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Ghost Cat
Being stuck with a bunch of unfriendly relatives was definitely not the way Annabel wanted to spend her summer. But everything changes when the ghost of a beautiful cat appears to her one morning.
The cat draws Annabel into a frightening mystery. Many years ago a woman disappeared. Now she --and her cat -- are crying out to Annabel for help.
How could Annabel have conjured...more
The cat draws Annabel into a frightening mystery. Many years ago a woman disappeared. Now she --and her cat -- are crying out to Annabel for help.
How could Annabel have conjured...more
Paperback, 191 pages
Published
1984
by Scholastic Inc.
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Ghost! Cat! Ghost Cat! Poor fourteen year-old Annabel is stuck on her relatives' Wisconsin farm for the summer, so her widowed mom can have space to begin dating again--something that Annabel's not at all happy about. Annabel doesn't fit in with her cousins, and to make matters worse, she encounters a mysterious cat that her family believes is connected to a woman's disappearance from the community forty years earlier. How much weirder can a girl's summer get?
I thought there'd be more cat in thi...more
I thought there'd be more cat in thi...more
Like I'd pass up something called 'Ghost Cat'.
Thank you Ghost Cat for justifying my picking up these weird preteen books, because, against all evidence to the contrary, this was pretty good.
After her widowed mother starts getting serious with a new boyfriend, Annabel is sent to stay with her father's relatives on the family farm in Wisconsin. She resents being shuttled off and not being "enough" for her mother the way she had been since her dad died. She doesn't know her relatives at all and so...more
Thank you Ghost Cat for justifying my picking up these weird preteen books, because, against all evidence to the contrary, this was pretty good.
After her widowed mother starts getting serious with a new boyfriend, Annabel is sent to stay with her father's relatives on the family farm in Wisconsin. She resents being shuttled off and not being "enough" for her mother the way she had been since her dad died. She doesn't know her relatives at all and so...more
Ghost Cat by Beverly Butler takes its inspiration from "Annabel Lee", Edgar Allan Poe's last poem. The young protagonist is named for the ill fated girl in Poe's poem and while staying with relatives she barely knows, Annabel Lee dredges up memories of a 40 year old feud.
While Poe may have been the starting point for this mystery, the book reminds me most of Be Buried in the Rain by Barbara Michaels but aimed at a younger audience. Although I enjoyed the 40 year old mystery and the ghost story b...more
While Poe may have been the starting point for this mystery, the book reminds me most of Be Buried in the Rain by Barbara Michaels but aimed at a younger audience. Although I enjoyed the 40 year old mystery and the ghost story b...more
A fun murder mystery/ghost story for younger readers. Annabelle spends the summer with her cousins, and discovers that she is the spitting image of a young woman who, fifty years ago, was involved in a mystery that may have ended in murder. A ghostly cat leads Annabelle to the clues, as she is mourning the death of her own cat and dealing with the changes in her life as her mother remarries.
Chilling without being too scary (I was easily scared as a kid), and certainly a page turner!
Chilling without being too scary (I was easily scared as a kid), and certainly a page turner!
Fantastic blast from the past! I found my childhood copy of this book while home from work, and it was the perfect anecdote to food poisoning! A well-told family mystery with a likeable young protagonist just coming into her own. I remember being genuinely creeped out as a kid reading this, but as an adult can appreciate the skill of the writer in weaving some very complex family drama into an enjoyable mystery read for kids.
Pretty good. Young girl who is quite tall sent to stay the summer with relatives she doesn't know. This one is not the typical supportive relatives help child to bloom. Poor kid has to deal with very unkind cousins and an uncle who rejects her. I found much of this uncomfortable and there wasn't really enough time at the end to relax in her new understanding and growth.
My mom found this book for me when I quite young because I used to love cats. I remember reading it over and over and getting really freaked out. I pulled it out again and still enjoyed it all these years later, though I don't know if from nostalgia or the book's merit as a good ghost story.
Pretty much the perfect ghost story, with a rural Wisconsin setting, an abandoned house, a genuine (and genuinely scary!) ghost, a murder? mystery, and some old family secrets tying it all together.
This book was really pretty creepy. I also liked that there were some things you could fill in about the back story that are never explicitly stated; this always makes me feel smart.
I will be honest. I haven't read this since I was 10 or 11, but I read it many, many times and loved it hardcore. It gets five stars for that.
A big favorite from childhood, that I read over and over and over. I reread it as an adult and it was just as good.
Oct 30, 2011
Patricia
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I'm reading this book because my 7 yr, old granddaughter asked me too. it seems like a cute book. Loved it!!
I read this book when I was 7 and for months I was convinced every shadow was out to get me ;D
I loved this book when I was a kid. Very spooky!
Loved this story as a child.
Really scary
This book was intresting, but at some parts boring. This book to me forever to get through. It had a weird ending that kind of confused me, but it still was a good book. I don't remember a lot of details about it but it is worth a read. So I recommened it to kids about 10 and up.
I read this so long ago that I just remember being attracted to the book by the picture of the eerily glowing cat on the cover and not a whole lot about the plot.
I will be reading it again one of these days so I can review it.
I will be reading it again one of these days so I can review it.
Love!! M-Tear is such a big fan of Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe, and this slice of greatness captured it awesomely without overdoing it!
This is a 3.5. A little too fast in the beginning, and no explanation at the end, but overall a good book.
I loved this when I was eleven. I can't say it was literature, but...I was eleven. Cut me some slack.
I love this book because when i first read it (about 10) I was scared while reading it! LOL!
This book scared the pants off me as a child...
Apr 19, 2013
Sherri
marked it as to-read
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Also known as
Beverly K. Olsen
Was married to Theodore Victor Olsen
Beverly was a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a long time resident of Rhinelander. Beverly had planned to be an artist, but an impending blindness impelled her to learn typing in order to rejoin her high school class. For practice, she began typing remembered stories which led to her inventing stories.
In 1954, she graduated cu...more
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Beverly K. Olsen
Was married to Theodore Victor Olsen
Beverly was a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a long time resident of Rhinelander. Beverly had planned to be an artist, but an impending blindness impelled her to learn typing in order to rejoin her high school class. For practice, she began typing remembered stories which led to her inventing stories.
In 1954, she graduated cu...more
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