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Gr 4-6 When former best-selling children's author I.B. Grumply moves into a Victorian mansion in Ghastly, IL, to write the latest installment in his "Ghost Tamer" series, he is hindered by more than just his overwhelming case of writer's block. He is dismayed to find the mansion already occupied by an 11-year-old boy named Seymour Hope, his cat, and Olive C. Spence, a ghost living in the cupola who is unhappy because s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

This Snickety metafictional lollipop of a melodrama features Olive C. Spence, the ghost of a never-published children's writer who, way ahead of her time, wrote "graphic epistolary mysteries." She encounters Ignatius B. Grumply, a (live) children's writer who is experiencing writer's block. Together they write a ghost story, Z43 Old Cemetery Road, which is the series title of this very boo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Olive C. Spence, the ghost of a never-published children's writer, encounters Ignatius B. Grumply, a (live) children's author experiencing writer...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

This spirited novel’s narrative is conveyed entirely through letters, newspaper clippings (complete with illustrated “photographs”), drafts of Grumply’s dreadfully dull work-in-progress, and other documents. Amusing, cartoon-style drawings of the mansion and captioned portraits of the cast (each of whom has a wittily appropriate name) provide atmosphere. The characters cleverly reveal their personalities and penchants through their written communiqu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More