Synopses & Reviews
Move over, Christmas Carol—
heres a new holiday ghost story!It's Christmas Eve, and Kayes family is on the way to her grandmothers house in a swirling snowstorm. Suddenly the car hits a patch of ice. It slides across the road and skids into a snow-filled ditch! Through the car window, Kaye spots a light in the woods. Its glow leads her and her parents through the blizzard. They find a warm cabin and a kindly old woman named Elsa. And Kaye finds something else—a green ghost who needs her help!
Newbery Honor-winning author Marion Dane Bauer spins a third spooky tale to complement her previous stories, The Blue Ghost and The Red Ghost.
Synopsis
IN 1938, A GIRL named Lillian knows that the most beautiful pine tree in the forest is the one thing that will make her Christmas special. In 2008, Kaye's family's car slides off the road in a Christmas Eve blizzard and they have to seek out shelter in the snowy woods. Seventy years separate them, but Lillian and Kaye's paths are ready to cross when Kaye looks out the car window and spots a ghostly face glowing brightly through the falling snow. . . .Newbery Honor-winning author Marion Dane Bauer spins a third spooky tale to complement her previous stories, The Blue Ghost and The Red Ghost.
From the Hardcover edition.
About the Author
Marion Dane Bauer is the author of more than forty books for children. The companion to
The Green Ghost, The Blue Ghost was named to the Texas Bluebonnet Master List for 2007-2008 and to the Sunshine State Award list. Her Stepping Stones mystery,
The Secret of the Painted House, was named a CCBC Childrens Choices Book. She lives in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
Peter Ferguson also illustrated The Red Ghost. He is currently living in Argentina.