The Haunting of Cabin 13 - Softcover

Holl, Kristi

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ISBN 10: 0880924268 ISBN 13: 9780880924269

Publisher: Royal Fireworks Pr, 1997

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Thirteen-year-old Laurie, her family, and her best friend, Jenny, plan to spend a weeks vacation in Cabin #13 at the lake in rustic Backbone Park. But the first night, a ghost named Eleanor begins leaving notes warning the vacationers not to stay.

Soon, the girls meet teenage brothers Matt and Kevin from cabin #14. Their introduction is more than bumpy as Jenny thoroughly enrages Matt with condescending comments about his confinement to a wheelchair. Nevertheless, the four soon join forces to find out more about the notes.

Ranger Roberts tells them that Eleanor, who was also thirteen and occupied Cabin #13, died the previous summer in a boating accident during the week she was there. He also talks about the strange bobbing lights around the woods and over the water, and the Indian artifacts which he has been finding.

A series of notes, coded messages, a canoe accident that was engineered, and information from Eleanors sister, now incognito, add more clues to the simmering plot that comes to a boil when Laurie deduces the connection between the weird happenings and Ranger Roberts goal to make Backbone an important and popular park.

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Grade 4-7 Laurie, her family, and best friend plan to spend a restful week in Cabin 13 at a state park. Instead, a threatening note greets them and warns them that the place is haunted. The note is signed by Eleanor, who had died the summer before in a drowning accident. Eerie lights and additional notes strongly suggest the presence of ghosts. Laurie, an amateur detective, investigates. Within a week she discovers how Eleanor drowned and who is sending the threats and why. She also befriends a handicapped teenaged boy. Laurie is a level-headed heroine who makes her nervous mother and boy-crazy friend look silly. She doesn't believe in ghosts, and soon readers will be just as skeptical. Thus, the book lacks the terrifying suspense of a true ghost story, such as Hahn's Wait Till Helen Comes (Clarion, 1986). However, ``who-done-it'' fans will find enough suspects (an arrogant lifeguard, a friendly park ranger, and Eleanor's sister) and adventures to keep the plot moving along. Although the book is about teenagers, the literary style is aimed at the upper elementary readers. Holl's book is an additional purchase for the mystery shelves. Judy Greenfield, Rye Free Reading Room, N.Y.
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