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A review by westernskynaida
Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
4.0
So some context before I start the review. It’s 2025 and I’m 33 at the time of writing this review. When I was in elementary school (sometime between 1st and 5th grade), our librarian read to us this book. As I got older, I forgot the name of this book, this was definitely a formative book in my little brain years and I believe is actually the book that started my itch for horror books
This book is written in the perspective of a boy who has to spend the summer with his great aunt because his parents are going to France for work. Within the first couple of days, he meets a ghostly boy who looks exactly like him and they switch places
Even for a middle grade book, the way it’s written for the anxiety of depersonalization and possibly forgetting the core of your person is a terrifying idea - it’s no wonder it stuck with me for decades
I highly recommend this book - whether you read it to your younglings or read it when you’re older
This book is written in the perspective of a boy who has to spend the summer with his great aunt because his parents are going to France for work. Within the first couple of days, he meets a ghostly boy who looks exactly like him and they switch places
Even for a middle grade book, the way it’s written for the anxiety of depersonalization and possibly forgetting the core of your person is a terrifying idea - it’s no wonder it stuck with me for decades
I highly recommend this book - whether you read it to your younglings or read it when you’re older