Ghost of Cutler Creek

Cynthia C. DeFelice. Farrar Straus Giroux, $16 (192pp) ISBN 978-0-374-38058-8

Sixth-grade sleuth and ""ghost magnet"" Allie Nichols returns in The Ghost of Cutler Creek by Cynthia DeFelice. As in The Ghost of Fossil Glen and The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs, Allie and her friend Dub solve earthly mysteries to help a ghost rest in peace. This time, the ghost (which communicates only in whimpers and moans) wasn't human in life.

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