I really like how the story takes place in the early part of the 1900s, so no cell phones or computers or video games, and the characters talk with a southern drawl.įun and easy read about a different time and place, where kids can be kids. But strange things really are happening there. He thinks his friend Blossom Culp is trying to spook him. And he gets help along the way from his neighbor, Blossom Culp, who is like the poor man's Nancy Drew.Īnyway, the story is a little different from the movie (from what I remember) but it's enjoyable none-the-less. The Ghost Belonged to Me Peck, Richard Lexile & Reading Level: Synopsis: Only Alexander knows why the barn is haunted-and by what When Alexander notices an eerie light coming out of the barn. He becomes a mini-celebrity, which he doesn't like, and then he has to figure out how to help the ghost rest in peace. The ghost, a girl his age but from a different time, tells him about a disaster that's about to happen and Alexander is able to save some town people from imminent death because of the warning. This book was fun to read and had a lot of scary (not too scary) moments in it as teenager Alexander Armsworth finds a ghost haunting his family's barn. I wanted to read Richard Peck's THE GHOST BELONGED TO ME because I heard this was the book that Disney based the TV movie-( Child of Glass -on.
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