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Title | The Ghost in the Third Row
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Author | Bruce Coville
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Title | The Ghost Wore Gray
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Author | Bruce Coville
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Cover Art | Dave Henderson
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Publisher | Skylark Books - 1988
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Title | The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed
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Author | Bruce Coville
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Cover Art | David Henderson
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Publisher | Skylark Books - 1991
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 The Ghost Wore Gray
"What a hunk! Too bad he's dead..."
Sixth-grader Nina Tanleven convinces her architect father to let her best friend Chris go with them to stay in the old inn he's restoring. On the afternoon they arrive, the girld find a faded Civil War photograph of a very handsome Confederate soldier. Nina and Chris are stunned when the ghost of the young soldier suddenly appears at the dinner table that night! They realize he's the ghost who they've heard haunts the inn.
When he appears to them again - no one else can see him - Nina and Chris know that the ghost is trying to tell them something. But what? To find out, the girls begin investigating the old country inn. And soon they are swept up in a frightening mystery that began more than one hundred years ago - a mystery involving danger, greed, a hidden room...and a buried treasure!
The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed
Phoebe Watson's house was haunted - very haunted!
When sixth grader Nina Tanleven starts working at an antiques shop, she never expects to stumble onto a mystery - or into danger. But that's exactly what happens when she and her best friend, Chris, go to pick up an antique wardrobe at old Miss Watson's. From the moment the girls set foot in the run-down mansion, they sense that it's haunted - even before they discover the tower room with its big brass bed and grieving little girl ghost!
But the tower room isn't the only place holding secrets. In the parlor there's a gruesome painting, which seems to have a terrible hold over Nina. Could there be a connection between it and the ghostly child crying upstairs? As Nina and Chris begin investigating, a second ghost puts in an eerie appearance. The girls realize this could be the biggest ghost-busting adventure of their lives - if they survive!
These are fun books if you're looking for a little more substance to them than the Goosebumps series. Though I have not read the first in the series, I'm sure its as good as the other two. And you can start from the second, or even the third without having read the ones which came before, though reference to earlier books are made. Perhaps Coville should give up on his Unicorn Chronicles and return to the world of Nina and Chris.
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