The author of wildly popular ghost stories, Mary Downing Hahn has created a group of tales for fans of her scary but not too scary books. Even the stories without actual ghosts are spooky. Each tale turns something ordinary-a pigeon, a white dress, a stranger on the bus, a puppet-into a sinister link to to the supernatural. For the human characters, secrets from the past or careless behavior in the present can lead to serious trouble. All the stories have a young person as the central character, so all will resonate with young readers who enjoy the eerie, the creepy, and the otherworldly. In a concluding note, the author talks about how she came to write ghost stories. | The Puppet's Payback And Other Chilling Tales by Mary Downing Hahn, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters