Books with author Patricia Papps

A spine-chilling tale of terror. Emily was a hateful, selfish, strong-willed little girl who died when she was twelve years old. But that was a long time ago. Jane was nine years old, and an orphan. When her grandmother (Emily's mother) invited Jane and her young aunt Louisa to spend the summer at Grandmother's large, dark mansion in Massachusetts, neither girl had any idea of what lay in store for her. It was Jane who first sensed Emily's presence. Then one day, Jane looked into the reflecting ball in the garden -- and the face that looked back at her was not her own. What did the long-dead Emily want of her?

The girl standing on the swaying deck of the Mayflower in November, 1620, could not share her father's enthusiasm for the life ahead. Fourteen years old, intelligent and outspoken, Constance Hopkins does not hide her apprehension about the life to come. In a journal given to her by her stepmother, she records her observations and feelings from the first dreadful winter when sickness killed half of the settlers to the time of her marriage at twenty. Constance relates the important events as well as the petty detail of daily living her fear and growing understanding of Indians, the first flirtations, her care of younger brothers and sisters, and her changing relationship with her stepmother. Like any girl in any age, she worries about her appearance and a lack of pretty clothes. She confide s her may questions about love and marriage.