' Children

Constance

The Tamarack Tree

Witches' Children

Jane-Emily

King of the Dollhouse

Witches' Children: A Story of Salem

The Tamarack Tree

Jane-Emily

Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth