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Harmony House


No. of pages 304

Published: 2016

Great for age 7-10 years

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Carrie meets American Horror Story meets The Shining in this terrifying YA horror novel from the author of Tweak and Schizo.Somethings not right in Beach Haven.Jen Noonans father thinks a move to Harmony House is the key to salvation, but to everyone who has lived there before, it is a portal to pure horror.After her alcoholic mothers death, Jens father cracked. He dragged Jen to a dilapidated old manor on the shore of New Jersey to start their new livesbut Jen can tell that the place has an unhappy history. She can feel it the same way she can feel her anger flowing out of her, affecting the world in strange ways she cant explain.But Harmony House is more than just a creepy old estate. Its got a chilling pastand the more Jen discovers its secrets, the more the house awakens. Visions of a strange boy who lived in the house long ago follow Jen wherever she goes, and her fathers already-fragile sanity disintegrates before her eyes. As the forces in the house join together to terrorize Jen, she must find a way to escape the past she didnt know was haunting herand the mysterious and terrible power she didnt realize she had.

 

 

This book has been graded for interest at 14 years.

There are 304 pages in this book. This book was published in 2016 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc .

Nic Sheff and his father David Sheff captured a nation of readers with their bestselling memoirs, Tweak and Beautiful Boy . These books explore teen drug addiction from two different points of view: a father's and a son's. Nic currently lives in Los Angeles, California, and writes for TV, including for the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why .

 

"The haunting hells [Sheff] has brought to this debut are chillingly realistic, evoking the classic Kingsian horror of both Carrie and The Shining."--Booklist

 

"The interspersed narratives about the dreadful incidents that have happened in the house are gripping and disturbing... horror fans seeking a good scare may find some enjoyable dread here."--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

 

"Sheff writes solid suspense that recalls the classics: both Stephen King's The Shining and Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, among others. A solid and quite frightening tale of the supernatural."--Kirkus Reviews