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    The House
    The House
    The House
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    The House

    By Raelyn Drake

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    The old, abandoned house at the end of Grace's street is a local legend. All the neighbors say it's haunted, but every Halloween someone leaves candy on the front porch. Grace and her friends decide to investigate, hoping to find out once and for all if someone—or something—really is haunting the place. But what if there is more to the house than there seems?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJan 1, 2018
    ISBN9781541517684
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    Raelyn Drake

    Raelyn Drake enjoys chai tea, tai chi, and coming up with more than two items for lists. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her husband and rescue corgi mix, Sheriff.

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      The House - Raelyn Drake

      Copyright © 2018 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.

      All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written permission of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc., except for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review.

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      Cover and interior images: AlenKadr/Shutterstock.com (texture); iStock.com/Vectorfactory (skyline); iStock.com/yanka444 (bricks); iStock.com/Nataly-Nete (window).

      Main body text set in Janson Text LT Std 12/17.5. Typeface provided by Adobe Systems.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Drake, Raelyn, author.

      Title: The house / Raelyn Drake.

      Description: Minneapolis : Darby Creek, [2018] | Series: Mason Falls mysteries | Summary: On a dare, Grace, Kat, and Damien agree to spend an hour in a house rumored to be haunted, and their scientific investigation reveals hidden truths.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017029165| ISBN 9781541501133 (lb) | ISBN 9781541501171 (pb) | ISBN 9781541501188 (eb pdf)

      Subjects: | CYAC: Haunted houses—Fiction. | Mystery and detective stories.

      Classification: LCC PZ7.1.D74 Hou 2018 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017029165

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      1-43785-33637-9/1/2017

      9781541517677 mobi

      9781541517684 ePub

      9781541517691 ePub

      TO MY SISTER AINA:

      IT'S LOCKED!"

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      Chapter 1

      As Grace Levine stared at the house, she could’ve sworn it stared right back at her. The house at the end of her block looked as run-down and empty as it always had. Even Grace’s mother had warned her to stay away from the place. Not that her mother believed in ghosts any more than Grace herself did, but the abandoned house had a creepy reputation among the residents of Mason Falls.

      Grace paused with her hand on the rusty iron gate and turned to her friends, Kat Tanaka and Damien Smith. You guys ready? she asked.

      Of course! Damien said, adjusting his gear bag on his shoulder. Those ghosts won’t stand a chance against our thorough scientific investigation.

      There’s only one ghost, according to legend, Grace pointed out. Cordelia Rose.

      Kat looked less sure than the rest of them, especially at the mention of Cordelia Rose. I thought she was a witch, she said, twisting the end of her braid around her finger.

      No, she wasn’t a witch, Grace said.

      I’ve heard it both ways, Damien said.

      She was a famous medium in the 1920s, Grace explained. Supposedly, she could get in touch with the spirits of the dead. And now her ghost haunts this house. At least that’s how the story goes.

      We don’t have to go in, Kat whispered. We can just tell Hector and Chrissy that we completed their stupid dare.

      Damien shook his head. They’ll totally know if we don’t spend the whole hour in there. In fact, they’re probably watching us right now.

      Grace looked uneasily over her shoulder at the deserted street. Cars passed occasionally on the main road a block away, but Cherry Avenue was a dead end.

      It was tradition at Mason Falls High for the seniors to choose a few underclassmen each year and dare them to spend one hour in the old house on Cherry Avenue. If you made it through the hour, you got special privileges like sitting with the seniors at lunch. If you failed, the seniors would tell everyone in the school that you were a cowardly crybaby.

      This year Grace and her friends were chosen. At first they had been tempted to ignore the challenge—for one thing, they saw sitting with people like Hector Rodriguez and Chrissy Boyd at lunch as more of a chore than a reward. But then they realized that they had a unique opportunity to make a change at their school. They had spent all week brainstorming, and now they were ready to put their plan into action.

      We need to get proof that shows everyone at school that the house isn’t haunted, Grace reminded them. And the only way to do that is to explore the house.

      "But what if the house is haunted?" Kat asked.

      It isn’t, Damien said.

      "But what if it is?" she repeated.

      Grace pulled her gaze away from her family’s house on the corner, where jack-o’-lanterns smiled

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