Behind the Attic Wall vs The Watch House: Which Should You Read?
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Behind the Attic Wall
“Today was the anniversary: May fourteenth.”
Behind the Attic Wall is a children's novel by Sylvia Cassedy, first published in 1983. At twelve, Maggie had been thrown out of more boarding schools than she cared to remember. "Impossible to handle," they said …
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The Watch House
While spending the summer with her old nurse on the north English coast, a teen-age girl discovers that her presence in the nearby Watch House, a museum containing relics of shipwrecks and rescues, releases a powerful…
The verdict
- Readers rate Behind the Attic Wall highest: Behind the Attic Wall 4.1 · The Watch House 3.8.
- Behind the Attic Wall has the widest readership — 5979 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Behind the Attic Wall | The Watch House | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.1 (5979) | — |
| Hardcover | 3.5 (4) | 3.5 (2) |
Reception
| Behind the Attic Wall | The Watch House | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 5979 | 3 |
| Editions | 9 | 16 |
| Citations | — | 3 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Wikipedia attention | 369 | 286 |
| Pages | 315 | 228 |