Books with title The Christmas Ghost

Seeing ghosts...Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield are looking forward to the most glorious Christmas ever. The tree is trimmed, the presents are wrapped, and movie star Beau Dillon is coming to town! The actor, who'll be in Sweet Valley to publicize his new movie, has agreed to help Elizabeth raise money for children's wing of the local hospital. But when the teen star arrives at the Wakefields' house, it's Jessica, not Elizabeth, he meets.What's the harm in pretending to be your twin? No harm, Jessica thinks--until strange things start happening and three ghostly visitors appear. Is Jessica's imagination working overtime or have the spirits of Christmas past, present, and future come to teach Jessica the lesson of a lifetime?

Two children find goodwill and acceptance in unexpected places — even in the hardest of times — in a moving tale from a master picturebook creator.In 1930s Liverpool, where streetcars clang on iron tracks, young Bronwen and Dylan live with their widowed Mam. Every day, in the wee hours of morning, Mam leaves the two alone as she gathers other people’s laundry to boil in a big metal copper at home. At night, if she’s not too tired, Mam tells fanciful tales of dragons and ghosties, and on Sunday, she cautions the children about the O’Rileys next door, who go to a church that is not for their kind. But on Christmas Eve, when Mam must go out, Bronwen and Dylan hear a ghostly plonk! plonk! plonk! from the washroom that sends them running straight into the arms of Mrs. O’Riley. Not only do they find that the house next door harbors nothing to fear, but it may hold a blessing for Mam, too. With evocative drawings full of compelling detail, Shirley Hughes tells a timeless, genuine tale of community and human kindness.

Acclaimed children’s author V. R. Duin does it again in The Goopy Ghost at Christmas, a brightly illustrated picture book for young and beginning readers. With the rhyming verse of The Amazing Flight of Little Ray and the eerie fun introduced in The Goopy Ghost, readers will revel in another unforgettable adventure. This time snow is on the ground and there’s a tree in the house. Goopy Ghost can’t figure it out. While Goopy’s not much of a milk drinker, the cookies were a great find and fuel for the ghost to begin helping with the decorations. Lilly, the little girl whose house is being haunted, wants the ghost to stay, but Goopy gets a chance to jump into a mysterious bag and takes it. Little does Goopy know that it’s Santa’s and that once Santa’s sleigh is in flight there’s no stopping it. When Santa’s elves get into the “spirit” of the season, there’s even more fun to be had.

From Rhys Bowen, the author of In Farleigh Field, comes the next Molly Murphy mystery: The Ghost of Christmas Past. Semi-retired private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is suffering from depression after a miscarriage following her adventure in San Francisco during the earthquake of 1906. She and her husband, Daniel, are invited for Christmas at a mansion on the Hudson, and they gratefully accept, expecting a peaceful and relaxing holiday season. Not long after they arrive, however, they start to feel the tension in the house's atmosphere. Then they learn that the host couple's young daughter wandered out into the snow ten years ago and was never seen again. Molly can identify with the mother's pain at never knowing what happened to her child and wants to help, but there is so little to go on. No ransom note. No body ever found. But Molly slowly begins to suspect that the occupants of the house know more than they are letting on. Then, on Christmas Eve, there is a knock at the door and a young girl stands there. "I'm Charlotte," she says. "I've come home."

"Semi-retired private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is suffering from depression after a miscarriage following her adventure San Francisco during the earthquake of 1906. She and her husband, Daniel, are invited for Christmas at a mansion on the Hudson, and they gratefully accept, expecting a peaceful and relaxing holiday season. long after they arrive, however, they start to feel the tension in the house's atmosphere. Then they learn that the host couple's young daughter wandered out into the snow ten years ago and was never seen again. Molly can identify with the mother's pain at never knowing what happened to her child and wants to help, but there is so little to go on. No ransom note. No body ever found. But Molly slowly begins to suspect that the occupants of the house know more than they are letting on. Then, on Christmas Eve, there is a knock at the door and a young girl stands there. 'I'm Charlotte, ' she says. 'I've come home'"--

Acclaimed children’s author V. R. Duin does it again in The Goopy Ghost at Christmas, a brightly illustrated picture book for young and beginning readers. With the rhyming verse of The Amazing Flight of Little Ray and the eerie fun introduced in The Goopy Ghost, readers will revel in another unforgettable adventure. This time snow is on the ground and there’s a tree in the house. Goopy Ghost can’t figure it out. While Goopy’s not much of a milk drinker, the cookies were a great find and fuel for the ghost to begin helping with the decorations. Lilly, the little girl whose house is being haunted, wants the ghost to stay, but Goopy gets a chance to jump into a mysterious bag and takes it. Little does Goopy know that it’s Santa’s and that once Santa’s sleigh is in flight there’s no stopping it. When Santa’s elves get into the “spirit” of the season, there’s even more fun to be had.

Two children find goodwill and acceptance in unexpected places—even in the hardest of times—in a moving tale from a master picturebook creator.In 1930s Liverpool, where streetcars clang on iron tracks, young Bronwen and Dylan live with their widowed Mam. Every day, in the wee hours of morning, Mam leaves the two alone as she gathers other people’s laundry to boil in a big metal copper at home. At night, if she’s not too tired, Mam tells fanciful tales of dragons and ghosties, and on Sunday, she cautions the children about the O’Rileys next door, who go to a church that is not for their kind. But on Christmas Eve, when Mam must go out, Bronwen and Dylan hear a ghostly plonk! plonk! plonk! from the washroom that sends them running straight into the arms of Mrs. O’Riley. Not only do they find that the house next door harbors nothing to fear, but it may hold a blessing for Mam, too. With evocative drawings full of compelling detail, Shirley Hughes tells a timeless, genuine tale of community and human kindness.