The Plot Twist: Took By Mary Downing Hahn

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Have you ever wanted to read a book that has a few plot twists that can be interesting but also very suspicious? Well if you have, you need to read Took it’s so amazing yet very skeptical. The book Took is a Mark Twain Award Nominee book and is a horror story book by Mary Downing Hahn. This is a book about and old lady named Auntie that can sniff fear. The girl Erica is scared of the dark and the old house well their new house, but a special persons old house. The story all makes sense at the beginning, but then there is a huge plot twist that majorly changes everything in the story. The book Took all changes when their is a plot twist. That plot twist makes everyone in the book think differently about there little town called Woodville,

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