Twelve-year-old twins Andy and Kat think they are in for a dull summer at a remote resort in western Oregon, until the ghost of a nine-year-old boy appears demanding restitution for a crime committed over 100 years before.
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Twins Andy and Kat Peterson are spending the summer helping take care of their Uncle Richard's secluded resort. It's a big change from Portland, but chores, small-town intrigue and a friendly neighbor who teaches them to drive a hitch of Belgian workhorses keep Kat and Andy from missing the city. Then Andy spots a forlorn boy, Jacob, who mysteriously announces that someone has stolen his bed. At first, no one else seems to see Jacob, who appears and disappears rapidly; before long, Andy and Kat realize that the boy is a ghost. They get the community involved in piecing together Jacob's story, returning him to his rightful bed and uncovering the buried treasure secreted in his grave. This competent novel begins slowly; readerslike Kat and Andyare drawn into the community until they realize that Jacob's trouble concerns them all. Light entertainment, this has moments of real shock: one involves the discovery of a child's skeleton, buried under rocks. Ages 9-12.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Grade 5-7 While helping their mother run their uncle's Oregon mountain vacation lodge for the summer, twelve-year-old fraternal twins Kat and Andy become aware of Jacob, a ghostly nine year old who claims that his bed has been sto len. The twins unravel the mystery of who Jacob is, what ``bed'' he is refer ring to, and how to restore it to him, while at the same time learning to ap preciate rural small town life. McGraw writes with a deft but leisurely style. Characters are well drawn, and the por trait of the small town in which every one minds everyone else's business is humorous and on target. It is refresh ing, if not totally convincing, to read of siblings who uncomplainingly pitch in, work long hours at physically taxing chores, and are understanding and sup portive of one another. Unfortunately, the plot moves slowly. Kat and Andy's busy life at the lodge leaves them little time to pursue the mystery of Jacob's bed. The ghost boy dilemma is almost forgotten by readers, as it is by Andy and Kat. Once Jacob's skeleton is found, the children are primarily ob servers as the adults argue about what to do; realistic perhaps, but not very satisfying. Setting a ghost's earthly problem to rights to enable the ghost to rest is a popular theme treated with sus pense in Betty Ren Wright's Chris tina's Ghost (Holiday, 1985) and humor in Penelope Lively's The Revenge of Samuel Stokes (Dutton, 1981). Here the ghost seems almost peripheral and the story too slow moving to appeal to middle grade readers. Louise L. Sher man, Anna C. Scott School, Leonia, N.J.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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