Behind the Attic Wall
Edition: First Avon Camelot printing
Publisher: Avon Camelot
Published: /1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780380698431
Copyright date: 1983
First sentence: The man waiting at the station when she first stepped off the train was the tallest person she had ever seen.
Description: At twelve, Maggie had been thrown out of more boarding schools than she cared to remember. "Impossible to handle," they said—nasty, mean, disobedient, rebellious, thieving—anything they could say to explain why she must be removed from the school.

Maggie was thin and pale, with shabby clothes and stringy hair, when she arrived at her new home. "It was a mistake to bring her here," said Maggie's great-aunts, whose huge stone house looked like another boarding school—or a prison. But they took her in anyway. After all, aside from Uncle Morris, they were Maggie's only living relatives.

But from behind the closet door in the great and gloomy house, Maggie hears the faint whisperings, the beckoning voices. And in the forbidding house of her ancestors, Maggie finds magic ... the kind that lets her, for the first time, love and be loved.