Footsteps on the Stairs

By C. S. Adler

Fun loving Dodie is at a creepy beach house to get to know her neat little stepbrother and her cool, perfect stepsister, Anne. Anne is thirteen, like Dodie, but they couldn’t be more different. When both girls hear footsteps on the stairs at night, they are thrown together to solve the mystery. Their investigation lands them in the middle of a jealous quarrel between two long dead sisters. How can Dodie and Anne pacify the ghosts?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Feb 2, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504011150

C. S. Adler

C. S. Adler is the author of 43 middle grade and young adult novels published by major publishers from 1979 to 2002. Her first novel, Magic of the Glits, won the Golden Kite Award. Later prizes for her stories include the William Allen White Award and the ASPCA Henry Berg Award. Her novels have been included on many states recommended book lists and have been published in other countries such as Japan, Germany, England, Denmark, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Finland, France, and Turkey. Before becoming a full time author, she was a middle school English teacher in upstate New York where she lived with her husband and three sons before they moved to Tucson, Arizona. She now spends most of the year in Tucson and summers in Cape Cod.

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