Reviews for Ghost Fever%2FMal de Fantasma

by Joe Hayes

School Library Journal
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Gr 4-6-Unlike some of Hayes's other work, this book is one stand-alone story, presented bilingually, with the Spanish and English on the same page. The storyteller's voice is its strongest asset: "This one happened way back in the 1950's in Duston, Arizona, which is the town I grew up in." Cole Cash is a shop owner in the community, who also makes money renting houses that are "across the tracks." But there is one empty house that he probably shouldn't have bought. Finally there is a taker, and when 14 year-old Elena moves in with her dad, she soon meets the ghost of one of the previous owners of the house, a young girl named Mariana Mendoza, who died in a tragic accident after stealing money from her parents for her quincenera dress. After this encounter Elena comes down with a high fever and it's up to her abuela to make things right. Luckily, her grandmother knows how to deal with ghosts. (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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