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The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs

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The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs is a very appealing book. It's a sequel to the book, The Ghost of Fossil Glen. This book is about a girl named Allie. She faced her first ghost at Fossil Glen, a spirit of a murdered eleven-year-old girl named Lucy Stiles. Now, another ghost has entered Allie's life. The ghost tells and forces Allie in the direction of Mrs. Hobbs, the daunting cafeteria lady. Allie thinks Mrs. Hobbs has something to do with the death of this ghost. Her life suddenly becomes complex, and random, mystifying fires breaking out wherever she goes. Allie's best friend is mad at her, and both are jealous of each other. Same thing with her little brother, Mike, and he keeps thinking Allie is lying about Mrs. Hobbs being harmless. He thinks otherwise.
I have various thoughts on this book. I personally thought this book was okay. I mean, it wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible either. So, it was somewhat in the middle. But, I liked it. I recommend this book if you love a good mystery, or a page turner. This book is also full of suspense. Even if it might seem confusing, it gets easier and easier towards the end. That is what I think of the book, The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs.

About three weeks before this story begins Allie almost dies on a class fieldtrip to Fossil Glen, while helping a ghost named Lucy Stiles. Now she has a weird dream about a fire, and she senses that maybe another ghost needs her help. That is when weird things began happening. First, Allie's class gets and assignment to interview someone for Elder's Day. While everyone is talking at the lunch table about who they might interview, someone had said they were going to interview Mrs. Hobbs. Everyone was stunned by that announcement, Allie was looking around to see who had said such a thing. Then she realized everyone was looking at her, she was the one who had said it. But who would want to interview her, or even talk to her. Mrs. Hobbs was the lunch lady which everyone was scared of. Everyone in the school knew her as "The Snapping Turtle" of "Old Hobbling Hobbs." After school Allie was walking with her best friend Dub, which is the only person who knows about Allie's encounters with ghosts, that is when Karen Laver and Pam Wright walk up. Like normal Karen puts down Allie about interviewing Mrs. Hobbs, then everyone was waiting for Pam to to say something to add onto what Karen had just said. Instead, Pam told them that she thought it was a pretty cool idea. When When Pam left from walking with Dub and Alliethe started thinking of many theories about what Mrs. Hobbs had to do with Allie's ghost. That night Allie started hearing a voice of a sad man talking to her. Two days later Allie went to interview Mrs. Hobbs, she decided to ask her about her family, which must have upset her because her hands clentched tighter and tighter. Then she looked down at her paper that had a list of things she could ask about. The last thing on her list was ASK ABOUT THE FIRE!!!. But Allie though how couldyou suddenly ask a question like that. But all of a sudden she blurted out "Tell me about the fire." Which reall yupset Mrs. Hobbs because she started walkin toward Allie and screaming at her. Suddenly smoke started rising form a stack of papers, a fire has started in the cafeteria. No one knew how or why the fire had started , although Allie had her theories. Throughout the next few weeks many other weird things happened like when she went to the library to read about fires, and try to find out about one that had Mrs. Hobbs involved in it, the microfilm that she was reading about fires on started to melt. Another thing was Mr. Henry, Aliie's teacher, has asked her to watch his dog Hoover while he went away, but Hoover was acting weird toward Allie by growling and barking at her. ALso, John Walker who we come to find out is Allie's ghost, starts talking to her a lot and does things to make her gain his trust. Which probably wasn't the best thing for her to do, because he would say things about Dub which made Allie think Dub was just really jeleous of him. Dub was kind of though because he knew there was something weird about John Walker. Doing that meant that Allie lost Dubs friendship for awhile. Then things started happening to people close to Allie and people that were trying to help Alliue with her peoject. Then Allie realized that things were weird about John Walker. So she decided to apologize to Dub because she had acted so horrible to him. So hey worked things out. They went over somethings, then they went to Mrs. Hobbs house. I think that everyone should read this book it is AWESOME!! It truly kept me turning pages for hours.

The Ghost and Mrs.Hobbs is a great story for people of all ages. It kept me in suspense right up to the last chapter! I could'nt wait to finish and see how the story turned out! I chose to listen to this book on audio for my english class because I thought that it would be short and I would'nt have to listen to it for that long, I never thought that I would actually like the book, but I did! If I could I would write another paper for it! I really think that you should read this book because I know you'll enjoy it!

