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Alphin,
Elaine Marie
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GHOST CADET
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New York : Henry Holt and Co.,
1991.
IL 5-8 RL 7.2 .
ISBN
0590452444
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This story takes place at the
New Market Battlefield in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Benjy Stark
is visiting his grandmother in the town of New Market when he meets a ghost
named Cadet William Hugh McDowell who was killed in the battle of New Market
during the Civil War. Hugh is haunted by the fact that he lost his grandfather’s
gold watch during the battle - a family heirloom that was intended to be
passed down to future generations. Here is Benjy talking to the Ghost Cadet:
(Read some of pages 67-68). (Odile Heisel.
oheisel@pen.k12.va.us, Library Media Specialist, Plains Elementary
School , 225 American Legion Rd., Timberville, VA 22853)
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SUBJECTS: New
Market (Va.), Battle of, 1864 -- Fiction
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns -- Fiction
Ghosts -- Fiction
Grandmothers -- Fiction |
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