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Title details for The Door by the Staircase by Katherine Marsh - Available

The Door by the Staircase

by Katherine Marsh
Laural Merlington
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Twelve-year-old Mary Hayes can't stand her orphanage. But when an attempted escape doesn't go quite as well as she'd hoped, Mary fears she'll be stuck in the Buffalo Asylum for Young Ladies forever. The very next day, a mysterious woman named Madame Z appears at the orphanage requesting to adopt Mary. The matron's all too happy to get the girl off her hands. Soon, Mary is fed a hearty meal, dressed in a clean, new nightgown and shown to a soft bed with blankets piled high. She can hardly believe she isn't dreaming! But when Mary begins to explore the strange town nearby, she learns a terrifying secret about Madame Z's identity. If Mary is not careful, her new home might just turn into a nightmare.

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  • Release date

    January 5, 2016

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781666590180
      • File size: 208954 KB
      • Duration: 07:15:19

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 750
    • Text Difficulty: 3-4

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 4, 2016
      In Edgar Award–winning Marsh’s new fantasy for children, 12-year-old orphan Mary Hayes is ecstatic when elderly and eccentric Madame Z whisks her from the horrific Buffalo Asylum for Young Ladies and immediately treats her to delicious food and a soft bed in a her wonderful home, which is within walking distance of the village of Iris, a destination for faux masters of the dark arts (illusionists, fortune tellers, and others of that ilk). The mood changes rapidly when Mary is told that her patroness is really Baba Yaga, a witch straight out of Russian folklore who feeds children and then feeds on them. Reader Merlington has a warm storyteller’s delivery for much of this ultracharming yarn, but it can quickly switch to a cackling but kind, Russian-accented voice when Madame Z is talking to Mary. When the real black magic begins, Merlington uses a cold, nasal, cruel voice for the monstrous villain who threatens to destroy Mary and the enchanted home that she had longed for her whole life. Ages 9–12. A Disney-Hyperion hardcover.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:750
  • Text Difficulty:3-4

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