Review of the Day: Trace by Pat Cummings

Trace By Pat CummingsHarper (an imprint of Harper Collins0$16.99ISBN: 978-0-269884-1Ages 9-12On shelves now

I feel like ghost stories don’t command the respect they used to. Can anyone seriously contest that they aren’t popular? When I was a kid, the Scholastic Book Club flyer always featured at least one Apple paperback that was ghost related. Inevitably written by a Willo Davis Roberts or a Mary Downing Hahn or a Betty Ren Wright, they were a consistent source of safe spooks. I trusted gho...