What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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The Trickster Ghost
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SOLVED. Early Middle Grade Fantasy chapter book about a ghost who spells out her name with objects? [s]
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The Trickster Ghost by Showell.https://openlibrary.org/search?q=Tric...
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"Hey, I'm right! Look, Rachael. Look at the first letter of each word. R for rock, O for ourglass, S for shell, and E for elephant. It spells Rose! That's a clue!"
How to find:Google search
ghost rose book "spell out"
Looked at this result where a suggestion said solved.
Ghost girl named Rose
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30 Mar 2023 — She is stealing things to try to spell out her name— she took the hourglass because the H is silent and so she thought it started with an O.
Oh my gosh THANK YOU!!! I have been SCOURING the internet for months trying to find this book! You’d think I’d have enough buzzwords to find it, but it never came up. Thank you so much!!
One of the problems must've been my mistaken recollection of the jump rope? "R" is for ROCK. I definitely thought it was ROPE. I'm so thrilled to know what this book is, finally!
I searched keywords that seemed likely to occur. Memory can be faulty but you did recall the rope from the book. If you search the book on openlibrary after borrowing (free to join and borrow), rope comes up and the jump rope was turning by itself.
Early middle grade chapter book about two kids in a haunted house. I don't think they knew it was haunted. I think maybe it was a hotel that they were visiting with their family or something, or maybe a new house? First they see a rope jumping on its own, then I think there is something strange about a clock or hourglass. They realize that the ghost is using items to spell out her name, which is R-O-S-E. (R for rope, etc.) I remember that one of the kids proposes this idea, but the older one tells him/her, that the word "HOUR" (the clue from the second haunted item) is spelled with an H, not an O. Eventually, they realize that the ghost is so young, she thought "HOUR was spelled with an O, too. Unfortunately, I can't remember what the third and fourth haunted items (the 'S' and the 'E') were. I read a lot of Apple paperback and scholastic mysteries when I was a kid. I am CERTAIN that the ghost was a young girl, and that her name was Rose. I don't remember what the living kids' names were.
It wasn't a big series like Babysitters club, boxcar children, Nancy Drew, etc.
Thanks for your help!