The Dollhouse: A Ghost Story by Charis CotterMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
4 out of 5 stars - If you ask me, I'll tell you to read it.
Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Random House Canada, Tundra Books for this Advanced Reader Copy.
Alice and her mom are heading to some small town where Alice's mom will be a live-in nurse to a rich elderly lady. While there, she wakes up to a young girl nicknamed Fizz resting in her bed when she wakes up. When Alice wakes up seeing Fizz, she has been transported to another time or place. Alice is convinced Fizz is a ghost. Fizz is convinced that Alice is the ghost.
In Fizz's world, there's a dollhouse that her mother has been slowly adding new items to. Alice notices that the dollhouse is an exact replica of the house she and her mother are staying in (and also Fizz's house). Alice finds the dollhouse in her own world behind a locked door in the attic. What she notices in both worlds is that the dolls appear to be replicas of the people in Fizz's world, with the addition of an Alice doll.
While I didn't find this book at all creepy as described, I was intrigued by the story and wanted to know the outcome of the mystery. Who was the ghost? Was the dollhouse magic? How did other characters in the story tie in? I think this would be a great story for a middle grade student who likes mysteries and magic.
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