Standout achievements: Though written for kids, Wait Till Helen Comes holds up amazingly well for adult readers. I mean, I didn’t cry or anything (I reserve crying for more appropriate events such as weddings, funerals, or feigning medical emergencies so I can get ahead in long lines) but it was a surprisingly touching book Greatest strengths: I wasn’t expecting Wait Till Helen Comes to have such a strong emotional impact on me. So if you want to find out what happens when Molly follows Heather to the graveyard, you’re just going to have to read the book. I’m not going to tell you what it is because then you’ll get all freaked out and send me hateful messages because I gave a spoiler, even though it’s not really a spoiler. Most memorable scene: What Molly sees - and hears - when she follows Heather to the graveyard. Notable characters: Molly, the twelve-year-old main character Michael, her little brother Heather, their strange younger stepsister Helen, Heather’s mysterious friend … who just so happens to be dead (because you can’t have too many dead friends, I don’t care who you are) It was the loneliest sound I’d ever heard, as lonely as a ghost who had been lying alone in the dark for a hundred years.” My favorite quote: “A breeze sighed through the leaves of the oak. Wait Till Helen Comes, Mary Downing Hahn, 1986
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