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Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
When he goes to spend the summer with his great-aunt in the family's old house, eleven-year-old Drew is drawn eighty years into the past to trade places with his great-great-uncle who is dying of diphtheria.
Paperback, 176 pages
Published
June 18th 2007
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
(first published March 21st 1994)
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Time for Andrew (Mary Downing Hahn)
This was a very good ghost story. Different from the usual. Drew is sent to stay with his Great-Aunt Blythe, in an old creepy house. Drew's father explains how this house has been in the family for over a century. Soon he hears women crying & finding no one there.
His Aunt takes him into the attic to show him some of the old treasures. She shows him photos of his relatives, and is shocked to find one boy looked exactly like him, and iron...more
This was a very good ghost story. Different from the usual. Drew is sent to stay with his Great-Aunt Blythe, in an old creepy house. Drew's father explains how this house has been in the family for over a century. Soon he hears women crying & finding no one there.
His Aunt takes him into the attic to show him some of the old treasures. She shows him photos of his relatives, and is shocked to find one boy looked exactly like him, and iron...more
Another great ghost story by Mary Downing Hahn. Time for Andrew tells the story of Drew, a young boy who is spending 8 weeks in the summer with his Great-Aunt Blythe. Aunt Blythe lives in the ancestral family home with her father (Drew's great-grandfather). Drew thinks that he can feel the presence of his past relatives all around the house and after a trip to the attic (where the entry door is in his bedroom) that results in his discovery of a very old bag of marbles, he becomes mostly intr...more
"Wait Til Helen Comes" was a much better choice, by the same author. However, a student recommended this one to me, so I thought I'd give it a chance.
The book started off slow, but it picked up in pace after a bit. This is the second Hahn book I've read with time travel involved, and this one I felt pulled it off better. I liked that Drew and Andrew both actually existed simultaneously and could travel from one time to the next by stepping through the attic door. I'm also happy that Andrew survived. In her other book, The Doll in the Garden, Louisa does not survive after her doll is returned to her. Because of the bond they shared, Andrew mak...more
This is one of the many books I read to my children at night as they went to sleep. I also read this book every year to my classroom. They can't get enough of it. There are so many assignments you can get from this book from projection to summary to prediction. The book is filled with creative writing genius; personification, metaphors, similes, forshadowing, I could go on.
I discovered the book by my children who read it after the popular young adult fiction, "Wait till Hele...more
I discovered the book by my children who read it after the popular young adult fiction, "Wait till Hele...more
This is one of the many books I read to my children at night as they went to sleep. I also read this book every year to my classroom. They can't get enough of it. There are so many assignments you can get from this book from projection to summary to prediction. The book is filled with creative writing genius; personification, metaphors, similes, forshadowing, I could go on.
I discovered the book by my children who read it after the popular young adult fiction, "Wait till Hele...more
I discovered the book by my children who read it after the popular young adult fiction, "Wait till Hele...more
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Time For Andrew By: Mary Downing Hahn
This book is about a Kid named Andrew (Drew). When Drews father and mother go to pParis, France he has to stay with his Aunt Blythe. When he go's up to the attic with his aunt he finds some old family pictures and also finds sone marbles under a loose floorboard. After his aunt takes the marbles downstairs some strange things happen. One of Drews great aunts cousin (andrew) haunts the house even though he is still alive. Andrew has dipheteria and Drew t...more
This book is about a Kid named Andrew (Drew). When Drews father and mother go to pParis, France he has to stay with his Aunt Blythe. When he go's up to the attic with his aunt he finds some old family pictures and also finds sone marbles under a loose floorboard. After his aunt takes the marbles downstairs some strange things happen. One of Drews great aunts cousin (andrew) haunts the house even though he is still alive. Andrew has dipheteria and Drew t...more
I remembered reading this book as a kid and having it stuck with me so vividly that I googled the summary a few years ago, trying to figure out what the title/author was. Luckily I remembered enough that I found the book, read it and promptly felt 12 yrs all over again. I love how Drew and Andrew are so different yet so alike and how they can exist in 2 different time lines and how they help each other get over their fears and the ending will forever be one of my favorite conclusions. Definetley...more
I gave this book 4 star because, I really enjoyed this book I couldn’t put it down! Andrew and Drew switch places and because they look identical and Andrew is very sick and he is from the 1900s so in the present they have medicine. Andrew was suppose to die but he didn’t know that he was died and so Drew went back in time to live Andrew’s life which is very hard and if he doesn’t listen he gets a spanking. But to switch back Drew had to beat Andrew in marbles because Andrew does want to switch ...more
This story is about a boy named Andrew and he's sent to his great aunt Blythe for the summer. His aunt lives in this old beat up creepy looking house. The house itself hasn't been taken care of for years. but it's been in the family fo many many years. When Drew arrives at his aunts house Drew feels like he can feel all his relatives from the dead there. While he is there his aunt had Drew take a trip up the attic. while he was up there he finds a picture of his old relatives and theres a boy th...more
Christmas Eve, preparations are all finished, the family settles down to watch television. Ghost Hunters. Or whichever one is the one where the morons visit old buildings and dare ghosts to show themselves. If ghosts do exist, I don't think that douche tactics are going to provide great results.
