When Your House Obsession Becomes A Kid's Book: The Children of Green Knowe
Young Toseland Oldknow—Tolly, please, if you must give him a nickname, not Towser, or worse, Toto (I am trying to look past the implied insult to Oz here, everyone)—is off to live with his great-grandmother in a very old house that to him feels very far away. He is both scared and slightly hopeful: since the death of his mother, his only real family is a distant father and a well meaning but generally clueless stepmother, so a great-grandmother feels like something. She might even be real family. Spoiler: she is. What Tolly didn’t expect—and couldn’t expect—were the ghosts. Or, ...
Source: tor.com