Mary Downing Hahn

7 Series

Mary Downing Hahn is an acclaimed American author known for her children's and young adult novels, particularly her ghost stories and mysteries. Her books, which span historical, contemporary, and fantasy genres, have sold over 2 million copies and frequently win children's choice awards. A former school librarian, Hahn was born and raised in Maryland, where she continues to live and set many of her stories.

In "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn, siblings Diana and Georgie are bound to the woods behind a decaying Victorian mansion, forbidden to leave or be seen. The arrival of a new caretaker and his daughter, Lissa, tempts Diana to break these mysterious rules. Desperate for friendship, Diana considers revealing herself to Lissa. Their connection may be the key to freeing Diana and Georgie from the secret that has kept them captive at the old Willis place.

Gordy Smith

Stepping on the Cracks

(1991)

Following My Own Footsteps

(1996)

As Ever, Gordy

(1998)

Anna

Anna All Year Round

(1999)

Anna on the Farm

(2001)

Standalone Novels

The Sara Summer

(1979)

The Time of the Witch

(1982)

Daphne's Book

(1983)

The Jellyfish Season

(1985)

Wait Till Helen Comes

(1986)

Tallahassee Higgins

(1987)

Following the Mystery Man

(1988)

December Stillness

(1988)

The Doll in the Garden

(1989)

The Dead Man in Indian Creek

(1990)

The Spanish Kidnapping Disaster

(1991)

The Wind Blows Backward

(1993)

Time for Andrew

(1994)

Look for Me by Moonlight

(1995)

The Gentleman Outlaw and Me

(1996)

Promises to the Dead

(2000)

Hear the Wind Blow

(2003)

The Old Willis Place

(2004)

Janey and the Famous Author

(2005)

Witch Catcher

(2006)

Deep and Dark and Dangerous

(2007)

All the Lovely Bad Ones

(2008)

Closed for the Season

(2009)

The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall

(2010)

Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls

(2012)

Where I Belong

(2014)

Took

(2015)

One for Sorrow

(2017)

The Girl in the Locked Room

(2018)

Guest

(2019)

The Thirteenth Cat

(2021)

What We Saw

(2022)

Graphic Novels

Took

(2022)

Wait Till Helen Comes

(2022)

The Old Willis Place

(2024)

Avon Camelot

Lottie & Lisa

(1952)(By: Erich Kastner)

Summerdog Comes Home

(1980)(By: George Albert Zabriskie)

A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher

(1981)(By: Mike Thaler)

Baseball Fever

(1981)(By: Ray Cruz,Johanna Hurwitz)

The Trouble with Tuck

(1981)(By: Theodore Taylor)

Irma and Jerry

(1982)(By: George Selden)

Basic Fun

(1982)(By: Susan Drake Lipscomb,Margaret Ann Zusnich)

Esp McGee

(1983)(By: Edward Packard)

Tunnel to Yesterday

(1983)(By: Jerome Beatty Jr.)

Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You

(1983)(By: Vicki Cobb)

Rich Mitch

(1983)(By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat)

Summerdog

(1983)(By: Thom Roberts)

Bet You Can't!

(1983)(By: Kathy Darling,Vicki Cobb)

The Earth is Flat--And Other Great Mistakes

(1983)(By: Laurence Pringle)

Behind the Attic Wall

(1983)(By: Sylvia Cassedy)

Peggy Fleming: Portrait of an Iceskater

(1984)(By: Bruce Curtis,Stephanie Young)

Gremlins

(1984)(By: George Gipe)

Maura's Angel

(1984)(By: Lynne Reid Banks)

The Jellyfish Season

(1985)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1

(1985)(By: Andrew Glass,Catherine Edwards Sadler)

Get Rich Mitch!

