From Publishers Weekly
Colin Thompson's enigmatic artwork once again takes center stage in Falling Angels, the story of a girl who can fly. Sally thinks she's the only one who possesses this power but soon finds out her grandmother once flew, too. (Hutchinson [Trafalgar Sq., dist.], $16.95 32p ages 5-8 ISBN 0-09-176817-9; Oct.) In The Haunted States of America: Haunted Houses and Spooky Places in All 50 States... and Canada, Too! Joan Holub tells of ghosts said to guard buried treasure in Arizona's Superstition Mountains; in California, the Winchester Mystery House, built by the wife of the heir to the Winchester rifle fortune, was designed with maze-like hallways, secret rooms, as well as stairs and doors "leading to nowhere" in an effort to elude the ghosts she thought were haunting her. ( Sept.)
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From School Library Journal
Gr 3-6-In this haunted guidebook, readers are asked, "Do you believe in ghosts?" and told to "-read on, IF YOU DARE-." The scares are delivered as promised. White House ghosts, the infamous Winchester House of San Jose, Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau of New Orleans, and so much more are offered to those looking to have a fright or two. The chapters are short-most are two or three pages long. The drawings and few scattered photographs are not enough to entice readers. However, the stories make up for the lack of quality illustrations. Spooky words such as "apparition" and "exorcist" are included in the glossary. This title will be as popular as Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (HarperCollins, 1981) and Robert San Souci's A Terrifying Taste of Short and Shivery (Delacorte, 1998). Fans of those books will certainly gravitate toward this creepy-but oh such a fun-offering.
Anne Chapman Callaghan, Racine Public Library, WI
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