Does anyone know the name of this book? it's a young adult book?

Question

it's about a family that are living in a house that used to be a church and there is a cemetery in the woods with a mansion and a lake near it...there's 2 girls and the younger one keeps being lured to the cemetery by a ghost who's a little girl. turns out the little girl used to live in the mansion and drowned in the lake and has been luring kids into the lake to drown them since then...I probably read this book in between 4th and 6th grade does any one know the name of it?

Answer 1

It is Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hawn. I read it about six or seven years ago. The instant I read your summary I recognized it, but it took an Amazon search to get it exactly right.

From School Library Journal
Grade 4-7 Ghost story fans have a spooky treat in store with Hahn's eerie new novel. Molly, the 12-year-old narrator, and her brother Michael dislike their bratty 5-year-old stepsister Heather and resent the family move to an isolated converted church in the country. The adjourning graveyard frightens Molly, but Heather seems drawn to it. Molly discovers that the ghost of a child (Helen) who died in a fire a century ago wants to lure Heather to her doom. Molly determines to save her stepsister. In so doing, she learns that Heather's strange behavior stems from her feelings of guilt at having accidentally caused her mother's death by playing near a stove and starting a fire. Eventually, Molly wrests Heather from Helen's arms as the ghost attempts to drown them. The girls discover the skeletons of Helen's parents, and their burial finally puts to rest Helen's spirit. This is a powerful, convincing, and frightening tale. The details of everyday life quickly give way to terror. The pace never slackens. Characterization is strong, and descriptive passages set a mood of suspense. There should be a heavy demand from readers who are not "faint at heart." Judy Greenfield, Rye Free Reading Room, N.Y.
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