Bernie Magruder and the Haunted Hotel [Paperback]

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Author)

Book Description

Series: Bernie Magruder

What's bigger than a chair, but smaller than a house? Larger than a loaf of bread, but isn't an animal or a vegetable?

What could this ghost want?!

Bernie and his friends Georgene and Weasel are going crazy trying to figure out how to please the ghost who's haunting Bernie's father's hotel. If Bernie's father loses his job, then his family will need to move again -- but Bernie likes Middleburg, and wants to stay. And so, before his father can be ousted from the suffering hotel, Bernie must face the ghost -- and figure out how to make it leave them all alone!

Editorial Reviews

Review

"When most people hear 'large-print book,' they immediately think senior citizen. But large-print editions of popular children's books -- from the powerhouse Harry Potter series to timeless classics like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -- are now making their way onto the shelves of the Children's Department at the Canton Library. . . . Although large-print editions are targeted to the visually-impaired or dyslexic child, they can also be used by standard-vision readers. So Kershner [Children's librarian at the Canton Public Library] has decided against creating a special section in the Children's Department (as exists in the Adult Department) opting instead to intersperse large-print books on the shelves with the regular print versions of the same titles."
-- The Observer and Eccentric (October 2000) (The Observer and Eccentric )

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-- Jim Bernardin, Islamorada, FL

"Everyone loves to read, there's nothing like curling up with a good book. We're a reading family, so when our son was diagnosed with Stargardt's Disease and only able to read Large Print, it was particularly difficult. Books on tape are wonderful but they don't fill the void of actually reading a good story. Large Print books have been around a long time for older people, but to find a good novel for a young person in Large Print began to feel nearly impossible. The books that Thorndike Press publishes have truly made a difference in my son's reading life. He can enjoy current novels as well as some of the classics that he missed reading when it became too difficult with regular print."
-- Sara Bernardin, Islamorada, FL

". . . full of action, suspense, and lots of ingenuity on the part of Bernie and his friends."
-- The Horn Book --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is the celebrated and prolific author of many books for young readers, including the Newbery Medal book Shiloh, and the popular Alice series. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Aladdin (April 3, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0689841264
• ISBN-13: 978-0689841262
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #901,035 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I guess I've been writing for about as long as I can remember. Telling stories, anyway, if not writing them down. I had my first short story published when I was sixteen, and wrote stories to help put myself through college, planning to become a clinical psychologist. By the time I graduated with a BA degree, however, I decided that writing was really my first love, so I gave up plans for graduate school and began writing full time.

I'm not happy unless I spend some time writing every day. It's as though pressure builds up inside me, and writing even a little helps to release it. On a hard-writing day, I write about six hours. Tending to other writing business, answering mail, and just thinking about a book takes another four hours. I spend from three months to a year on a children's book, depending on how well I know the characters before I begin and how much research I need to do. A novel for adults, because it's longer, takes a year or more. When my work is going well, I wake early in the mornings, hoping it's time to get up. When the writing is hard and the words are flat, I'm not very pleasant to be around.

Getting an idea for a book is the easy part. Keeping other ideas away while I'm working on one story is what's difficult. My books are based on things that have happened to me, things I have heard or read about, all mixed up with imaginings. The best part about writing is the moment a character comes alive on paper, or when a place that existed only in my head becomes real. There are no bands playing at this moment, no audience applauding--a very solitary time, actually--but it's what I like most. I've now had more than 120 books published, and about 2000 short stories, articles and poems.

I live in Bethesda, Maryland, with my husband, Rex, a speech pathologist, who's the first person to read my manuscripts when they're finished. Our sons, Jeff and Michael, are grown now, but along with their wives and children, we often enjoy vacations together in the mountains or at the ocean. When I'm not writing, I like to hike, swim, play the piano and attend the theater.

I'm lucky to have my family, because they have contributed a great deal to my books. But I'm also lucky to have the troop of noisy, chattering characters who travel with me inside my head. As long as they are poking, prodding, demanding a place in a book, I have things to do and stories to tell.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars Slow delivery, great condition!, September 7, 2007

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Kristin E. Miller "Polishprinsess" (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bernie Magruder and the Haunted Hotel (Paperback)

Delivery was a little slower than I am used to. The book was in excellent condition.