Took (eBook)

';Folks say Old Auntie takes a girl and keeps her fifty yearsthen lets her go and takes another one.' Thirteen-year-old Daniel Anderson doesn't believe Brody Mason's crazy stories about the ghost witch who lives up on Brewster's Hill with Bloody Bones, her man-eating razorback hog. He figures Brody's probably just trying to scare him since he's the new kid . . . a ';stuck-up snot' from Connecticut. But Daniel's seven-year-old sister Erica has become more and more withdrawn, talking to her lookalike doll. When she disappears into the woods one day, he knows something is terribly wrong. Did the witch strike? Has Erica been ';took'?

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Daniel doesnt believe the woods behind his new home are haunted by an evil witch and her terrifying beast. But then his little sister disappears . . . and its up to him to find her. Mary Downing Hahns popular page-turner will thrill readers who love spooky stories.They say that a ghost witch lives in the woods, up on the hill. They say her companion has a pig skull for a face and stands taller than a man, his skeleton gleaming in the moonlight. They say that the witch takes young girls, and no one ever sees them again.Daniel doesnt believe the stories. He figures the kids on the bus are just trying to scare him since hes new. Still, he wishes his family had never moved heretheir house is a wreck, Mom and Dad keep fighting, and his little sister, Erica, spends most of her time talking to her creepy doll.But when Erica disappears into the woods one day, Daniel knows something is terribly wrong. Has she been took?Mary Downing Hahn is one of the most popular middle grade authors in the world, winner of numerous state awards as well as the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction(forStepping on the Cracks) and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award (forClosed for the Season).