(1985)(By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat)

Mystery of the Melted Diamonds

(1986)(By: Carol Farley)

Ukrainian Egg Mystery

(1986)(By: George E. Stanley)

Moroccan Mystery

(1986)(By: Thomas McKean)

Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol

(1986)(By: Steve Senn)

Flash Fry, Private Eye

(1986)(By: Tim Schoch)

The Anti-Peggy Plot

(1986)(By: Thomas McKean)

Best Joke Book for Kids 2

(1987)(By: Joan Eckstein)

The Codebreaker Kids

(1987)(By: George E. Stanley)

Summer Camp Creeps

(1987)(By: Tim Schoch)

The Case of the Lost Look-Alike

(1988)(By: Carol Farley)

Breezy

(1988)(By: Leda Blumberg)

Racing the Sun

(1988)(By: Paul Pitts)

Anne Frank

(1989)(By: Johanna Hurwitz)

The Case of the Vanishing Villain

(1990)(By: Carol Farley)

Something Upstairs

(1990)(By: C.S. Adler)

Ghost Brother

(1990)(By: C.S. Adler)

A Haunting in Williamsburg

(1990)(By: Lou Kassem)

The Best Ever Kids' Book of Lists

(1991)(By: Eugenie Allen)

Ask Me Anything About the Presidents

(1992)(By: Louis Phillips)

The Adventures of King Midas

(1992)(By: Lynne Reid Banks)

Tons of Trash

(1992)(By: Joan Rattner Heilman)

Maria, a Christmas Story

(1992)(By: Theodore Taylor)

How to Travel Through Time

(1993)(By: James M. Deem)

Lucie Babbidge's House

(1993)(By: Sylvia Cassedy)

Beardance

(1993)(By: Will Hobbs)

Christmas Countdown

(1993)(By: Steve Englehart)

Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers

(1994)(By: Mike Thaler)

The Mummy's Curse

(1994)(By: Daniel Cohen)

Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble

(1994)(By: Anne C. Lemieux)

Main Street

(1994)(By: Susan Kirby)

Comet Luck

(1994)(By: Madge Harrah)

Kwanzaa

(1995)(By: Mildred Pitts Walter)

Vampire Mom

(1995)(By: Don Whittington)

My Own Two Feet

(1995)(By: Beverly Cleary)

Spookhouse

(1995)(By: Don Whittington)

Harry the Poisonous Centipede

(1996)(By: Lynne Reid Banks)

Going for the Gold: Shannon Miller

(1996)(By: Septima Green)

Four Perfect Pebbles

(1996)(By: Lila Perl,Marion Blumenthal Lazan)

Zombie Queen

(1996)(By: Don Whittington)

Freak Show

(1996)(By: Don Whittington)

Going to Net

(1996)(By: Various)

Tracks in the Snow

(1997)(By: Lucy Jane Bledsoe)

Danger Along the Ohio

(1997)(By: Patricia Willis)

Lasting Echoes

(1997)(By: Joseph Bruchac)

Night of the Chupacabras

(1998)(By: Marie G. Lee)

As Ever, Gordy

(1998)

No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War

(1998)(By: Anita Lobel)

Becoming Felix

(1998)(By: Nancy Hope Wilson)

Breakaway

(1998)(By: Kimberley Griffiths Little)

Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me

(1998)(By: Dawn Knight)

It's In Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz

(1998)(By: Jacqueline Shannon)

Leaving Summer

(1998)(By: Donal Harding)

Flea Circus Summer

(1998)(By: Cheryl Ware)

Calling Me Home

(1998)(By: Patricia Hermes)

The Pizza That Time Forgot

(1999)(By: William DeAndrea,Matthew Deandrea)

Love Me, Love My Broccoli

(1999)(By: Julie Anne Peters)

Get on the Net

(1999)(By: Robert Pondiscio)

Don't Try This at Home!

(1999)(By: Vicki Cobb)

Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters

(1999)(By: Bruce Coville)

A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights

(1999)(By: Kathleen Krull)

Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors

(1999)(By: Bruce Coville)

Green Mango Magic

(1999)(By: Sylvie Hossack)

All the Answers

(2000)(By: Anne C. Lemieux)

Can of Worms

(2000)(By: Kathy MacKel)

Orphan Journey Home

(2000)(By: Liza Ketchum)

Bearstone

(2000)(By: Will Hobbs)

Alice-by-Accident

(2000)(By: Lynne Reid Banks)

Death at Devil's Bridge

(2000)(By: Cynthia C. DeFelice)

Short Story Collections

The Puppet's Payback and Other Chilling Tales

(2020)

Anthologies

Don't Give Up the Ghost

(1993)

Totally Middle School

(2018)

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