The agony house / Cherie Priest ; illustrated by Tara O'Connor.
By: Priest, Cherie [author.].
Contributor(s): O'Connor, Tara [illustrator.].
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First edition.Description: 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780545934299; 054593429X; 9781338267310; 1338267310.Subject(s): Ghost stories | Haunted houses -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Juvenile fiction | Murder -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Juvenile fiction | Detective and mystery stories | Mystery and detective stories | Ghosts -- Fiction | Haunted houses -- Fiction | Murder -- Fiction | Detective and mystery stories | Ghost stories | Haunted houses | Murder | Young adult fiction | New Orleans (La.) -- Juvenile fiction | New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction | Louisiana -- New OrleansGenre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction. | Ghost stories. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Fiction. | Ghost stories. | Juvenile works. | Mystery fiction.Summary: Seventeen-year-old Denise Farber, her mom, and her stepfather are moving back to New Orleans, into the Argonne house, which is over 150 years old, and really showing its age, but which her mother plans to turn into a bed-and-breakfast--but old houses have histories, and sometimes ghosts, and a mysterious old comic book that Denise finds in the attic may hold the answer to a crime and the terrifying things that keep happening in what she thinks of as the "Agony" house.Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | Gloucester Twp. | Fiction | Young Adult | Y Pri (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 05000010051220 | |||
Book | South County | Fiction | Young Adult | Y Pri (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 05/16/2024 | 05000009019709 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A haunted house, a killer ghost, and a long-lost comic come to life in another spectacular package of novel and comics from Cherie Priest, author of I Am Princess X . Denise Farber has just moved back to New Orleans with her mom and step-dad. They left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and have finally returned, wagering the last of their family's money on fixing up an old, rundown house and converting it to a bed and breakfast. Nothing seems to work around the place, which doesn't seem too weird to Denise. The unexplained noises are a little more out of the ordinary, but again, nothing too unusual. But when floors collapse, deadly objects rain down, and she hears creepy voices, it's clear to Denise that something more sinister lurks hidden here.Answers may lie in an old comic book Denise finds concealed in the attic: the lost, final project of a famous artist who disappeared in the 1950s. Denise isn't budging from her new home, so she must unravel the mystery-on the pages and off-if she and her family are to survive...
"This book contains 50 interior comic illustrations in addition to the text"--Publisher.
Seventeen-year-old Denise Farber, her mom, and her stepfather are moving back to New Orleans, into the Argonne house, which is over 150 years old, and really showing its age, but which her mother plans to turn into a bed-and-breakfast--but old houses have histories, and sometimes ghosts, and a mysterious old comic book that Denise finds in the attic may hold the answer to a crime and the terrifying things that keep happening in what she thinks of as the "Agony" house.