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#The ghost in the tokaido inn summary by chapters series
Part of a series of ghostly mystery stories that will eventually include one mystery ghost story set in each of the fifty states. Locked Doors: A Pameroy Mystery in Wisconsin by Brenda Felber. The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn by Dorothy Hoobler.
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The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing by Sheila Turnage But he has to take on the mystery of an inn he and his father were. The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1) by Jonathan Stroud, and sequels. In the distant past of China a 14 year old boy named Seikei is trying to become a samurai. The Court of the Stone Children by Eleanor Cameron. Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce. The Swallow: A Ghost Story by Charis Cotter. If you like this book, there are several other middle grade ghost stories you might want to check out: I didn’t like the quick perspective changes, but I did enjoy the story in spite of them. Is one of the two girls a ghost from the past or from the future? Did Claire’s sister, Annie, die in an accident, and was she reincarnated as a present day Annie? Or is Annie’s mom in the hospital really Claire’s mom, too, or Annie-who-died’s mom or only Annie’s mom or what? As long as you’re OK with ghostly time travel and very short chapters that change perspective back and forth from Annie to Claire and back to Annie again, this book is a winner. The Painting is a convoluted, time-slip, mother/daughter ghost story that kept me guessing until the very end. Depending on the study guide provider (SparkNotes, Shmoop, etc. Among the summaries and analysis available for The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn, there is 2 Book Reviews. And Annie knows she is not a ghost, but why is she able to enter into an old painting and talk to Claire, a girl who lives in a different time? Does the painting have anything to with Annie’s mom’s car accident and the coma that she is struggling to emerge from? If there is a The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn SparkNotes, Shmoop guide, or Cliff Notes, you can find a link to each study guide below. When Claire and Annie meet, Claire thinks Annie is the ghost of her dead sister, also named Annie. They’re both about the same age, and they both believe in ghosts.
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Claire misses her home in the city, and she wants to pursue her education in a good school back in the city.Īnnie and Claire, however, do share some things in common. Claire’s mother is an artist, and she loves living in a lighthouse near the ocean in Newfoundland.
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But all around him, the adults are talking about the war that is raging through much of Europe. When he isn’t in school, he spends the cold days outside, going sledding in the deep snow of his mountain village. Her mother believes in facts and lists and academic success.Ĭlaire and her mother don’t see things the same way either. For 12-year-old Peter Lundstrom, the Norwegian winter of 1940 begins like any other. Annie likes to look at picture books and imagine and sketch pictures she doesn’t care about schoolwork. Annie and her mother don’t really understand one another.