The house on the corner has been empty for two decades. The neighborhood children are sure that it's haunted and dare each other to do things like ring the doorbell, which still works, even though the power to the house has been turned off. Although not everyone would agree that the house is haunted, everyone agrees that strange things happen in and around the house on the corner. Will the new family that has just moved into the house find the stories to be true, or will they find that they are just stories based on the fact that the last family to live in the house just simply vanished? And what does the crazy old man from across the street with his dire warnings have to do with all of it? With the discovery of a cache of old weapons in the tool shed, the three children, Tom, Sam, and Ruth, are convinced that things are far from normal.
All children dream the improbable, some dream the impossible. What happens when three children have the impossible thrust upon them? Will they find that it's more than they bargained for?
Drawing from the experiences of working with children and teenagers for more than a decade, as well as raising my own three children, The House on the Corner , at 125,000 words, bursts with keen observations and humorous anecdotes on what life with children is like. This perspective makes the novel an imaginative treat for parents as well as the young adults for whom it is written.
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