Books with title Ghosts Beneath Our Feet

Something chilling lurks underground, and two step-siblings must unite to uncover the truth in this “engrossing mystery” (Booklist). Katie knows that something eerie is happening in the old, deserted town where she, her stepbrother, and her newly widowed mother are spending the summer taking care of Uncle Frank. Sometimes, when Katie puts her ear to the ground in Uncle Frank’s backyard, she hears a groaning noise that sounds almost human. But when a crippled ghost-girl appears to her out of the gloom in an abandoned mine, Katie is at once terrified and puzzled. Could the girl’s chilling appearance have something to do with a tragic mining accident thirty years before? In a fiery climax, Katie and her rebellious stepbrother learn the truth about the past and discover things about each other that strengthen their fragile relationship.

'As we stealthily threaded our way between the ghostly giants, I wondered why they had gathered here. Together. And how they had come to this silent end. Considering their enormous size and their reputation for ferocity in life, it did not occur to me some creature even more fearsome might be the author of their destruction. That was a truth that descended on us without warning!'Bugs. They outnumber us 200 million to one. And there are 124 million of them in an acre of ground. Some are true super-heroes, like leaf-cutter ants, and real medical miracle-workers, like death-stalker scorpions. Yet, we know little about them, mostly unaware they are even there. But from a bug’s-eye view of their hidden realm, they loom larger than life for readers of every age. While the narrative is science fiction, its description of insect behaviors is science fact.

'As we stealthily threaded our way between the ghostly giants, I wondered why they had gathered here. Together. And how they had come to this silent end. Considering their enormous size and their reputation for ferocity in life, it did not occur to me some creature even more fearsome might be the author of their destruction. That was a truth that descended on us without warning!'Bugs. They outnumber us 200 million to one. And there are 124 million of them in an acre of ground. Some are true super-heroes, like leaf-cutter ants, and real medical miracle-workers, like death-stalker scorpions. Yet, we know little about them, mostly unaware they are even there. But from a bug’s-eye view of their hidden realm, they loom larger than life for readers of every age. While the narrative is science fiction, its description of insect behaviors is science fact.