The Green Ghost

Move over,Christmas Carolhere's a new holiday ghost story! It's Christmas Eve, and Kaye's family is on the way to her grandmother's house in a swirling snowstorm. Suddenly the car hits a patch of ice. It slides across the road and skids into a snow-filled ditch! Through the car window, Kaye spots a light in the woods. Its glow leads her and her parents through the blizzard. They find a warm cabin and a kindly old woman named Elsa. And Kaye finds something elsea green ghost who needs her help! Newbery Honorwinning author Marion Dane Bauer spins a third spooky tale to complement her previous stories,The Blue GhostandThe Red Ghost.

Marion Dane Bauer is the author of more than 40 books for children, including the Newbery Honor Book On My Honor and Rain of Fire, which won a Jane Adams Peace Association Award. She has also won the Kerlan Award for the body of her work. The companion to The Red Ghost and The Green Ghost, The Blue Ghost was named to the Texas Bluebonnet Master List. She lives in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

Peter Ferguson also illustrated The Red Ghost. He is currently living in Argentina.


From the Hardcover edition.