Giving Up the Ghost
by Sheri Sinykin
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Author: Sheri SinykinEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-01
ISBN: 1561454230
Number of pages: 240
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Publisher: Peachtree Publishers
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Book Review: There are far better ghost stories out there.
Summary: 3 Stars
I would not hesitate to recommend this book to a 10-year-old. It was a straightforward-enough story, and children are not known for their discrimination. That said, as a librarian who reads a great deal of children's literature, I was very underwhelmed. The characters were wooden and fairly two-dimensional, the story competent but clunky, and I saw every single plot 'twist' coming.
Instead, I would highly recommend Vivian Vande Velde's ghost stories, Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn, The House With a Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs, The Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix (more fantasy than ghost story) and King in the Window by Adam Gopnik.
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