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167 pp.
| Farrar |
January, 1998 |
TradeISBN 0-374-31787-9
(2)
4-6
In this tightly packed, swiftly moving mystery, sixth-grader Allie Nichols encounters the ghost of Lucy Stiles and becomes involved with Lucy's unsolved death, eventually finding proof that Lucy was murdered. The plot evolves logically, the villain hovers appropriately in the wings until his dramatic entrance, and everything is wrapped up neatly, but not predictably.