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Griffin, Peni. R.
THE GHOST SITTER
New York : Dutton, 2001.
IL 5-8, RL 6.9
ISBN 0525466762
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10-year-old Susie does not understand why her parents and sister left their house and have not returned. Unfortunately, Susie does not realize that she was killed in a firecracker accident 50 years ago. While waiting for her own family to return, other families move in and out of the house. When Charlotte and her family move in, she starts communicating with Susie. Charlotte soon understands that Susie will not be able to stop haunting the house until she confronts her own death.  (Sunshine State Young Reader’s Award Program, 2004-2005)
SUBJECTS:     Ghosts -- Fiction.
                     Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.

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