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Naylor,
Phyllis Reynolds.
JADE GREEN : A GHOST STORY
New York : Atheneum, 1999.
IL 5-8, RL 6.4
ISBN 0689820054
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Judith
Sparrow arrives in Whispers, a town close to Charleston, SC one month after
her mother dies in an insane asylum. Her father had been dead for years,
so she has to be taken in by her Uncle Geoffrey. The cook, Mrs. Hastings,
is warm and welcoming, but Uncle Geoffrey is distant and demands only one
thing: Judith is to bring no green into the house. Her life is good, at
first. She works at a hat shop, gets along with Mrs. Hastings, and even
begins to get close to her uncle and the cute Zeke Carey. Only two things
begin to ruin her time: Her creepy cousin Charles, and the constant reminder
of a mysterious death in the house three years earlier, that of Jade Green,
the young girl who wore green and was found dead at the foot of the attic
stairs. Strange things begin to happen to Judith and she knows it’s because
of the green silk picture frame her mother gave her. It is in the bottom
of her trunk. First there’s the scratching. Then, there’s the soft touch
on her face. Then, the severed hand appears. Who can she tell? What can
she do? Who locked her and Mrs. Hastings in the basement and set the house
on fire? Was it the ghost of Jade Green? Read the book, Jade Green: A Ghost
Story by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. (Lori A. Somerville, somervll@pickens.k12.sc.us) |
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SUBJECTS:
Haunted houses -- Fiction.
Ghosts -- Fiction.
Orphans -- Fiction.
Uncles -- Fiction. |
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