| World War, 1914–1918-United States-Fiction. Title: One for sorrow : a ghost story / Mary Downing Hahn.ĭescription: Boston New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, | Summary: When unlikeable Elsie dies in the influenza pandemic of 1918, she comes back to haunt Annie to make sure she’ll be Annie’s best-and only-friend soon-Provided by publisher. The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows: Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2017.įor information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016.Ĭover photographs © 2017 by Richard Nixon/Trevillion Images (cemetery) Larry Rostant (girl) But when Elsie's ghost awakens, she vows vengeance against those who hurt her - and strives to make Annie her best friend, by any means necessary. As the Spanish Influenza reaches Mount Pleasant, Annie and the girls witness many funerals and deaths - even Elsie's. Rosie and the others (and Annie later joins in) frequently tease and bully Elsie. As time passes, Annie becomes friends with Rosie and some of the other girls, and Elsie becomes jealous about begins to stalk Annie outside her house.
We immediately sense that Elsie's home life is not ideal - to where she would rather stay at a friend's house than go home. When Elsie follows Annie home, Elsie confides in that Annie is lucky that she has such a nice family and home.
Annie attends the Pearce Academy for Girls, and is quickly sought after by a lonely German girl, Elsie Schnider. Annie and her family have just moved to the new town of Mount Pleasant. The story is about a young girl named Annie Browne. One for Sorrow is a suspenseful story set during 1917-1918, so just right at the end of World War 1 and the outbreak of the Spanish Influenza pandemic.
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