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Overview

The house held secrets, Thomas knew, even before he first saw it looming gray and massive on its ledge of rock. It had a century-old legend — two fugitive slaves had been killed by bounty hunters after leaving its passageways, and Dies Drear himself, the abolitionist who had made the house into a station on the Underground Railroad, had been murdered there. The ghosts of the three were said to walk its rooms....

A black family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781416914051
  • Publisher: Aladdin
  • Publication date: 1/3/2006
  • Edition description: Reissue
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 97,596
  • Age range: 11 - 14 Years
  • Lexile: 0670L (what's this?)
  • Series: Dies Drear Chronicle Series , #1
  • Product dimensions: 5.20 (w) x 7.50 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton

Born into a large family and raised on a farm in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Ms. Hamilton grew up listening to stories shared by her mother and father. While studying writing at the New School for Social Research in New York City, she met a young poet, Arnold Adoff, and the two were married in March 1960. In 1968, Ms. Hamilton's first book, Zeely (S&S, 0-02-742470-7; Aladdin, 0-689-71695-8. Ages 10 up), edited by Richard Jackson, was published; and she and her family (which now included her daughter Leigh and her son Jaime) moved back to Yellow Springs, building their home on land that had been in Ms. Hamilton's family for generations. Ms. Hamilton's second book, The House Of Dies Drear (S&S, 0-02-742500-2; Aladdin, 0-02-043520-7. Ages 12 up), was published in 1968 and won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best juvenile mystery. The success of these first two novels heralded a long and prolific career full of accolades and the most prestigious awards in children's literature.

Ms. Hamilton won the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1992 and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in 1995 for her body of work. Also in 1995, Ms.Hamilton received a John D. and Catherine C. MacArthur Fellowship, presented to "talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits" and have demonstrated "exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment, and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work." She was the first African American to win the Newbery Medal, which was presented to her for M.C. Higgins, the Great (Aladdin, 0-02-043490-1; Aladdin, 0-689-71694-X; S&S, 0-689-83074-2. Ages 10 up). M.C. Higgins, the Great was also the first of only two books ever to win the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (Philomel/Penguin Putnam, 1982), The Planet Of Junior Brown (S&S, 0-02-742510-X; Aladdin, 0-689-71721-0; Aladdin, 0-02-043540-1), and In The Beginning: Creation Stories From Around The World (Harcourt, 1988) were all Newbery Honor books. Ms. Hamilton won the Coretta Scott King Award three times, and three times her books were selected as Coretta Scott King Award Honor books. Twice she won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction (for M.C. Higgins the Great and for Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush), while Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (Knopf, 1988) won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction. In 1996 the NAACP Image Award was presented to her for Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, And True Tales (Blue Sky Press/Scholastic, 1995). She was also a winner of the Regina Medal of the Catholic Library Association, and in 1984 an annual children's literature lecture was established in her name at Kent State University.

Ms. Hamilton's writing career spanned more than thirty years, during which time she was awarded every major honor for children's book writing. To learn more about Ms. Hamilton and her books, please visit her Web site: http://www.virginiahamilton.com/

Biography

A writer of prodigious gifts, Virginia Hamilton forged a new kind of juvenile fiction by twining African-American and Native American history and folklore with contemporary stories and plotlines.

With Hamilton's first novel, Zeely, the story of a young farm girl who fantasizes that a woman she knows is a Watusi queen, she set the bar high. The book won a American Library Association Notable Children's Book citation. Hamilton rose to her own challenge, and every new book she published enriched American literature to such a degree that in 1995 she was awarded the ALA's Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for lifetime achievement.

Born in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and raised in an extended family of farmers and storytellers (her own father was a musician), Hamilton's work was inspired by her childhood experiences, family mythology, and Ohio River Valley homeland. In an article about the importance of libraries in children's lives, she credits her mother and the "story lady" at her childhood public library with opening her mind to the world of books.

Although she spent time in New York City working as a bookkeeper after college, and traveled widely in Africa and Europe, Hamilton spent most of her life in Yellow Springs, anchored by the language, geography, and culture of southern Ohio. In The House of Dies Drear, she arranged her story around the secrets of the Underground Railroad. In M. C. Higgins, the Great, winner of both a John Newbery Medal and a National Book Award, she chronicled the struggles of a family whose land, and life spirit, is threatened by strip mining. Publishers Weekly called the novel "one of those rare books which draws the reader in with the first paragraph and keeps him or her turning the page until the end."

In her series of folk-tale collections, including The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World, and Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales, Hamilton salvaged and burnished folk tales from cultures across the world for her stories; stories that suffused her fiction with its extraordinary blend of worldly and otherworldly events, enchantment, and modern reality. Virginia Hamilton died on February 19, 2002.

Good To Know

Hamilton's first research trip to a library was to find out more about her family's exotic chickens, which her mother called "rainbow layers," because of the many tints of the eggs they laid.

