Twelve-year-old Kathy Wicklow is psychic. The ability seems to run in her family. She sometimes has visions of people who have died. She likes to draw, and sometimes, with no effort on her part, she draws things that are significant to something that happened in the past. She uses this ability to solve mysteries that depend upon things that happened many years ago. Most of her adventures take place in California, where she lives, roughly during the 1990s.
Books in the Series:
The Shimmering Ghost of Riversend (1991)
Kathy visits her aunt at their old family home and sees the ghost of one of their ancestors, who reveals the truth behind an old murder.
The Secret of the Floating Phantom (1994)
Kathy goes to stay with her grandmother in California for awhile. However, her grandmother and her grandmother’s friend, Loretta, are holding secret nighttime séances to contact Loretta’s deceased husband in order to find something very important.
Dance of the Crystal Skull
Kathy is at first excited at the idea that she will spend her fall break with her grandmother at a geological dig in New Mexico, but it turns out that the dig doesn’t allow children. Instead, Kathy will be spending the trip with Concha, a friend of her aunt’s who lives in the little town of Santa Tierra. Kathy keeps having vision of a skull. What does it mean?
Kathy is spending some time with her mother at the lake while her mother takes care of a friend’s lodge there. Kathy keeps seeing a raft on the lake that nobody else can spot and the ghost of a young girl in a ragged dress. The girl ghost might be a girl named Ruby Faye, who died there many years ago under mysterious circumstances.
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