When Annie starts at her new school in 1918, she’s eager to make friends. But Elsie, a strange, clingy girl with a cruel streak, won’t take no for an answer. Desperate to fit in, Annie joins the other girls in mocking Elsie—until the influenza epidemic sweeps through town and claims her life.
Now Elsie’s ghost is back, and she’s not done with Annie. What begins as whispers and shadows becomes a relentless haunting fueled by anger, loneliness, and betrayal. Annie wanted friendship. What she gets is payback from beyond the grave.
Set against the chilling backdrop of the 1918 flu, Mary Downing Hahn’s One for Sorrow is a haunting tale of guilt, ghosts, and the price of cruelty. A modern classic of middle-grade horror.
