If reading is in your child’s blood, and even if it isn’t, he will be frightfully excited to bite into these entertainingly creepy chapter books.
Browsing: Ghosts
This should be a sad tale but instead is up-lifting. Much of that is due to the protagonist’s wry voice: Twelve-year-old Bee (short for Beatrice) is an orphan and works for a traveling carnival, living in the back of a truck with nineteen-year-old Pauline.
When I began working on SPOOKYGIRL: PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR, I knew right away that its main character, Violet, would have a ghostly pet. Because she has the ability to communicate with otherworldly spirits, Violet is all too used to ghosts. They don’t frighten her; they’re just a part of her daily life. It made sense, then, for her to have one as a sidekick.
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman is an enchanting story set in a world between life and death. Bod, has a unique upbringing, raised by ghosts in a graveyard.