Ghost Town: Seven Ghostly Stories

By Joan Lowery Nixon

Book Overview

Stagecoach robberies. Shoot-outs. Striking it rich. Throughout the Wild West small towns were formed, thriving with men and women from the East and gold from the mines. Notorious outlaws, desperadoes,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385326815
• ISBN13: 9780385326810
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.6" x 5.8"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Nice, entertaining read

The kids' dialogues echo my own kid's whining, so I chuckled during most of the stories. Each story has a nice lesson. The stories are nice, for the most part. A couple are mildly creepy. I like the history in each story as well.

A chilling collection of western ghost stories.

Each of the seven stories in this book has as its setting a different western ghost town and is about a kid's encounter with a ghost or ghosts in that town. The seven towns are Tombstone, Arizona; Shakespeare, New Mexico; Maiden, Montana; Virginia City, Nevada; Grafton, Utah; Bodie, California; and Fort Griffin, Texas. My two favorites in the collection were Buried (set in Shakespeare) and The Magic Eye (set in Grafton), which certainly taught the lesson to be careful what you wish for! I would reccomend this collection to kids who enjoy reading ghost stories or who are interested in ghost towns.