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All the Lovely Bad Ones
Travis and his sister, Corey, can’t resist a good trick—so when they learn that their grandmother’s sleepy Vermont inn has a history of ghost sightings, they decide to do a little haunting” of their own. Scaring the guests proves to be great fun, and before long, the inn is filled with tourists and ghost hunters eager for a glimpse of the supernatural.But Travis and Corey...more
Hardcover, 192 pages
Published
March 18th 2008
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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All the Lovely Bad Ones, by author Mary Downing Hahn, is yet another horrifyingly spooky young readers ghost story by an ageless wonder. This time MDH delivers a spine-chilling tale about siblings Travis and Corey who are visiting their grandma's inn for the summer. When they decide to play a terrifying trick on her guests, they inadvertently stir up a whole barrel of trouble, ya hear? Before they know it they're caught up in a firestorm of bitter hickish motel cooks, psychedelic pot-smoking ...more
Has some genuinely spooky moments, with a believably evil set of baddies, but my enjoyment was hampered by a couple of things: the underdeveloped main characters and the inconsistency of ghosts' actions with the conventions of ghosthood.
I need more of a past for Travis and Corey than "They're pranksters, the little rascals!" I need to know why in three months, in dire circumstances, there is never any mention of their parents -- wanting their parents with them, resenting th...more
I need more of a past for Travis and Corey than "They're pranksters, the little rascals!" I need to know why in three months, in dire circumstances, there is never any mention of their parents -- wanting their parents with them, resenting th...more
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preteens, anyone who reads ghost stories
The book itself appealed to me from the title, from a poem / warning to children. This thin book is something I hope will appeal to the non-reading junior members of the family, and, being one of those who reads everything, once it was in my hand I had to read it through.
The story starts with 2 children who are right away identified as "bad" - Travis and Corey were into so much mischief that summer camp rejected them, and the only choices left were summer school or spendi...more
The story starts with 2 children who are right away identified as "bad" - Travis and Corey were into so much mischief that summer camp rejected them, and the only choices left were summer school or spendi...more
This is another book that Ashley picked up at the book fair. I don't think I'm a helicopter parent, but I definitely like to know what my kids are reading so I can help to shape their choices a little better. This book is SCARY in parts! I didn't feel it was as well-written as "The Garden of Eve," but the story is not predictable and has a good (good as interesting and well-constructed) plot. I think that the main characters, a brother and sister who are real troublemakers, learn an i...more
I choose this book,because i like to read books about ghost.This book is a fiction book.The lovely bad ones take place at the fox inn motle in Vermount.There are two main character's in this book,there names are Travis who is 13 and Cory who is 12.They are brother and sister. This book is about two kids who go and stay with there grandma for the summer. There gradma owneds the fox Inn in vermount.The two kids found out that the motle is hunted from this book they found in the Fox Inn libery. Cor...more
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My book that i read was "All the Lovely Bad ones" this book was a scary book i really enjoyed it.
The beginning,Corey and Travis get kicked out of the camp there at,so there mom sends them too the inn,where there grandma is the owner of that hotel. they are sent there for the hole summer. they meet acouple at the inn and they are ghost hunters. And Corey and Travis start playing of jokes on all the people there so reporters can go and interview them so they can become famous. wel...more
The beginning,Corey and Travis get kicked out of the camp there at,so there mom sends them too the inn,where there grandma is the owner of that hotel. they are sent there for the hole summer. they meet acouple at the inn and they are ghost hunters. And Corey and Travis start playing of jokes on all the people there so reporters can go and interview them so they can become famous. wel...more
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The title of this book comes from the dedication to James Whitcomb Riley’s poem “Little Orphant Annie”, a cautionary rhyme for troublesome children, and this book is full of troublesome children. Travis and his sister Corey played so many pranks at summer camp that they weren’t allowed back, so they are spending the summer at their grandmother’s supposedly “haunted” inn. They decide to stage some ghost sightings, and soon have tourists flocking to the quiet inn. Hahn’s ghost seekers are a colorf...more
If they like Nancy Drew type books, or ghost stories and mysteries, this one will interest your mid to upper elementary readers. Two siblings spend the summer with their Grandmother at her recently purchased B&B. When they hear rumors that the place was haunted, and learn that being haunted helps lure visitors to the remote inn, the children decide to help their Granma's bottom line by spooking things up a bit. The trouble is, their pretending awakens the real ghosts and then the children have t...more
Travis and Corey are spending the summer at the grandmother's isolated Vermont inn--an excellent alternative to the summer camp they got banned from after last summer's pranks and mischief. Grandmother's inn isn't doing too well, though, since the ghostly activity has ceased, as people don't come so far out of their way to visit an un-haunted inn. The siblings vow to turn things around for their grandmother, and stage a haunting to convince the current guests that the inn still has some secret...more
