Maze Stone

by Eileen Dunlop

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0698205871
• ISBN13: 9780698205871
• Release Date: August 1983
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Age Range: 11 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 6 and higher

Customer Reviews

Mystery, ancient magic, loneliness, loosing a loved one.

The Maze Stone has been a favourite book of mine since I was quite young. It is a memerable story, one that no person can ever forget, and which will take the imagination to different levels. Fanny is a a girl who has been heartbroken by the recent loss of her grandmother, who has raised her since her mothers death. She is to now live with her father, step-mother, and step-sister Heather in a new housing estate. Because of her sadness and unfamiliarity of her surroundings, Fanny withdraws into herself, rejecting her new family, and spends most of her time alone on top of the big hill that shadows their house. It is a mysterious hill that contains the ruins of an ancient stone circle. Her new house was once part of of much bigger house that contained a mystery that was lost through the ages, until now. A young man dissapeared in that house many years ago, as Fanny soon found out at a display at the local library. And it was uncanny how similar his picture looked to the new English teacher at school that Heather had a crush on. After finding a strange round stone with a maze design on while digging in the garden, Fanny decides, for some strange reason, to hide it away in her room. But during the next few weeks the design seems to pop up everywhere; on a stone on top of the hill, on one of the old stones in her fireplace, and even on a pendant worn by the strange new English teacher. The book becomes more and more exciting with every new mystery that Fanny uncovers, and the ending is by no means predictable with Fanny and Heather facing off with the most evil beings imaginable, and finally forgetting their differences and becoming true sisters. I would recommend this book to any child or teenager that has an imagination that likes to wander, or who has had hardships moving to a new area. Gemma Smith, Wichita Kansas, Mizogg@aol.com