wait till helen comes by mary downing hahn

Simmons privately tells Molly that his sister believed a cousin of the Simmons family was murdered by Helen's ghost. Simmons, the caretaker who cares for the graveyard, tells the siblings the same story about the drowned children. A librarian tells them three other children have drowned in the same pond since Helen's death. Unfortunately, she fell into a pond outside the house, where she drowned. Helen was in the same fire, but she managed to escape.

However, they find out that Helen really did live about 100 years ago, and that her mother and stepfather died in a house fire. He wants to research local history in order to prove that Helen never existed. Instead, they think she has an overactive imagination and is just overreacting to the graveyard located near the house. They will neither listen to her nor believe her. Molly tries talking to her mother and stepfather about Helen. When Heather realizes they're trying to find proof of Helen's existence, she gets them in trouble by telling her father they're spying on her. Molly would show him clues pointing to Helen's existence, such as proof that Heather sneaks out of the house in the middle of the night and go to the graveyard. Molly and Michael also argue about Helen's existence. While everyone was out one day, Helen comes to the house and destroys all of the stuff belonging to Molly's side of the stepfamily. She tells them Helen will come after them and their mother. Heather also starts threatening her stepbrother and stepsister. Heather starts to lie even more about her stepbrother and stepsister, which causes their parents to take sides and to fight more often. Soon, things become very tense for the entire family. Molly is the only person to discover Heather's new friend. As sign of friendship, the ghost gives Heather the locket Helen wore while she was alive. She tells Heather that she, Helen, is the only one who will ever love and accept her, no matter what Heather does. Helen quickly realizes Heather is just as lonely and miserable as she. Both of them lost immediate family members to those fires.

Helen and Heather are the same age, seven-years-old. The graveyard is haunted by a lonely ghost named Helen Harper.

Moving into their new home only makes their problems worse. Heather hates her stepfamily and causes problems, hoping it will cause Dave and Jean to divorce. Heather's father, Dave, married Molly and Michael's mother, Jean. The previous owners converted it into a house. The house was originally a church, so it still has a graveyard located out back. The book begins with a stepfamily moving into a new house located in the country. 'Wait Till Helen Comes' is a ghost story.

Wait till helen comes by mary downing hahn