Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story

by Mary Downing Hahn

Paperback, 1995

Status

Available

Local notes

PB Hah

Barcode

933

Genres

Publication

HarperCollins (1995), 176 pages

Description

When he goes to spend the summer with his great-aunt in the family's old house, eleven-year-old Drew is drawn eighty years into the past to trade places with his great-great-uncle who is dying of diptheria.

Awards

Texas Bluebonnet Award (Nominee — 1996)
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 1997)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — Children's — 1997)
Georgia Children's Book Award (Winner — Grades 4-8 — 1996)
Utah Beehive Book Award (Nominee — Children's Fiction — 1996)
Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee — Grades 4-8 — 1995)
Mark Twain Readers Award (Winner — 1997)
Nēnē Award (Nominee — 1998, 1999, 2000)
Grand Canyon Reader Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 1997)
Virginia Readers' Choice (Winner — Elementary — 1997)
Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Nominee — Grades 4-6 — 1997)

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1994

Physical description

176 p.; 5.13 inches

User reviews

LibraryThing member pancakekiller
this book makes me so happy. and it smells nice.
LibraryThing member skstiles612
What would you do if you knew youwere so ill you were going to die and you suddenly find yourself thrown into the future? Would you willingly go back to your own time? This is waht happens to twelve year old Andrew. dying of diptheria he finfds himself transported into the future and his
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great-great- newphew Drew is transported into his time. The problem is Andrew doesn't want to switch back when he gets well. This was another wonderful mystery. It had the time travel element that added to the suspense.
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LibraryThing member TammyGant
This was a really good book. If you believe in the supernatural at all, it may make you think again about that someone in your life who suddenly started acting differently.
LibraryThing member BeatrixKiribani
Time for Andrew is a wonderful story for those of all ages. Another hit for Mary Downing Hahn.
LibraryThing member Sasha_Doll
First of all, I am going to call this story a timeslip or time travel story rather than the stated "ghost story" in the title. I don't want to spoil the story for anyone, so I won't say why. It's unclear to me why the author chooses to make a case for ghosts, however. Readers who enjoy both ghost
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and timeslip genres understand that the definition of each often can and does include the other. But this issue aside, Time for Andrew is a great favorite of mine, an absorbing, fascinating story of two boys from different times who become the strangest of friends and who help one another through time and space. This is one of Hahn's best supernatural tales--possibly her very best.

From the back cover: Aunt Blythe's house gives Andrew the creeps--full of dark rooms, creaky noises, and the sound of a woman sobbing somewhere in the shadows. Then, in the middle of the night, Andrew awakens to find a boy standing in his room...a boy who is Andrew's double, except he looks as if he's come from the grave. He wants to follow him--to a place where he will meet the spirits of long dead ancestors...a place from which Andrew might never return.
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LibraryThing member MartinP.G3
This book is about a kid who gets the creeps at his aunt's house. He meets his double in the house. His double, though, looks like he came out of a grave. He wants to follow his double into a mysterious world. The world is full of dead ancestors. He might not come back from it though. He is on a
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path to life or death.
I liked this book, but didn't really get into it. It was quite good, but when I read it, I wasn't intrested. I like reading books of action and adventure, but this was a horror. I didn't know that the theme was different. I liked it though, just some parts I didn't. I actually prefer this to people who like mystery and horror. People who don't like should still read it.
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LibraryThing member agrudzien
This summer, Drew will be spending his time at his aunt's creepy old house. It gets creepier when he realizes he looks exactly like his ancestor, Andrew, who died when he was ten. One night, Drew wakes up to odd noises in the attic and finds Andrew there - ready to change places with him in the
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hopes that his diphtheria can be cured. The only problem is, when Andrew takes Drew's place, Drew is sent back to 1910 and has to fit in until he can get back...but Andrew doesn't want to switch again. Is he stuck in a life that isn't quite his own?

I liked the idea of this story (switching with a ghost?!) but it didn't have the scare factor that most of Hahn's books do, so I was a little disappointed. I liked that the boys started to fit into each other's places the longer they stayed - and that they both took a little from each other's personalities to create two better people.
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LibraryThing member LynnMPK
Entertaining little time travel story. Starts off slow, but picks up towards the middle.

Pages

176

Rating

(82 ratings; 4.2)
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