The Blue Ghost by Marion Dane Bauer

Author:Marion Dane Bauer [Bauer, Marion Dane]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780307514684
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2005-05-08T21:00:00+00:00

The whole time Liz swam, she kept thinking about the trunk. Something important must be in there!

But when she and Gran returned to the house, Gran couldn’t find the right key. She found several keys in a dresser drawer in the small bedroom. None of them fit.

Gran laid a hand on the curved lid. “It’s strange. I don’t remember ever looking inside. Still … I keep thinking that whatever is in here must be important.”

Reluctantly, they decided to sort out the closets instead. One was filled with games like Monopoly and Scrabble. Some of those they packed up to go to Gran’s house in the city. Others they put back on the shelves.

“Whoever buys this place will enjoy them on rainy days,” Gran said.

With every box they packed, Gran seemed to grow quieter.

“I wish you didn’t have to sell the house,” Liz said at last.

Gran smiled, but the smile seemed sad. “It’s time,” she said. “Your parents have their own lake cabin. Who would use this old place?”

Liz had to admit she liked her parents’ cabin best. Still, she wished she could take away Gran’s sadness. The best she could think of was to make them both chocolate-ripple ice cream cones. Their favorite. She heaped the ice cream high, and they sat on the back steps and licked and licked.

A chipmunk with lumpy cheeks ran in and out from under the house. He was carrying seeds to store. “I hope the new people like chipmunks,” Liz said.

“And raccoons,” Gran added. “Not to mention a bear or two. The ones who are too fierce to be scared off by raccoons.”

They both laughed.

And ghosts, Liz thought. But she didn’t say that.

That night after Liz went to bed, it happened again. There she was … suddenly awake and sitting up in the middle of the bed, not knowing what had awakened her.

When Liz heard the strange noise, the skin on her arms pricked into goose bumps.

The sound was hard to describe and impossible to identify. A breathy screech? A whistle being sucked on instead of blown? She had never heard anything quite like it before.

Something about it said trouble, though. Serious trouble. Liz leapt out of bed. Her toe hit the wall. She doubled over, grabbing her foot to squeeze away the pain.

“Elizabeth,” whispered a voice. “Elizabeth!”

When Liz straightened, the blue woman stood before her. She seemed to be halfway through the wall. She lifted a hand for Liz to follow.

Without even considering that she had any other choice, Liz did.

She hadn’t taken more than three steps, though, before the blue woman vanished. Without her light, the darkness was total. Liz couldn’t even see the bed she had left behind. The breathy, whistling sound, however, grew louder, closer. In addition to the whistle, now she heard a murmuring voice.

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