Just a few short weeks ago, sixth grader Allie Nichols encountered her first ghost, the spirit of a murdered girl named Lucy Stiles. Now another ghost has enters Allie's life! Her best friend, Dub Whitwell, says Allie must be "some kind of ghost magnet."

The new ghost appears to Allie as a handsome young man, and points her in the direction of Mrs. Hobbs, the scary cafeteria lady. Allie has always suspected that a terrible experience accounts for Mrs. Hobbs's strange behavior. Could Mrs. Hobbs have killed the handsome young man?

Allie's life becomes complicated as she tries to help lay her ghost to rest. For one thing, mysterious fires seem to break out wherever she turns. Dub is mad at her, and even her teacher's dog doesn't want anything to do with her. Soon she is in danger, along with her little brother - but from whom?

I am 22 years old and I could not put this book down. Maybe it's because I am going to be a teacher, or maybe the book was just good. I loved the ending. I guessed what would happen before the end but not to the extent that the author took it. I recommend it to any child who enjoys mysteries or ghost stories. It is definitely not too scary for most upper elementary children.

I'm only 9 but I love this book. I recommend this book to second graders and up because it's kind of scary. The book is just so well writen. I hope you liked or will like this book as much as I did!

"The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs" is a great mystery story. This story starts off with a girl named Allie, and a boy named Dud. Allies teacher assigns every student to interview somebody and Allie chooses Mrs. Hobbs. The interview gets interrupted by a fire in the cafeteria at the school very close to where Allie was interviewing. Allie starts hearing things in her head and realizes that a ghost is telling her something about starting a fire and how he got killed in the fire. The ghost tells Allie that Mrs. Hobbs started a fire in her house that killed her husband, son and the ghost John Walker. John Walker is making Allie feel like Mrs. Hobbs is the one to blame. Dud and Allie go to the library and find old newspapers about the house fire. They find out that John Walker was engaged to Mrs. Hobbs but then she did not think he was good enough to be a father so she married another man. After Mrs. Hobbs married, John Walker was upset and started the house fire and now Allie and Dud know Mrs. Hobbs is telling the truth. I think this book kept you on the edge of your seat and readers that enjoy mysteries would like reading this book.

After reading The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs by Cynthia DeFelice, I felt the connection between me and the character, Allie. She is one of those girls that like to have new experiences in her life even if she knows that it's a dangerous risk to take.
She decides to interview Mrs. Hobbs, the lunch lady, to discover the mystery of her ghost John Walker. She comes through a lot of fires every where she turns, but Will he make her little brother risk her life? Or will she let everything rest? These are all questions Allie's house holds.
The author Cynthia DeFelice is very informative and the way she writes is so descriptively!
"Am I like a magnet ghost?" Is one of DeFelice sayings? This book makes me jolt when I read it because it gets better and better! So if your one of those persons that loves reading freaky and outrageous stories the check it out!
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The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs
By: Cynthia DeFelice

Allie Nicholas, a sixth-grader from Cynthia DeFelice's Ghost of Fossil Glen, helped her first ghost in that story. She thought the whole ghost business was behind her, but she was wrong. She is soon seeked out by a charming ghost who seems to need her help. It seems as though the scary school cafeteria lady has something to do with the mystery and not only refuses to help Allie, but steps in her way, too. She feels a little confident in the beginning, as this is her second ghost she is dealing with, but then that confidence is turned into confusion. She is getting mixed signals from the ghost and he doesn't seem to be helping her solve the mystery like the previous ghost had done. This time around she deals with jealousy of her good friend Dub and she is still dealing with her old "best friend" now worst enemy. And now her little brother seems to be mixed up in the whole ghost mess, which causes Allie great concern. And to make matters worse, everywhere she goes seems to catch on fire! It will take all her intelligence to solve this ghost mystery!

This is a great sequel to Fossil Glen (although totally independent of one another, the reading of Fossil is not needed to read Hobbs). Allie continues to be the smart, brave girl that always wants to help people out. There is a great moral in the story, too. Suspenseful and fun to read!

The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs is your typical horror/ghost book. But there's this thing that makes you want to read on, unlike your typical kind of book. There is so much action I couldn't stop reading! You just can't wait to figuire out what happens next! I really enjoed this book, you should read it too!

p.s. I read this book in 3 days