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Gr 7 Up–An updated version of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw. Jack is separated from his girlfriend by her disapproving father, who arranges a summer job for the boy babysitting two orphaned children, Miles and Flora, on an isolated island. The story is narrated by Jack in a series of letters to Sophie that relate the increasingly odd happenings: people appear that no one else can see, Jack hears vague rumors of a strange death on the island last year, and the two children appear to be hiding secrets of their ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In this modern-day <i>Turn of the Screw</i>, Jack spends the summer on a remote island looking after two children. He s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More