My Never Ending List

This was really good! With a broken-down bus, scarecrows, ghosts and a mysterious book, I thought this book had an excellent storyline connecting the present with the past.

 

Since the synopsis is long and detailed, I won’t go into the whole story. I found myself flipping pages as Ollie begins reading from the book, Small Spaces, that she obtained from the lady at the river. As she reads about the cunning deal that was arranged with the Smiling Man, it was as if I was reading a fairy tale. Later, as her classmates’ head out for their field trip, conversation begins about the farm’s history. Their destination today is a farm that is said to be haunted. As they describe the details of this haunting, my excitement raced as these specifics sound similar to the book that Ollie was reading. Is their bus headed to a haunted farm that is connected to the Smiling Man?

 

This book is labeled as a middle school read but I feel that some mature elementary school students would enjoy getting their hands on it. It’s not graphic, just creepy and spooky, it’s a haunting read.