One Ghost Too Many by Drew Stevenson, 1991.
Clark Lannigan meets Sarah Capshaw by accident when she comes to spend the summer with her grandparents in Wilsonburg. Sarah’s grandfather, Conrad Capshaw, is a lawyer, and he is handling the estate of Rodney Maplewood. Rodney Maplewood used to be a museum curator and had an impressive collection of antiques which he kept in his large house, Maplewood Manor.
Maplewood Manor is the oldest and the spookiest house in town. It was once owned by the eccentric Antonia Whitemarsh, who was a spiritualist and believed that her father’s spirit still inhabited the house. Now, people in town think that Rodney Maplewood’s ghost is also haunting the house because lights have been seen in the house at night. Conrad Chapshaw also says that, although nothing is missing, some objects in the house have been moved around.
Sarah persuades Clark and his friend “Frog” Fenniman to join her investigation of the house, but besides the resident ghost, they will also have to deal with a local group interested in psychic phenomena and a mysterious stranger who is paying the local bully to spy on the house.
This is the first book in the Sarah Capshaw Mysteries series. Sarah and her parents move to Wilsonburg, and she has other adventures with Clark and Frog, all narrated by Clark.
The book is currently available online through Internet Archive.
The Mystery on October Road by Alison Cragin Herzig and Jane Lawrence Mali, 1991.
The Ghost on the Hill by Grace Maccarone, 1990.
When they reach the state park, Dennis Ten Foot Bridge, who is the last of his tribe, tells the students about his tribe, teaches them wilderness skills, and leads them in group activities. One evening, Joey goes out to practice some rowing on the lake by himself, and he sees what looks like a large ghost at the top of a hill However, everyone knows that Joey lies about a lot of things, so at first, no one believes him. At least, no one except Adam.
Wrapped in a Riddle by Sharon E. Heisel, 1993.
The D- Poems of Jeremy Bloom by Gordon Korman and Bernice Korman, 1992.
Jeremy tries to make the best of things, but somehow (partly through his own fault and partly by accident), he continually manages to do things to annoy his poetry teacher, Ms. Terranova (or, as the kids call her, Ms. Pterodactyl, thanks to a mistake Jeremy made when he said her name on the first day of class). Every single poem Jeremy writes during the year receives the same grade: D-. The book is divided into different periods of Jeremy’s work, along with an explanation about what Jeremy did during each period to tick off his teacher. At the end, the reader can be the judge: Are Jeremy’s D- grades because he’s a terrible poet or because his teacher is mad at Jeremy for everything else he does during the year? (The answer is pretty obvious.)
My Crazy Cousin Courtney Returns Again by Judi Miller, 1995.
My Crazy Cousin Courtney Comes Back by Judi Miller, 1994.
My Crazy Cousin Courtney by Judi Miller, 1993.
The Night Crossing by Karen Ackerman, 1994.
This is a pretty short chapter book. Although the subject matter is serious, and parts might be frightening to young children (the part where Clara and Marta are chased and perhaps some of the parts where the family is hiding), there are only vague references to more dark subjects like concentration camps (people who already know what they are and what happened there would understand, but children who haven’t heard about them wouldn’t get the full picture from the brief mentions). The book would be a good, short introduction to the topic of the Holocaust by putting it in terms of the way it changed the lives of ordinary people who had to flee from it. Actually, it wouldn’t be a bad way to start a discussion of the Syrian refugees in Europe by putting it into the context of ordinary people fleeing the violence of war.
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