num_pages: 256
description: A family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad in this Edgar Award–winning book from Virginia Hamilton.The house held secrets, Thomas knew, even before he first saw it looming gray and massive on its ledge of rock. It had a century-old legend—two fugitive slaves had been killed by bounty hunters after leaving its passageways, and Dies Drear himself, the abolitionist who had made the house into a station on the Underground Railroad, had been murdered there. The ghosts of the three were said to walk its rooms…
language: English
title: The House of Dies Drear
titlecomplete: The House of Dies Drear (Dies Drear Chronicles, #1)
characters: Thomas Small, Pesty Darrow
genres: Classics, Historical, Mystery, Childrens, African American, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 3536
places: Ohio
series: Dies Drear Chronicles
awards: awardedAt: -31507200000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Juvenile, awardedAt: 28800000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Aladdin