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The Baby-Sitters Club #9: The Ghost at dawn's House

5 star:		(12)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
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ISBN 0590435086 - Martin's The Baby-Sitters Club series as a whole is great reading and The Ghost at Dawn's House misses the 5 star mark by mere sentences.

Maybe it's just her imagination. After all, there's stormy weather and scary stories and they DO live in an old house... so maybe Dawn's not really hearing noises behind her wall - but she thinks she is, and sets out to find the secret passage that she's sure is there. When she finds it, the mystery just begins. What, or who, is making those noises? Is her house really haunted? If so, who's haunting it and why?

In the meantime, the BSC is dealing with their feelings about the Perkinses, who now live in Kristy's old house, and Nicky Pike is feeling left out because the other Pike boys don't want to play with him, so he finds a special place to call his own and takes to disappearing on his sitters!

The ending was incomplete, to me, leaving too much unanswered. Unfortunately, if I go into it, I'll give away too much! I do hope Martin revisits Dawn's ghost and her secret passage, if only to clean up the unfinished threads of this book. Even so, BSC fans will enjoy the story, as always!

- AnnaLovesBooks

Dawn is 12 years old. She moved to Stoneybrook, Conneticut from California. Her mom just got divorced, that is why they moved, to start over, and her grand parents live there. She meets a new friend named MaryAnne Spier. She hears a lot of creeking and moaning. She discovers a hidden passage in her bedroom!
This is a good book to read if you like page turning mystery's. Once you start this book you cant put it down until you finish it. This is a book for everyone, expecially if you are a babysitter. It gives you a lot of good tips for your jobs. It has battles in friendship. Alot of the things that happen to us in our everyday lives is in this book. I hope you enjoy this book. I sure did!

Dawn has always thought there was a secret passage hidden in her house. But she never thought there was a ghost...until now. All kinds of creepy things go whenever Dawn's at home. There are even spooky noises behind her bedroom wall!

Dawn is sure there's a ghost in her house. And so are the other BSC Members. But they are so busy with their baby sitting jobs that they hardly have time for a ghost hunt. Will Dawn and her friends solve the spooky mystery or will Dawn have to share her house...with a ghost?

Dawn's house is really old. Old enough to have a secret passage! She actully does find a secret passage. It leadS from her room to the barn. Then she hears odd noises coming from the secret passage, and she sees things, like a nickel in the passage. Then she goes back, and it gone! Is it a ghost?

I read this book many years ago when I was about Dawn's age. Dawn is one of my favorite characters, and this book is one of the best in the whole series. It is suspenseful, and if you like haunted house stories in general/or mystery novels, you will like this one. If you like this book, you will probably like Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls, as it is also very suspenseful and has an unexpected ending. Those two books will get you into reading mysteries and thrillers if you aren't already. I still have the book, which is being saved for my own kids to read someday.

What a cool mystery!I just love it!!It's so interesting.If you like mysterys,I highly reccomend this book.Keep it up!

I gave this book only a four-star rating because there were some parts that were slow and slightly boring. But other than that, this book is great for mystery lovers and/or BSC fans.

This book is a really good book because it is exciting and spooky. If I had to pick a book to take on a trip to keep me excited and quiet I would choose this book Ghost At Dawns House because it is so fun and exciting and you wont stop reading its once you get it.
So please take a look at this book because it is really really good. All of the babysitting club books are really good but this on is the best.

I love that book. At the end they have a party. That's weird. Coins, ice- cream cone. Mallory's brother is the one who had that hiding place to hide from his other ones.Dawn,( My favorite character)finds a book that says,'StoneyBrooke' and they belive that they never seen Jared again. And, Dawn says she've been hearing weired ghost sounds.

Dawn is always one of my favorite character out of two. I wonder, at the first time I read this book, Who is the ghost that's hunting Dawn's secret passage? If I was Dawn, I'll be scared to death and wanna change my room with mom.
Dawn had loved ghost, and ghost, and ghost, but well, did she love it when I happen to her. Every time I reread one part, I reread the next part until I reread the whole book and wanna reread more and more like Dawn, wanting to reread her story of ghosts.