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Peppermints in the Parlor
Peppermints in the Parlor | Barbara Brooks Wallace
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Emily Luccock is looking forward to living at Sugar Hill Hall....She remembers her aunt and uncle's grand old mansion well, with its enormous, elegant parlor, marble fireplace, and white china cups filled with hot chocolate. But this time things are different. Her aunt's once bright and lively home is now dead with silence. Evil lurks in every corner, and the dark, shadowed walls watch and whisper late at night. And no one ever speaks. Everything's changed at Sugar Hill Hall, and Emily knows something awful is happening there. What's become of Uncle Twice? Why is Aunt Twice a prisoner in her own home? Emily is desperate to uncover the truth. Time is running out, and she must find a way to save the people and home she cares so much about.
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jlhammar
jlhammar
Peppermints in the Parlor | Barbara Brooks Wallace
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I think this gothic mystery may have sparked my love for dark and unsettling reads. This is actually the back cover of the edition I would have read back in elementary school (age 8 or 9), but this is the image that really stuck with me. Those poor residents, forced to live on watery gruel, will be sent to the Remembrance Room if they dare steal a peppermint.

#OminousOctober #Candy
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Eggs Love it 🖤🤍❤️ 2y
StaceGhost Wow! I remember this book! I can‘t believe I forgot about it. Thanks for taking me to the past this morning 2y
Larkken Very Edward Gorey! I like it, but can't remember reading this - I'll have to find it :) 2y
batsy Yes, this image made me think of Gorey too! I read this as an adult and really liked it. 2y
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kplovesbooks
kplovesbooks
Peppermints in the Parlor | Barbara Brooks Wallace
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These look so interesting!! I hadn't heard of them before! Anyone here read them?
#peppermint
#wishesandblessings
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@Eggs

EvieBee Oh wow! I own the one on the left. 3y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Cool covers!! ❤️🤍 3y
Eggs How cute❣️❣️ 3y
kplovesbooks @EvieBee Oh cool! 3y
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mangokittty
mangokittty
Peppermints in the Parlor | Barbara Brooks Wallace
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I love this book! I wish I could read it over and over again with selective amnesia. It‘s not really a Christmas book, but I‘ve reread it every year around that time. If you haven‘t read it it‘s a very fun children‘s fiction book.

#feelslikethefirsttime #giveaway

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Jas16 This sounds great. Love revisiting childhood favorites. 7y
mangokittty @Jas16 especially if they‘re wacky and draw you in. 😜 7y
Tamra That sounds like fun!! 7y
mangokittty @Tamra it really is! 😊👍🏻 7y
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stacybmartin
stacybmartin
Peppermints in the Parlor | Barbara Brooks Wallace
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Homemade crafty Christmas gifts - peppermint vanilla sugar scrubs for my co-workers and my book club girls!

LeahBergen Wow! I want one, too. 😩 8y
Moray_Reads They sound wonderful 8y
Lynnsoprano Count me in with @LeahBergen 😊 8y
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shanebeth how nice! 8y
thec0zy They look so cute 😍 8y
Bookworm54 Oooooo 😍 8y
Godmotherx5 Lovely! 8y
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Bradleygirl
Bradleygirl
Peppermints in the Parlor | Barbara Brooks Wallace
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It's not easy to remember books read *in* school, but these came back to me. I LOVED this one by Barbara Wallace, probably the first Gothic style mystery I ever touched. Old people and mean caretakers and young waifs! So Edward Gorey but less grim. :)
#readinschool #photoadaynov16
#readitinschool

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