![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Carolyn Caywood, Virginia Beach Public LibraryĬopyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Bruce Coville including rare. The use of the Civil War haunting is similar to Virginia Hamilton's House of Dies Drear (Macmillan, 1968), but this is an easier, more conventional mystery that nevertheless evokes real feeling. which begin with The Ghost in the Third Row and The Ghost Wore Gray. The Confederate soldier's gradual change of heart is well handled in his journal, and readers' satisfaction at solving the mystery is matched by the sense of justice finally served. The ghost provides clues that require deduction to solve, and the villain is hard to spot but obvious once discovered. Despite the fantasy element of a ghost, this is a mystery that follows the genre's rules. Bit by bit it becomes clear that the dying Confederate wanted to leave his treasure to the conductor of the Underground Railroad who had tended him. The two girls are simply curious about why a Southerner who died during the Civil War appears in the halls of a dilapidated hotel in New York State, but someone else is after much more. Grade 5-8 In this sequel to The Ghost in the Third Row (Bantam, 1987), sixth-grader Nina Tanleven and her friend Chris accompany Nina's architect father to an old inn in the Catskills that is haunted by a Confederate soldier. ![]()
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