The War That Saved My Life meets Coraline in this chilling middle grade historical novel from the author of the acclaimed The Story That Cannot Be Told following an anxious young girl learning to face her fears--and her ghosts--against the backdrop of the typhoid epidemic.
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When she\'s not curled up with a book, Kramer loves researching lost fairy tales, playing video games, and fostering kittens.
She has a master\'s degree in creative writing and once upon a time lived in Japan, where she taught at an international school.
She\'s an author and English professor in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Kasper Kramer is the author of the acclaimed novel The Story That Cannot Be Told as well as The List of Unspeakable Fears .
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Yet to uncover the truth, she will have to face her own painful history--and what lies behind the red door.
Convinced her stepfather is up to no good, Essie investigates.
And the red door from her dreams has become a reality, just down the hall from her bedroom in her terrifying new house.
Now, something on the island is haunting Essie.
Years ago, she watched in horror as the ship General Slocum caught fire and sank near its shores, plummeting one thousand women and children to their deaths.
Essie knows the island is plagued with tragedy.
That\'s where Essie\'s new stepfather runs a quarantine hospital for the incurable sick, including the infamous Typhoid Mary.
Her mother has remarried, and they must move from their dilapidated tenement in the Bronx to North Brother Island, a dreary place in the East River.
But soon Essie discovers so much more to fear.
Most of all, she\'s afraid of the red door in her nightmares.
She\'s afraid of the silver sick bell, a family heirloom that brings up frightening memories.
She\'s afraid of cats and electric lights.
Essie O\'Neill is afraid of everything.
The War That Saved My Life meets Coraline in this chilling middle grade historical novel from the author of the acclaimed The Story That Cannot Be Told following an anxious young girl learning to face her fears--and her ghosts--against the backdrop of the typhoid epidemic
