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The House in Norham Gardens

Penelope Lively (1974)

SubgenreChildren's Fantasy
Age groupMiddle Grade 8-12
Content ratingPG
Pages (Quick Read (<250))
Setting
CSM age10
Goodreads3.85

Content levels

ViolenceNone
Sexual contentNone
LanguageNone

Trigger warnings

Grief

Heroine archetypes

Coming-of-Age Heroine

Protagonist archetypes

Time-Displaced

Synopsis

A fourteen-year-old girl uses a painted shield from New Guinea to contact various native owners of the shield during different periods of time, and when their presences threaten to materialize in the present, she offers to return the shield to them and lay the ghosts to rest.

Tags

Historical FantasyTime SlipSupernaturalLiterary Fiction