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Double Spell

Janet Lunn

1986129 pagesabout 2–3 hours
1986
first published
  • 1986Puffin · 129 pages · ENGISBN 9780140318586
  • 2001Bt BoundISBN 9780808573043
  • 2003Tundra Books · 144 pages · ENGISBN 9780887766602
  • 2003Tandem Library · ENGISBN 9780613773409

Twins Jane and Elizabeth are twelve years old and have outgrown dolls. Nevertheless, on a cold wet spring Saturday they find themselves in an antique store, inexplicably drawn to a small, tattered old fashioned doll. Even the owner of the store seems to understand that the doll somehow belongs to the girls. Once the twins buy the doll, stranger and stranger things begin to happen, and a young girl from the past seems to be calling out to them. The search to discover the history of the little doll brings the twins terrifyingly close to the world of the supernatural as they finally solve a tantalizing mystery.

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AtmosphereWhimsical

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Written forMiddle grade
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