Book description
Emily was a selfish, willful, hateful child who died before her thirteenth birthday. But that was a long time ago.
Jane is nine years old and an orphan when she and her young Aunt Louisa come to spend the summer at Jane's grandmother's house, a large, mysterious mansion in Massachusetts.…
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2 authors picked Jane-Emily as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Jane-Emily is a YA classic, both a sweet romance and a spooky ghost mystery, set in the early 1900s.
It’s also the book I described in my introduction as the one that made me fall in love with this genre! I first read it when I was about ten, and I immediately recommended it to my best friend, who was also an avid reader. To this day, we are both still scared of those mirrored gazing balls people display in gardens.
When my own children were young, I bought an old paperback on eBay and read it to them, savoring…
From Kathryn's list on romantic ghost stories.
I’m cheating a little here to call this a spooky romance, but in this case, it was the book that made me fall in love with ghost stories! I still remember this book sweeping the class in fifth grade, all of us scared out of our wits and seeing the evil Emily under every desk and in every mirror. Little did we realize that, by all reading the book at the same time and talking about it nonstop, we were also participating in our very first book club. Elementary school is the magic age to hook readers, and Jane-Emily …
From Christina's list on spooky romance for chilly nights.
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