October 2020 -- Ghosts, Monsters and the Like

[QNPoohBear]

Hmm if the libraries had them when I was a kid, the libraries I visited have since weeded them. They are still in the system at other libraries.

I loved time slip stories or stories were a modern girl was the one doing the "haunting" visiting the past or friends with a girl who is from the past.

I read The Doll in the Garden and liked that a lot when I was young.

Can I Get There by Candlelight? was a tween favorite of mine!
Another one I loved was Stonewords: A Ghost Story.

A more recent book, Something Upstairs, is a modern classic but absolutely inaccurate and implausible (never mind the ghost story). Also no one has seen a ghost in Avi's old house boohoo! He even removed any trace of ghosts in Gold Rush Girl which is set at the same address, his old house.

[Manybooks, Fiction Club host]

I have now read all of the Ghost series books by Marion Dane Bauer.

I enjoyed them all (The Blue Ghost, The Red Ghost, The Green Ghost and The Golden Ghost), although The Red Ghost is a bit too choppy (and the ghost a bit mean for no textual reason) and for the one I just read, for The Golden Ghost , I kind of wish the old man was not such a sourpuss and that at the end, Delsie and he would share owning the ghost dog.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I do recommend the series for young readers (and especially for young readers who want ghost stories without too much creepiness).

[Manybooks, Fiction Club host]

I am also leaving a link for the October 2021 true ghost stories topic for the Miscellaneous Club.


https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...