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Corey and Travis are excited to spend the summer at Fox Hollow, their grandmother's old inn. They are looking forward to a summer of leisure, free of responsibilities and stupid summer camp activities. As an added bonus, Fox Hollow is rumored to be haunted. Corey and Travis plan to take advantage of the inn's supernatural status by playing some paranormal pranks on the other inn guests. Their plans go awry, though, when their high jinks awaken some real ghosts. They come to find out that Fo...more
This is one of my favorite ghost stories. What it's about is, two kids go to their grandma's house and she owns a inn. It is supposed to be haunted but nothing happens for the the first few days they are there. So they decide to play a few pranks, because they are major trouble makers. So Corey dresses up like a ghost and does ghostly stuff. But one night stuff starts to happen that is very unusual. Like they get pinched and slapped but no one is there. So the next morning they hear to people...more
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This is a very exciting book about Corey and Travis' going to their grandmothers 'Vermont Inn', and while back in their time there was ghost sightings but they've been there way back then, they fell asleep. Corey and Travis stayed there for the summer, and both of them were pranksters. The pranks woke the ghosts up. And so, The grandmother and everybody else in the hotel didn't believe them, because, Corey and Travis are the only ones who can see them. There is quite a few ghosts, but there's o...more
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A ghost story, but not a particularly scary story, even for a children's book. Ghosts just aren't as scary when the protagonist can sit on the porch and have a conversation with them. It was more sad than scary, with the stories about the poor farm. The only real nervous moments were of a much more mundane nature, like children being caught somewhere they shouldn't be, doing something they shouldn't (lots of that). The final confrontation with Miss Ada was the only truly creepy part. However, ...more
I was recommended this book by my mom, who had read it to vet it for her fourth grade class. She had told me it was scary so I expected a much older, scarier type of story. It's been years since I read a Goosebumps book, but I would assume that this story was on par with them.
Two kids, staying with their grandmother for the summer at her inn in Vermont, stir up spirits of the house's former residents. It is up to the childrent to put the spirits to rest and uncover the truth behind t...more
Two kids, staying with their grandmother for the summer at her inn in Vermont, stir up spirits of the house's former residents. It is up to the childrent to put the spirits to rest and uncover the truth behind t...more
This was a really good book. The book all the lovely bad ones is about these kids who are rascals and pretend that they are a ghost that has said to been seen on their grandmother's property (she owned an inn) that they are staying in for the summer. There was proved to be ghosts. But the kids didn't think that.
So they acted like the ghosts. A night or two later there were weird things going on in the inn. There was pinching and slapping. Then one day the kids bedrooms were messed u...more
So they acted like the ghosts. A night or two later there were weird things going on in the inn. There was pinching and slapping. Then one day the kids bedrooms were messed u...more
So far i have been reading the book with my class and it is good i think it is just right for everybody to read the first few pages are kinds boring then it does get wayyy better i recomnded it for people that like mysteries and scary bookks and stuff! =~)
I don't have an ingrained dislike of ghost stories, and I'm open to the possibility that good ones for children exist. Mary Downing Hahn's latest attemp falls short of such a distinction. The plot is predicatble and at the same time, not nearly fleshed out enough. Events occur rapidly, without enough build up to create any actual feeling of fear, and wrap up way too neatly. The narrator is not believable as a thirteen year old boy, and Corey, who could have been a strong and interesting char...more
6-8th grade
This book is set up as a chapter book for sure. There are no illustrations other than the cover page to speak of. The text is smaller and set in multiple short paragraph on every page. The language used is easy to understand and with the exception of a few hard last names should be easily read by a older reader. The front cover illustration is, well, creepy. It sends a shiver down my spine everytime I look at it. This book would appeal to student who enjoy a good scar...more
This book is set up as a chapter book for sure. There are no illustrations other than the cover page to speak of. The text is smaller and set in multiple short paragraph on every page. The language used is easy to understand and with the exception of a few hard last names should be easily read by a older reader. The front cover illustration is, well, creepy. It sends a shiver down my spine everytime I look at it. This book would appeal to student who enjoy a good scar...more
I just finished an interesting book called All The Lovely bad Ones by Mary Hahn. All The Lovely Bad Ones place in the present in Vermont. The main characters are Travis and Corey. When Travis and Corey go to there grandmothers Inn for the summer they find that the inn used to be haunted. Corey dresses up as a ghost as a prank but on accident she awakens a unknown spirit that wreaks havoc on the Inn. This story is basicaly a long ghost story this makes the book hard to put down. It makes th...more
Mischief-making siblings Travis & Corey visit their grandmother's inn in Vermont after their pranks get them kicked out of summer camp. When the pair hear rumors that the inn is haunted, they decide to stage an apparition (partly to increase business for Granny, and partly for their own amusement). Their nightly shenanigans soon attract many curious guests, but also wake up the spirits that had been slumbering peacefully for many years. The real ghosts wreak more havoc than the living, especi...more
Loved this book - esp for middle schoolers - not as scary as Deep And Dangerous - yet was scary and involved the characters with the ghosts even more.
