The Ghost of Fossil Glen

While fossil hunting, Allie comes close to falling off a dangerous cliff. An unknown voice keeps her calm and talks her to a safer position. Allie senses that someone or something is trying to contact her and the discovery of a grave marker and a journal pique her curiosity. Because Allie's family and friends know she exaggerates, only her close friend Dub believes her. They follow a path leading to the grave of a young girl killed almost four years earlier. Allie's attempt to investigate Lucy Stiles's death puts her own life in jeopardy with a greedy land developer.

CYNTHIA DEFELICE has written many acclaimed novels for children, including contemporary and historical fiction and mysteries such as Under the Same Sky, Bringing Ezra Back, and The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker. Her next book, Signal, will be available from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in Fall 2009. Cynthia lives in upstate New York. Visit her on the web at www.cynthiadefelice.com.

“An imaginative and adventurous sixth grader makes a connection with the ghost of the victim of an unsolved murder and puts her own life in jeopardy to find the killer. . . . Fans of ghost stories by Betty Ren Wright and Mary Downing Hahn will find this excellent book difficult to put down.”—School Library Journal, Starred Review
“[A] beautifully crafted thriller. . . . A dynamic page-turner that never gives readers the chance to become distracted or lose interest. It’s another fine title from a fine author.”—Booklist