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♥Sydney's book report ; Wait till Helen comes By:Mary Downing Hahn♥  Sydneys Second Page!



 **1. Plot-** This Story takes place in Holwell Maryland. This book is about these childern go to Holwell, Maryland for a summer vaction there parents set up where they are staying in a little white church. When they get there they discover that there is a graveyard in the back of the church. They know that something is goin on when Heather there evil little step sister keeps disappearing every day and they notice that she keeps goig back to the graveyard. Every time Molly and Micheal ask her where she is going she always tells them it is none of there buisness. Molly swears that she hears Heather talking to someone but whenever she trys to tell her parents or Micheal they never believe her they tell her she is just imagining things.

** 2. Setting- ** "Wait till Helen comes", takes place on a summer day in Holwell, Maryland! **3. Character's-** Molly(the teenager), Micheal(the little boy), Dave(step father), Jean(mom), Heather(there evil little step sister), and Helen(ghost that died in a fire).

**4. Conflict-** The conflict of "Wait till Helen comes", is that Molly and Micheal keep seeing Heather disappear in the graveyard Micheal thinks that Heather is just talking to herself and he doesnt believe in ghost and Molly believes that Heather is talking to some girl named Helen. One day Molly tries to tell her mom that Heather is talking to a ghost and her mother Jean tell her there is no such thing. However one day Jean, Dave, and Heather go to shop at a town called Holwell. Micheal and Molly have to tend to the house and watch after each other while they are playing in the pond behind there house they hear a racket in the house. They sound of easels hitting the floor glass breaking, they knew that someone had broken into the house while they were playing in the back yard. Molly knew that it is Helen the ghost because Heather had warned them that if they kept being mean to her that Helen would come and destroy Jean,Micheal, and Molly's room. Micheal didnt believe Molly when she told him it was Helen but when they all got back from shopping Heather looks at Molly and Micheal and said " I told you Helen would destroy your room's if you kept being mean to me".

**5. Climax-** The climax in "Wait till Helen comes", is when Molly can't find Heather so she goes and looks for her. She finds her standing at the pond with Helen (the ghost) she screams " HEATHER COME BACK HERE RIGHT NOW", Helen doesnt have any friends so she wants Heather to go in the pond so she will get her feet tangled up the the seaweed and drowned. Molly watches Heather disappear in the water and runs after Heather and jumps in the pond and starts swimming she finds that Heather has been trapped in the seaweed she pulls Heather out of the water she has to do mouth to mouth because Heather is not breathing well.

**6. Theme-** The moral of "Wait till Helen comes", is trying to tell you to treat others how you want to be treated not how other's treat you.

**7. Resloution-** At the end of the book Molly saves Heather and Helen is gone forever. Molly and Micheal never got along with Heather but Heather and Molly they all work things out. They decided that it was stupid to fight all the time so they thought that maybe lfe would eb better if they all got along! **ORANGE **