Rec from Paige

Read it twice and didn't like it either time. ( )

NOTE: Elaine started this book, reluctantly, at the request of the publisher who wanted to capitalize on the success of The Ghost Cadet. However, once she had the assignment, the story began to take shape and became "her own" as much as the others. ( )

This story is about a suffered child, call Alexander. He lives with his father, and his mother leave them three years ago. He think that, the reason why his mother go was because his father break up with h, so he blame on his father and live resent with him. His father want to go to North Carolina to visit his dad girlfriend and his sons. Alexander did´t want to go there because maybe his mother could return to home, but his father forces him. there he learn how to distract all of his angry, he meet a ghost call Richeson,a soldier of civil war dead in battle, he show all the things of civil war and tell his history and teach many things that help alexander to understand the departure of his mother, and forget the resent with his father he take away his past, and begin to look forward for other things with his father.

new words
breathless(adj):Breathing with difficulty; gasping. I felt breathless and drained (page 15)
widened v:to make or become wide or wider. the boy´s eyes widened(page47)
stride v:To walk with long steps, especially in a hasty or vigorous way.He seemed to be taking it all in stride(page 96)
sort n: A group of persons or things of the same general character; a kind. it was´t the sort of journal that we keep at school(page 138).
neat adj:Orderly and clean; tidy.

Juan Pablo Castaño D.
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