![]() Everything’s perfect at first: Amy has fewer responsibilities, Aunt Clare’s always baking, and the two even uncover a beautifully intricate dollhouse. After yet another argument, she’s thrilled when her parents let her stay indefinitely with her Aunt Clare. ![]() In it, Amy, on the cusp of turning thirteen, struggles with taking care of her sister, Louann, who happens to have a mental disability. It was later reissued in 1995 under the Apple Chillers banner, a collection of classic Apple Paperbacks with a macabre bent. Her most famous book, The Dollhouse Murders, was first published in 1983 by Holiday House before being picked up by Scholastic for its Apple Paperbacks line. Wright found a calling and her tales of the supernatural left readers spellbound. While her picture books often packaged sunny stories about animals behind bright covers, many of her works for older children fell under a common theme that’s apparent just from looking at many of her titles: Christina’s Ghost, Ghosts Beneath Our Feet, Ghost in the Window, The Ghost of Popcorn Hill. ![]() And there’s a stark difference between these two literary worlds. Betty Ren Wright initially began publishing picture books in the 1950s, but achieved widespread acclaim for her string of middle grade books starting in the 1980s. ![]()
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