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The List of Unspeakable Fears

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ISBN: 9781534480759
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Language: English
Page Count: 273
Publication Date: 9/13/2022
Size: 7.69" l x 5.16" w x 0.85"
Series: N/A

The War That Saved My Life meets Coraline in this “deliciously creepy” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) middle grade historical novel following an anxious young girl learning to face her fears—and her ghosts—against the backdrop of the typhoid epidemic.

Essie O’Neill is afraid of everything: cats, electric lights, and the silver sick bell, a family heirloom that conjures frightening memories. Most of all, she's afraid of the red door in her nightmares.

But soon Essie discovers so much more to fear. Now that her mother has remarried, they must move from their dilapidated tenement in the Bronx to North Brother Island, a dreary place in the East River. That's where Essie's stepfather runs a quarantine hospital for the incurable sick, including the infamous Typhoid Mary. Essie knows the island is plagued with tragedy. Years ago, she watched in horror as a steamboat sank near its shores, plummeting a thousand women and children to their deaths.

Something on the island is haunting Essie. And the red door from her dreams has become a reality, just down the hall in her terrifying new house. Convinced her stepfather is up to no good, Essie investigates. Yet to uncover the truth, she will have to face her own painful history—and what lies behind the red door.

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