Ghosts I Have Been
10 best books like Ghosts I Have Been (Richard Peck): Light a Single Candle, The Egypt Game, The Pistachio Prescription, Stonewords: A Ghost Story, Your Baby's First Word Will Be DADA, The Figure in the Shadows, The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring, Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball, Sherlock Holmes: Misteri Yang Tak Terpecahkan (A Slight Trick of the Mind), A Gift of Magic
| Author | Beverly Butler |
| ISBN | 0671298682 |
When Cathy lost her sight at the age of 14, she faced a very different way of life, where her other senses had to take over the work of her eyes. Adjusting to blindness was often easier than handling the reactions of people. One friend who now avoided her her. Another smothered her with too much kindness....
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0808553038 |
The first time Melanie Ross meets April Hall, she's not sure they'll have anything in common. But she soon discovers that they both love anything to do with ancient Egypt. When they stumble upon a deserted storage yard behind the A-Z Antiques and Curio Shop, Melanie and April decide it's the perfect spot...
| Author | Paula Danziger |
| ISBN | 0142406821 |
Cassie Stephens is dealing with a lot. She's got asthma. World War III is waged daily in her home, beginning at the breakfast table and ending with slammed doors at night. She's running for freshperson class president. The pressure is mounting, and there's only one thing that can make Cassie feel better....
| Author | Pam Conrad |
| ISBN | 0064403548 |
The first time Zoe met Zoe Louise, Zoe was four years old. Zoe Louise was more than 100. From that day on -- living in the same house, separated by a staircase and a century -- Zoe and Zoe Louise have been an important and permanent part of each other's lives.
Now Zoe is older. And although Zoe Louise...
Your Baby's First Word Will Be DADA
WOW, why all the hate for this book?
Uh oh, I'm sensing a rant coming on.
So. You resent that Jimmy Fallon is a celebrity, and had the star status and money to not only write a book but promote the hell out of it? That because he is famous, his book got written?
I have news for you. He...
The Figure in the Shadows
| Author | John Bellairs |
| ISBN | 0142402605 |
Lewis is sure that Grandpa Barnavelt's 1859 lucky coin is really a magic talisman in disguise. With its power, he could do anything he wanted--like get back at bully Woody Mingo. But as soon as he begins wearing the coin around his neck, strange things start to happen. Mysterious letters arrive in the...
The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring
| Author | John Bellairs |
| ISBN | 0142402613 |
Rose Rita Pottinger is dreading summer. With her best friend, Lewis Barnavelt, away at Boy Scout camp, vacation threatens to be altogether boring. But when Mrs. Zimmermann, Lewis's next door neighbor and a genuine witch, receives a strange deathbed letter from an eccentric uncle, unexpected things...
Another surprising bookstore find. I'm glad I'm reading this at 30 and not at 15. I think I would have liked it then, but I would've understood it in a different way, probably more intuitively but less concretely.
The main characters, Louis (Marsh) Mellow and Edna Shinglebox, get to know each other...
Long after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle allowed him to retire to Sussex to take up beekeeping, there seems to be no end of enthusiasm for imagined versions of the life of Sherlock Holmes. There was Michael Chabon's The Final Solution in which "the old man," an 89-year-old beekeeper in Sussex is undoubtedly...
| Author | Lois Duncan |
| ISBN | 0440228476 |
A Gift of Magic wasn't the type of book I'd been expecting, but I'm glad I decided to read it. Written in a mysterious style with an ordinary setting, this book is full of fantasy elements and childhood nostalgia, but it's not a babyish or age-limited book. It's a very timeless story really, one that could...
| Author | Joan Lowery Nixon |
| ISBN | 0440219167 |
What a silly, silly book! Epically ‘90s and cheesy. I read a zillion books like this when I was, like, twelve.
As a kid, I probably would have liked this in a non-ironic way, as opposed to the laughing way that I kind of enjoyed it now. We have an intrepid fifteen-year-old heroine who wants to be...
