Age
12+
Grade
7-9
Richard W. Jennings
Ghost Town
Hardcover
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt June 29, 2009)
, 1 edition
Spencer Adams Honesty may be the last best hope for Paisley, Kansasand for lonely kids everywhere.
Spencer Honesty and his mom are the last people left in Paisley, except for Chief Leopard Frog, Spences imaginary friend. One lonely day, Chief Leopard Frogs carved rabbit talisman tells Spence to take his photo, so Spence digs up his late fathers camera and starts shooting photographs all around his ghost town. When the photos come back developed, he does not expect to see his old neighbor Maureen Balderson in her bedroom. Or Ma Puttering clearing weeds in her yard. They arent in Paisley anymore. Yet there they are.
What happens to Spence next is unexpected. It involves a catalog called Uncle Miltons Thousand Things You Thought Youd Never Find, a poetry deal gone awry, and a ghost camera that promises to take pictures of the past (just be sure not to photograph yourself).
- ISBN
- 0547194714 / 9780547194714
- Pages
- 167
- Weight
- 12.8 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.5
in.