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Content levels
ViolenceMild
Sexual contentNone
LanguageNone
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Synopsis
Thirteen-year old Dodie and her new stepsister Anne gradually become friends as they investigate sounds of footsteps which may be those of two sisters drowned in a nearby marsh nearly forty years earlier.
Is Footsteps on the Stairs appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 10 and up.
Two stepsisters investigate ghostly footsteps possibly belonging to two girls who drowned decades earlier. The supernatural mystery involves child death in the past but is handled with middle-grade appropriate restraint.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, no sexual content, and clean language. Content notes include death, death of child, and grief.
Who'll love this
Readers will enjoy the spooky mystery and the realistic friendship that develops between two girls forced together by their parents' marriage.
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Ghost StoryMysteryParanormalHistorical Mystery