Underneath Wickham Hill
A heartwarming, gently spooky middle-grade adventure about a brave little sister, a vanished girl, a hidden tunnel, buried history, an unlikely friendship, and the courage it takes to follow someone you love into the darkBy Sylvia S. Pembrooke
Length4h 11m
About this audiobook
My sister went into the tunnel under Wickham Hill.
She never came out.
The night of the Harvest Lantern Festival, Lily made me promise.
If she wasn't back by midnight, I'd tell Mom and Dad.
Not before.
I was twelve. She was seventeen and stubborn and sure that being brave meant not being scared.
She had a yellowed map, a silver locket, and a secret from our grandmother's old letter.
"There's a door down there," she told me. "A silver door."
She thought it could prove the tunnel was once part of the Underground Railroad.
She thought it could prove old Mr. Pendleton wrong about the family he didn't want anyone to know about.
I watched her disappear under the black oak.
Then I went back to the pumpkin display and waited.
Midnight came. The lanterns went dark.
She didn't come back.
They found her backpack fifty feet in. The flashlight still worked.
They did not find Lily.
After three days, the town sealed the grate, chained it shut, and called it a safety hazard.
Everyone wanted to forget.
I couldn't.
Because Mrs. Hargrave, the old librarian who smells of lavender and dusty paper, leaned on her cane and whispered something to the police chief that made his face turn from doubt to fear.
And the tunnel? It still smells of wet stone and burnt sugar.
It's still down there, under the hill, holding its oldest secret.
Now Maddie has to do the thing she was too afraid to do that night.
She has to go down into the dark.
Past the well of whispers. Past the three locked doors. All the way to the silver chamber.
Because some promises can't be kept from the safe side of the grate.
Underneath Wickham Hill is a heartwarming, gently spooky middle-grade adventure about a brave little sister, a vanished girl, a hidden tunnel, buried history, an unlikely friendship, and the courage it takes to follow someone you love into the dark.
Perfect for readers who love underground mysteries, brave kid heroes, secret-history adventures, sibling bonds, and a hopeful ending that lights the way home. A standalone middle-grade adventure for ages 8 to 12.
Audiobook details
GenreChildren's Literature
Length4 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
11Chapter 10 - The Artist’s Secret
2Chapter 1 - The Hole in the Hill
12Chapter 11 - The Door in the Stone
3Chapter 2 - The Librarian’s Secret
13Chapter 12 - The Silver Chamber
4Chapter 3 - The Corner of Shame
14Chapter 13 - The Abyss
5Chapter 4 - Into the Dark
15Chapter 14 - The Collapse
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6Chapter 5 - The Well of Whispers
16Chapter 15 - The Underground River
7Chapter 6 - The Forgotten Chamber
17Chapter 16 - The Hollow Heart
8Chapter 7 - The Tide of Fear
18Chapter 17 - The Truth Revealed
9Chapter 8 - The Puzzle of Three Doors
19Chapter 18 - Under a New Sky
10Chapter 9 - The Maze of Lost Steps
20About the Author
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