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Behind the Attic Wall was written by Sylvia Cassidy in the late eighties. This is a story about a young girl named Maggie who at the age of twelve had been kicked out of more boarding schools and foster homes that she cared to remember. She is sent to live with her two great-aunts Lillian and Harriet and her uncle Morris. Maggie is at first rebellious disobedient and willful it isn't until she ventures behind the attic wall and discovers a pair of dolls that can walk and talk like real people, who love her does she begin to gradually change. Maggie is loved unconditionally and she in turn learns to love not until later do the readers and Maggie find out that the dolls are not ordinary dolls but in reality they had been real people, the head mistress and headmaster of the house Maggie's Aunts own which used to be a boadrding school, who had perished in a fire, but unlike Chucky and The doll from Goosebumps, these dolls are not out for revenge,they show Maggie there are others it the world besides herself. Readers of all ages will love this novel, it is sad at times and hilariously funny
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