I needed to find some way to pass the time so, going into my old bedroom, I decided to pull out one of my old favorites that I've been meaning to reread. Fittingly enough, it was this ghost st...more
I needed to find some way to pass the time so, going into my old bedroom, I decided to pull out one of my old favorites that I've been meaning to reread. Fittingly enough, it was this ghost st...more
Time for Andrew is one of my all time favorites because of it's honest simplicity. Mary Downing Hahn accurately and effectively paints a picture of past and present while keeping a pace that would incite the reader to believe everything that happens is happening at a relatively controlled pace. From this story I learned, as a writer, the importance of character development and backstory, which ties in greatly with the story and leaves a definite feeling of closure and rest upon completing the st...more
Our assistant teacher that year, a wonderful woman named Mrs. Denny, read this book to my 4th grade class many years ago. It was a wonderful novel to come into the classroom for right after lunch break and was extremely well written, thought out, and interesting. The characters were memorable and so was the story. If I still can remember it even now, it must've been worthwhile-- in fact, I even bought it to keep in my personal collection and can't wait to read it to my own kids one day.
This book is a wonderful fiction tale about growing and losing our childhood fears. It is about changing through a tease of time travel and ghosts of the past. What would you do if you had a chance to take the place of an ancestor who lived a hundred years before you? See what Andrew does and how living the life of his ancestor in a ghostly haunt a century past teaches him the confidence he needs to fight the bullies in our modern day schools.
This is more a story of time travel than a ghost story. 12-year-old Andrew is dying of diphtheria when he falls through a hole in time and finds himself in 1990 instead of his own time 1910. He trades places with his great-great-nephew Drew, who happens to be his exact double. Will Andrew die? Will Drew ever return to his own time? This is a very enjoyable story of family and growing up.
This was kind of a fun book, recommended to me by my mom (who has recently been reading a lot of books with my brother Christopher...who is 9.) It is definitely a young read, and I think it would definitely be a fun one for a young boy. It starts out a bit spooky, but after the first 3 chapters it is pretty smooth sailing :-) It kept me pretty interested and I finished in just a few days.
This story is about a boy named Drew and he hears about a man named Andrew the died from a diseas. After sometime Drew starts hearing noises and then Andrew appears. Everynight after that they would play marbles with each other. Drew started to search his backyard for his Andrew gravestone but it was never there. Then one day Drew found out something that he never suspected.
Such a great ghost-story! You get to travel through family pictures, attics in old houses, and personal ancestry to get to the characters who swap places in this book - a wonderfully believable and adventurous read, about two boys in the same family, generations apart, who swap places to save one's life, and both their lives end up dramatically improved.
I thought that it was super cool and so amazing how Drew goes back to 1901 and sees Edward who is really his great grandpa who sits in his room most of the time.
I also liked where he jumped off the tressle to save Edward from drowning even though he said that he could have saved himself.
That is what I liked about the book.
I also liked where he jumped off the tressle to save Edward from drowning even though he said that he could have saved himself.
That is what I liked about the book.
I must have read this book a dozen times when I was kid, and I was doing some cleaning in my old bedroom and found it again. The characters were wonderful, from Drew and Andrew, to Hannah and the rest of the family. The story was so engaging and continues to be so even when I read it again years later.
Love time-travel books, and this one was very satisfying, with the border between times shifting and fading in-and-out. Although it started out as genuinely creepy and scary, it wasn't really a scary book, so although it is a ghost story, it might not suit those readers who are looking for thrills and chills.
I didn't give this book a great rating, but I didn't hate it. It was a fast read and I think that a lot of kids or young adults would enjoy it. However, I don't think that it's a ghost story at all. It's really a time travel and a historical fiction novel. It wasn't profound, but it was entertaining and kept my interest all the way through until the end.
When I read The Outsiders, I had a sad and depressing feeling after I read it. After I read Time For Andrew, I had the exact same feeling. I couldn't get over the depressing feeling until after a few days, and the same was for The Outsiders.
We read this in 6th grade for a book project that the whole class was doing. So I didn't have a choice about reading this book. But it turned out that I did love this book. It wasn't like any other ghost stories I have ever read.
Read this book when I was about 10 and have read it three times since. Obviously, it's a children's book, but like most books that involve some sort of time travel, its gets my approval. Very entertaining, and a bit spooky.
Andrew is spending his summer with his great aunt and meets the ghost of long dead relative also a boy named andrew. When they switch places he lives with his ancestors and realizes he may never go home. a fun read
This is not that scary of a ghost story! There's actually no ghosts! The only reason it is a ghost story is because he thinks it's a ghost but it's actually just a living person! :)
It's seriously the best book ever!!!
It's seriously the best book ever!!!
What made this ghost story good was the rounded character of the Andrew from the past. The character was very much a regular child, both friendly and careless. you have to forgive him even when you don't like him
a very good book! i actually liked "the doll in the garden." and "wait till helen comes" better than this one. i mean, this one was really good. i would recommend this book to people who like scary stories (:
This book was a good mystry for me. It had the past of the house where the main character was staying for the summer and the kids that have the same name and face always switch like all the other good books.
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