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Bland but readable ghost story for kids who don't want to be scared. Unlike other books I've read from this author, there is nothing creepy here.
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A good ghost story for kids from fourth grade up. Scary, but not too scary. An inn is haunted by the ghosts of children who lived there when the place was a poor farm run by a cruel brother and sister Cornelius and Ada Jaggs in the 1800's. The people who lived on the poor farm were starved and worked to death. Ada was especially cruel to the boys who lived there, and considered that they were all bad and needed to be punished. Two children Corey and Travis come to spend the summer with their gra
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Not very well fleshed out, I thought the story dragged, and it wasn't until I was almost half way through, that I was truly interested in what happened next. The ghost story part wasn't very scary - the truly chilling bit was how all the lovely bad ones had been treated before their death - that did rise my ire, and made me want to see justice come to light at the end. I did think even that was exaggerated though, and that a similar effect could have been obtained with much less cheap tricks.
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A deliciously gothic ghost story. Two mischievous tweens go to stay with their grandmother for the summer at the inn she runs in Vermont. While their grandmother is exasperated at the rumors the inn is haunted, Travis and his sister, Corey, are delighted. The kids immediately resolve to fake a few hauntings of their own to boost their grandmother's business. The plan works perfectly at first--until the real ghosts show up. What began as a prank turns into an atmospheric tale of long-ago child ab
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MDH was an author I very much enjoyed reading growing up and her books are still very enjoyable to me as an adult. I was excited to discover her books on hoopla digital so that I can read them online for free with my library card.
This is not my favorite genre. It was okay.
Apr 24, 2008
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
marked it as to-read
