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A Ghost In The House

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In this book, the narrator is Sarah Prescott. She and her family have been having hard times finically, but things seem to change when they move into her Great-Aunt Margaret's house, while she is in a nursing home. Sarah finally has a large room that she instantly loves and enjoys with her new friends. Then things change with Aunt Margaret unexpectedly comes back home, wanting to stay in Sarah's room. Nothing is the same after she comes home as objects begin to move, voices could be heard singing, and a mysterious painting continues to change. Yet, only Sarah and her Aunt are the only ones to notice any of these strange occurrences. They must get over their differences and work together to survive whatever it is after them in the house.

The interesting growth of the relationship between Sarah and her Aunt Margaret are definitely what holds the story together and makes it important. It is the wonderful spooky-ness and creepy scenes through-out the book that make it fun and interesting. And on top of all that it has some wonderful lessons for children to learn about selflessness, caring after others, the importance of family, and more. This is a book to please most readers, especially mystery/ghost stories and of course, Wright's fans. I highly recommend this book to all.

Maybe this book was little too young for me. I just expected more from the author of THE DOLLHOUSE MURDERS, I was sorely disappointed when the plot became immature and pointless. The book starts out exciting enough, when Sarah is forced to move out of her room for her cranky old Aunt. As always, the relationships and character developement are the highlight of Ms. Ren Wright's story, but that alone will not be enough to entertain a reader who wants a ghost story. The plot becomes absurd and unbeliveable evn for a ghost story. In this book, I wasn't very interested in the characters and Ms. Ren Wright seems to hope that the entire book with stand on that alone, but in the the end it cannot. The ending left me saying "Huh?" because it was simply pointless. It just seemed like there should be more to it. The already ridiculous plot was resolved far too easily and the ending resolution will leave readers feeling cheated, and disappointed.

My daughter loves Betty Ren Wright and wanted to share her books with me. I was flattered but not sure I really wanted to read a chapter book. SURPRISE! Her books are well written (even for an adult reader) and interesting! This is a great story and I've gone on to read other books of hers. My favorite is The Dollhouse Murders. My daughter's reading another of her books now.

Sarah moved to a new home which used to be her Great Aunt Magaret's house. Few weeks later her aunt moved in from the Nursery. After that, strange things began to happened when Sarah and her aunt are along in the house. Like the light turns on by themselves and the rooms get deathy cold and Sarah hears strange footsteps in the upstairs hall. And everytime Sarah looked at a painting she found( which was her aunt's) she sees that the painting has changed. I think you should read this book because it is scary. So grab " A Ghost In The House" By Betty Ren Wright and start reading! Also enjoy other books by betty Ren Wright. See Ya!

I read this when I was ten and found my self putting the book down ever so often because I was so scared. I'm 21 and now I'm reading it with the 9-year old I tutor. She loves it too! Not a dull moment!

Sarah and her family just moved in ther new house and she finds outthat her dad can't pay the bills so they need their aunt Marget to move in with them so they can get her check to pay there bills. And annt Margert want's her old room back that she had when she was a child.So she [sarah]has to move out her room that her aunt margret want so sarah has to move out her room to the stored room so her aunt can move in.I lick this book becase i can relat to her.