While staying with her elderly relative at Winterbloom, Jo tries to solve the mysteries that haunt this strange old house situated in the midst of New Hampshire woods.
In this compelling fantasy, a contemporary girl, JoEllen Briggs, full of resentment that her mother has remarried, is sent to stay with an elderly cousin, Ellen McAlpin, at her home in New Hampshire. The house is a copy of a small Scottish castle and Jo soon discovers secret of the house--her bedroom window is a window in time.
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"When her widowed mother remarries and leaves on a European honeymoon,Joellen is packed off to northern New Hampshire to stay at Winterbloom with Granty Macallan, an elderly cousin. Jo's plans call for bolting back home to Boston at the first opportunity, but when she escapes out the round attic window, . . . she discovers that it takes her back in time. There she meets several ancestors, including the first Ellen Macallan, a mysterious Scottish woman who had had Winterbloom built during the 1700s. Jo is drawn to the house and its mysteries, and in several trips through the moon window, she uncovers a secret room, its supernatural inhabitant, and Ellen Macallan's hold on both Granty and Jo. . . . Grades five to eight." (Booklist)
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