The Ghost in the Attic by Dori Hillestad Butler

Author:Dori Hillestad Butler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2014-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

“Hey, aren’t you the girl who was at my neighbor’s house yesterday?” the boy asked. He had lots of dots on his face. “What’s your name?”

“Claire.”

Kaz glanced nervously at the fan in the ceiling. Fans were like the Outside wind, except they blew you around in circles and made you sick.

“I’m Eli,” the boy said. “Why were you at Mrs. Beesley’s house? Are you related to her or something?”

“No. She hired me to do a job,” Claire said.

“What job?” Eli asked.

Claire hesitated for a second. Then she said, “She hired me to find her ghost.”

Eli burst out laughing.

“What?” Claire frowned. “What’s so funny?”

“Did you find a ghost?” Eli asked, still laughing.

Claire put her hand on her hip. “As a matter of fact, I did.”

“Really?” Eli’s eyebrow shot up. “You found a ghost at her house? A real, live ghost?”

Claire shrugged. “I solved her problem. I don’t expect you to understand.”

“I bet you didn’t. Solve her problem, I mean,” Eli said. “Mrs. Beesley’s problems are never solved. Whenever she hires me to do something, she makes me come back ten times and do it all over again.” He grinned. “But I always get even.”

“What do you mean?” Claire asked.

This conversation with Eli wasn’t helping them find Cosmo, so Kaz decided to keep looking by himself.

There was still one room he and Claire hadn’t searched: the craft room.

But Cosmo wasn’t in there, either. He didn’t seem to be anywhere in the library.

So where was he?

Kaz swallowed hard. If Cosmo wasn’t anywhere inside the library, then . . . he must be outside the library.

Maybe when he and Thor had been chasing each other during the night, Cosmo had accidentally passed through the wall into the Outside. That was exactly what happened to Kaz’s brother Finn that horrible day when he, Kaz, and Little John had been playing Keep Away back at their old haunt.

Kaz floated back to the main hallway and over to a big bay window. He peered into the Outside, but he didn’t see Cosmo. Kaz wasn’t surprised. By now, the wind would’ve blown Cosmo away.

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