Copyright © 2015 by Jennifer McKissack
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McKissack, Jennifer, author.
Sanctuary / Jennifer McKissack. — First edition.
pages cm
Summary: After the sudden death of her aunt, Cecilia Cross is forced to return to the old mansion on a remote island off the coast of Maine, ironically named Sanctuary, the place where her father and sister died, and from which her mother was committed to an insane asylum soon after—and it is also a place of dark secrets, haunted by the ghosts of its original owners, and inhabited by her vicious uncle.
ISBN 978-0-545-58758-7 (jacketed hardcover) 1. Haunted houses—Juvenile fiction. 2. Ghost stories. 3. Murder—Juvenile fiction. 4. Uncles—Juvenile fiction. 5. Families—Maine—Juvenile fiction. 6. Secrecy—Juvenile fiction. 7. Maine—Juvenile fiction. [1. Haunted houses—Fiction. 2. Ghosts—Fiction. 3. Murder—Fiction. 4. Uncles—Fiction. 5. Family life—Maine—Fiction. 6. Secrets—Fiction. 7. Maine—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.1.M4355San 2015
[Fic]—dc23
2014046789
First edition, October 2015
Cover photos © Arcangel Images: Ayal Ardon, Maria Heyens, Xuesong Liao
Cover design by Mary Claire Cruz
e-ISBN 978-0-545-58766-2
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