Thornhill /

By: Smy, Pam [author,, illustrator.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Roaring Brook Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First American editionDescription: 533 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781626726543; 9781910200612; 162672654XSubject(s): Bullying -- Juvenile fiction | Orphanages -- Juvenile fiction | Selective mutism -- Juvenile fiction | Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction | Puppets -- Juvenile fiction | Bullying -- Fiction | JUVENILE FICTION -- Family -- Orphans & Foster Homes | JUVENILE FICTION -- Ghost Stories | JUVENILE FICTION -- Mysteries & Detective Stories | JUVENILE FICTION -- Social Themes -- Bullying | Bullying | Conduct of life | Orphanages | Puppets | Selective mutism | Bullies -- Fiction | Orphanages -- Fiction | Speech disorders -- Fiction | Conduct of life -- Fiction | Puppets and puppet plays -- FictionGenre/Form: Fiction. | Ghost stories. | Juvenile works. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Ghost stories. Additional physical formats: Online version:: Thornhill.DDC classification: GN LOC classification: PZ7.1.S65718 | Tho 2017Awards: A Junior Library Guild selection.Summary: "Parallel plotlines set in different times, one told in text and one in art, inform each other as a young girl unravels the mystery of a ghost next door"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: 1982: Mary is a lonely orphan at the Thornhill Institute For Children at the very moment that it's shutting its doors. When her few friends are all adopted or re-homed and she's left to face a volatile bully alone, her revenge will have a lasting effect on the bully, on Mary, and on Thornhill itself.Summary: 2016: Ella has just moved to a new town where she knows no one. From her room on the top floor of her new home, she has a perfect view of the dilapidated, abandoned Thornhill Institute across the way, where she glimpses a girl in the window. Determined to befriend the girl, Ella resolves to unravel Thornhill's shadowy past.
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"Parallel plotlines set in different times, one told in text and one in art, inform each other as a young girl unravels the mystery of a ghost next door"-- Provided by publisher.

1982: Mary is a lonely orphan at the Thornhill Institute For Children at the very moment that it's shutting its doors. When her few friends are all adopted or re-homed and she's left to face a volatile bully alone, her revenge will have a lasting effect on the bully, on Mary, and on Thornhill itself.

2016: Ella has just moved to a new town where she knows no one. From her room on the top floor of her new home, she has a perfect view of the dilapidated, abandoned Thornhill Institute across the way, where she glimpses a girl in the window. Determined to befriend the girl, Ella resolves to unravel Thornhill's shadowy past.

A Junior Library Guild selection.