Mystery and explanation
Jamie and Lorna believe mysterious things are happening in the family’s new house, while Professor Carver insists it cannot be haunted.
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Clyde Robert Bulla - Author
A gently suspenseful ghost mystery combines a family’s new country home, local legends and friendships with Miss Miggie and Bruno. The atmosphere becomes darker before the story reaches its promised “happy day” ending.
A strange and exciting adventure began for the Carver Family when they moved into the house on Windy Hill. Was it truly a haunted house? Professor Carver insisted that it could not be, but Jamie and Lorna knew that mysterious things were happening there. It was fun to live in the country, though. The whole family loved the big old house with its lookout tower, and the woods and the fields around it. Jamie and Lorna made friends with the elusive Miss Miggie and with the lonely beggar boy Bruno who sat with his goat at the crossroads. Then one dark night it seemed as though all the legends of Windy Hill might indeed be true. Clyde Robert Bulla has written a suspenseful tale that ends, as Miss Miggie would say, with a "happy day", and Don Bolognese has captured its special flavor in pictures that perfectly match the story's strength and simplicity.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA gently suspenseful ghost mystery combines a family’s new country home, local legends and friendships with Miss Miggie and Bruno. The atmosphere becomes darker before the story reaches its promised “happy day” ending.
Jamie and Lorna believe mysterious things are happening in the family’s new house, while Professor Carver insists it cannot be haunted.
The Carver family begins an adventure after moving into Windy Hill, and the family enjoys the old house, lookout tower, woods and fields.
Notice how Jamie and Lorna respond to uncertainty, and how the story presents Miss Miggie and Bruno. You could also discuss how suspense changes when the night-time events seem to confirm local legends.
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