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There's a Dead Person Following My Sister Around
Vivian Velde (2008), 160 pages
Audience: 4th Grade - 7th Grade
Ted's little sister, Vicki, has a new friend named Marella, and she's a ghost. Vicki isn't afraid of Marella, who's a little girl like she is, but she is afraid of the bad lady who is chasing Marella. While investigating the ghost, Ted discovers a journal, left by his great-great-grandmother, Winifred, relating her story of assisting runaway slaves who drowned in the canal behind the house. And Ted's family still lives there. Why are the ghosts following Ted's sister? Was his house really a station in the Underground Railroad?
Similar books: Ghost Soldier by Elaine Marie Alphin; The Backyard Ghost by Lynn Cullen; The Battlefield Ghost by Margery Cuyler
Reviewed by: sc
Date read: 4/13/2009
ISBN-10: 0152064672
ISBN-13: 9780152064679
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Three Little Ghosties
Pippa Goodhart (2007), 32 pages
Illustrated by Anna Laura Cantone
Audience: Preschool - K
'Three little ghosties sat on their posties, eating burnt toasties, telling big boasties,' about whom they had scared. But when they set off to scare some girlsies and boyses, who will be the ones running for their momsies?
Reviewed by: mec
Date read: 10/21/2009
ISBN-13: 9781582347110
Drew isn't happy to be away from his parents for the summer at his great-aunt's spooky house. Strange things are happening, like when he smells food that isn't in the house and sees faint images of women crying next to his bedroom door. Then one night, a boy who looks just like him emerges from the attic. It turns out that the boy comes from the past, where he is dying. The only way he can survive is if Drew agrees to switch places with him. Drew agrees, and suddenly he is living eighty years in the past, pretending to be someone he's not. Will Drew ever find his way back home?
Reviewed by: emc
Date read: 1/28/2010
ISBN-10: 0395665566
ISBN-13: 9780395665565
Velcome to a collection of ghoulish stories, goofy jokes, and puns so bad they're scary. All brought to you by a man with an arrow in his head!
Reviewed by: hap
Date read: 10/19/2009
ISBN-10: 0802786286
ISBN-13: 9780802786289
Vlad the Impaler: The Real Count Dracula
Enid A. Goldberg (2007), 128 pages
Audience: 5th Grade - 8th Grade
The Legend of Count Dracula was inspired by this real-life Prince. Vlad had a thirst for blood and loyalty meant nothing to him. He betrayed his friends and family and befriended his enemies.
Reviewed by: St. Charles Reader
Date read: 11/28/2009
ISBN-10: 0531125998
ISBN-13: 9780531125991
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