In 1995, Hamilton became the first children's writer to win a John D. and Catherine C. MacArthur "genius" grant.

    1. Date of Birth:
      March 12, 1936
    2. Place of Birth:
      Yellow Springs, Ohio
    1. Date of Death:
      February 19, 2002
    2. Place of Death:
      Yellow Springs, Ohio
    1. Education:
      Attended Antioch College, Ohio State University, and the New School for Social Research
    2. Website:
      http://www.virginiahamilton.com/

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 4, 2007

    Spooky and good

    A great tale of an old house used in the Underground Railroad lived in by new people who experience the supernatural. Ghosts, heritage and history.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 21, 2012

    Bleh

    We are reading this dumb book in class.

    1 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted March 15, 2011

    movies great

    we watched the movie in class and although it was creepy it wad good

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 7, 2010

    not so good

    this book was not what i expected. it dragged on and on. it was very hard to get into the book. every time i was forced to read another chapter was dreadful. i had to read it in school. i personally did not like it at all. for picky readers i do not suggest this book.

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 7, 2012

    Ughhhhh

    The beginings good but it just goes downhill i had to read this at school i wish i never read it.... and some people said it was funny r u kidding me!?!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 1, 2012

    BORING!!!!!!!!

    I HAD TO READ THIS FOR SCHOOL AND OH MY LORD WAS IT BORING,WE WOULD ALL FALL ASLEEP TRTING TO READIT IN CLASS!!!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 1, 2012

    Intresting

    The first chapter is ok but the book has alot of intresting parts but at the same time it has the boring parts in between

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 25, 2012

    3rd worst book I've ever read...

    I hated "Dies Drear" I had to read this book for school, overall I pretty much hated this book. Quite frankley it was painful to read becuase it just dragged on forever!
    *Note: if you have trouble getting to sleep at night pick this up, read 10 pages and you'll be out like a light.

    0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 25, 2011

    Amazing

    Reading this for school, its a great story!

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 31, 2011

    I love it!

    I watched it in class and read the book. Its my favorite!

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted March 6, 2011

    awful

    wasted ten dorllars only 149 pages very boring

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 14, 2011

    scary but good

    uz

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 26, 2010

    Interesting.

    '' Dies Drear '' is a good book. The author seemed to describe things very well. This was the best I read this year. I liked the theme and the way things worked out in the end. I did not expect the ending to be played out the way it did. It had some haunted-based parts. The book had good characters that i enjoyed reading about. I will recommend this book to anyone who likes to read ghost stories & mysteries.

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  • Posted January 12, 2010

    A little known classic

    I read this book as a child and remember how captivating it was. And I wanted to share that with my daughter.

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  • Posted October 19, 2009

    The best book i have read yet in my 8th grade year.

    ERA's Book Review
    The amazing novel, The House of Dies Drear, is made up of, what I say is, Historical Fiction and Mystery. This novel doesn't just teach you a little more about the Underground Railroad, it takes in an amazing ride through the walls and passages of a house that was used a lot by the slaves, and other people running away from slavery. The author, Virginia Hamilton, should get the best book award, because this book is the coolest I've read in my 8th grade year.
    Let me tell you something, I don't suggest this book to people that get scared really easily or kids from ages 0-10 for the following reasons:
    1. Book is a high level book, so it's harder to read.
    2. Has scaring factors for children ages 0-8.
    This book kept me hypnotized by its amazing writing. It is built to give the reader a small scare, but a picture of what's going on (for those of you that can't really imagine things). If you don't really like reading, I recommend this book definitely, because it has such a great plot and it gives you what I call snap shots of what is going on in the story. This book is amazing and will never bore you, this book is built tough and is in my top ten lists of books I've read.
    Thank You Virginia Hamilton for your great writting skills.

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  • Posted September 5, 2009

    A Must Read!

    A piece of history woven into a great story. You will fall in love with the characters because of the descriptive language, and the rich historical details that make you feel like you are right there.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 4, 2008

    awsome!!!!!

    this book was awsome! i had to read it for english class and i thought it would be boring, but once you get into it you can't put it down!! i thought it was the most entertaining book i had every read in school. keep on reading good books

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 13, 2008

    Scary

    THis book scared the pants off of me. I slept horribly the night after the chase scene.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 4, 2007

    A reviewer

    I watched the movie in my fourth grade class but the book is even better

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 10, 2007

    SWEET BOOK!!!!!

    Thomas Small snd his family leave their home in North Carolina for Ohio where they live in an old house used in the Underground Rail Road. Thomas is a 13 year old very observative boy. He and his father explore the tunnels found under their house. Thomas hears scary noises and becomes afraid. After meeting the Darrow family and Mr. Pluto, Mr. Small and Thomas explore the tunnels and find out that the real Mr. Pluto is sick down there and his son was pretending to be him.The story is good but kind of confusing. I ENJOYED IT GREATL!!!

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