![]() ![]() ![]() Drew enters the house reluctantly, trailing his parents and Aunt at a distance. Blythe, who recently moved in to care for her father, who suffers from dementia, hopes to refurbish the place. Blythe’s father – Drew’s great-grandfather – is the current resident, having purchased it from his brother’s widow. Rights to the house have sparked family feuds through generations of Taylors. It’s a gloomy, long-neglected edifice, built in 1865 by Drew’s great-grandfather. Yet he has second thoughts upon arriving at her house. When his parents plan a digging excursion in France, Drew elects to stay with Aunt Blythe. Drew agrees to help him, and so begins his journey toward greater confidence and courage. During the night, he is visited by a dying boy whose appearance is strikingly similar to his own. When twelve-year-old Drew Taylor arrives from Chicago to stay the summer in Missouri with his Aunt Blythe, her creepy ancestral home fuels his over-active anxieties. Mary Downing Hahn’s 1994 children’s novel, A Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story, features a sinister old house replete with frightening sounds and shadows, but it’s actually a story of time-travel, not ghosts. ![]()
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