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Cusick, Richie Tankersley
TRICK OR TREAT
New York : Scholastic, 1990.
IL YA
ISBN 059044235X
 (Hi my name is Alise. I'm an 8th grader at Musselman Middle School and I want to tell you about my booktalk)

                     "Trick or Treat" was written by Richie Tankersley Cusick is about this girl Martha whose dad just married this women who also has a son, Conor. They move into this house called, "The Old Bedford." It's a couple of miles away from the town they live in. Martha has had these weird feelings about something or someone being in her room. Their parents go off on their honeymoon in Hawaii. The two are left all alone in this big, old house. Martha goes to school and meets three new people - Greg, Wynn and Blake Chambers. It's almost Halloween and everyone is afraid because of what had happened last year on Halloween. Everyone stares at Martha because she looks like her. If you love reading about ghosts and mystery novels like me, then you might want to get this book. Trick or Treat!!  (Alise, student, Musselman Middle School. Bunker Hill, WV dbjenkin@access.k12.wv.us)

SUBJECTS:     Mystery and detective stories.

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