A story about a bro and sis that are bad LOL like me - but not really - and they get into this situation at a remote farm house where they are bad and "OOPS" it hmmm bites them in - no just comes back to haunt them. I loved how Hahn gets the ghosts and the characters involved with each other. I actually started reading it last...more
A story about a bro and sis that are bad LOL like me - but not really - and they get into this situation at a remote farm house where they are bad and "OOPS" it hmmm bites them in - no just comes back to haunt them. I loved how Hahn gets the ghosts and the characters involved with each other. I actually started reading it last...more
I enjoyed this ghost story, and it genuinely creeped me out. It could help that I was reading it very late at night. I could not put this book down and finished it in one long session. It was, however, a quick read because I was invested in all of the characters. Travis and Corey were great, mischevious children, and I liked Seth, Caleb and Ira. Caleb was definitely the more rational one of the "bad ones" and seemed to keep Seth a little under control.
Anyone that likes gho...more
Anyone that likes gho...more
A 2009-2010 Sunshine State Book for grades 6-8.
Mary Downing Hahn made a name for herself in classroom last school year when she won many of my students over with her prior book, Deep and Dark and Dangerous. In "All the Lovely Bad Ones," I thought Hahn once again wrote a fantastic ghost story that will really capture the attention of readers. It was suspenseful and mysterious. But to me, this wasn't just a ghost story. It also revealed so much truth about the adverse effects...more
Mary Downing Hahn made a name for herself in classroom last school year when she won many of my students over with her prior book, Deep and Dark and Dangerous. In "All the Lovely Bad Ones," I thought Hahn once again wrote a fantastic ghost story that will really capture the attention of readers. It was suspenseful and mysterious. But to me, this wasn't just a ghost story. It also revealed so much truth about the adverse effects...more
As far as ghost stories go...I haven't read a good one in a long time. Actually, I don't think I've read one since I was a kid and wanted to be scared...thank you R.L. Stine. Now that I'm a high school/elementary librarian, I have challenged myself to read books that have been nominated for my state's book award, the Sequoyah Award. A lot of students at the elementary predicted that All the Lovely Bad Ones would win the award and so I decided I needed to read it. It was a great read. Great ...more
Travis and his sister, Corey, can't resist a good trick. When they learn that their grandmother's quiet Vermont inn, where they're spending the summer, has a history of ghost sightings, they decide to do a little "haunting" of their own. Before long, their supernatural pranks have tourists flocking to the inn, and business booms. But Travis and Corey soon find out that they aren't the only ghosts at Fox Hill Inn. Their thoughtless games have awakened something dangerous, something that...more
I thought it was a good book overall, but not necessarily the best. If there were 1/2 stars, I would give this book a 3.5 rating. It wasn't necessarily a 4, but I felt generous. My best friend recommended this book to me, and so I read it. I have read many ghost stories, but this one didn't seem to really stand out to me and grab my attention. It was a "forgettable" story. I recommend it to middle-schoolers or maybe slightly younger. However, I feel that parents may need to be present ...more
Not very well fleshed out, I thought the story dragged, and it wasn't until I was almost half way through, that I was truly interested in what happened next. The ghost story part wasn't very scary - the truly chilling bit was how all the lovely bad ones had been treated before their death - that did rise my ire, and made me want to see justice come to light at the end. I did think even that was exaggerated though, and that a similar effect could have been obtained with much less cheap tricks.
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