Sweet Miss Honeywell's Revenge: A Ghost Story

by Kathryn Reiss

Book Overview

Zibby Thorne doesn't know what possessed her to buy an antique dollhouse--she doesn't even like dolls. But when her friends and family start having bizarre accidents clearly connected to the dollhouse, she can't ignore the menacing structure any longer.

Zibby is sure that one particularly creepy doll in a gray dress is somehow responsible for the trouble. She discovers the doll is controlled by the spirit of sweet Miss Honeywell, a vengeful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152054715
• ISBN13: 9780152054717
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 435 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8

Customer Reviews

Thats Sweet Miss Honeywell to You.

I've had this book for a year now and never had an interest to read it until I ran out of books. Boy was I missing out. Sweet Miss Honeywell's Revenge deserves an A+. I couldn't but the book down. Every word, Every Sentence, Every Chapter gives out new information about the mystery surrounding Zibby and her four friends. When an unlikely ghost arrives Zibby has to pull out all her detective skills and will. She battles raging ghosts. Some good and some bad. And to think that it all started with a little girl named Primrose along with her governess Miss Honeywell. By the way, thats Sweet Miss Honeywell to you! ;)

Sweet Miss Honeywell's Revenge

Sweet Miss Honeywell's Revenge By Kathryn Reiss "Jude was standing rigid, staring at the corner by the desk. Zibby stared, too. The dollhouse stood intact, unburnt, complete as before." Poor Zibby, when she unwillingly buys a mysterious dollhouse, everything seems to go haywire. The dollhouse doesn't seem to want to leave, even after she burns it to the ground. From dreams of fires, to a mystery of ghosts, each striving for something different, Zibby must get these ghosts to move on before Miss Honeywell takes over her mom! Luckily, Zibby has help from her new friends and family to complete this feat. I thought that this was a great book, and definitely worth buying. I thought it was nice how unlikely friendships form and combine to ultimately solve their ghost problems. It was an interesting ending, and I probably wouldn't have thought of it. The book was long enough to keep you occupied for at least a little while. The story had a light and mysterious ghost story with it's own surprises, and a unique style. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who likes to read mystery or ghost stories.

Sweet Miss Honeywell's Revenge

Zibby has been wanting a new pair of rollerblades for a long time. She's saved up her money and can finally get them. But when she goes to buy them something else forces her to instead buy a dollhouse that she does not want. After she gets the house wierd things start to happen. Anything that she plays out in the dollhouse happens in real life but with a bad twist to it. When people start to get hurt, Zibby finds the woman who sold the dollhouse to her. As it turns out the dollhouse is haunted by a ghost of Miss Honeywell. She was a mean old lady who was a governess. The day after Zibby talks to the woman she finds out that she has died. Thats when Zibby starts to hear voices in her head and have nightmares. She soon figures out that this means Miss Honeywell is talking to her. Miss Honeywell becomes hungry for power and wants to take over a body. Zibbys mom, Nell, is getting married to a man named Ned in a couple of days. Miss Honeywells plan is to take over Nells body and finally fulfill her dreams of becoming a bride. The worst thing is, Zibby is the one in charge of killing her own mother. Against her will, and with her powers Miss Honeywell can make Zibby do anything she wants her to. This story is very exiting. To find out what happens, read Sweet Miss Honeywell's revenge.

A great mystery

When her birthday comes around, all 12 year old Zibby wants are a pair of rollerblades, but she is stuck at a miniature convention with her mom and aunt and cousin. She starts to wander and meets a woman in a gray dress. She leads Zibby over to a table where there is a beautiful dollhouse. All of sudden she wants that that. Although, when she takes it over to her aunt's car she doesn't want it. She doesn't even recall buying it. Soon several bizarre "accidents" start to happen. Zibby and her friends soon discover that it is actually haunted! As the story unfolds, more and more strange things happen; dolls becoming pocessed and ghosts inside people's heads. The reader will be captivated from beginning to end!!! That's SWEET Miss Honeywell to you. "Young ladies should be obiedent."

Super ghost story/mystery

This is a frightening story that unfolds quickly. The main character is Zibby, a 12-year-old girl. Zibby gets help from several of her friends, as she discovers more and more about her haunted antique doll house. I liked the fact that the kids asked hard questions about the weird things that were happening to them. Doll-sized ghosts, people-sized ghosts, possession, smoke, fire, lightening. The girls had to figure out how all the crazy things happening around the doll house fit together before somebody died. The best part was the fact that they didn't do anything stupid; so not only were they brave, they were also intelligent. They had to be to defeat SWEET Miss Honeywell.