num_pages: 344
description: For as long as the Vickery twins can remember theyve only ever been able to leave the house together once a year on Halloween. The rest of the year Lee and his mother serve Memory while Felix and his father assist Death. This is the Agreement.But one Halloween Gretchen Whipple smashes her way into their lives. Her bargain is simple: If the twins help her solve the murder of local girl Essie Hasting shell help them break the Agreement. The more the three investigate however the more they realize that somethings gone terribly wrong in their town. Death is on the loose and if history repeats itself Essies might not be the last murder in Poplar Wood.Simultaneously heartwarming and delightfully spooky The House in Poplar Wood is the story about a boys desire to be free a girls desire to make a difference and a familys desire to be together again.
language: English
title: The House in Poplar Wood
publisher: Chronicle Books