My Brother's Ghost

By Allan Ahlberg

Book Overview

Frances Fogarty remembers her childhood in the 1950's, and the terrible moment when her life changes forever. In a series of scenes from her childhood, she tells of her unusual relationship with her brother Tom and the hardships of daily life, growing up an orphan in the cold household of an unloving aunt.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670892904
• ISBN13: 9780670892907
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Viking Childrens Books
• Length: 87 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.3" x 0.5" x 4.5"
• Age Range: 11 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 6 and higher

Customer Reviews

Emotionally moving

For those who like to cry, and for those who don't, this is a wonderful, emotionally moving, fictious, first-person story about what happens after the death of the narrator's brother.I checked this small book out of the local library because I liked the cover design and title-it was something different. With that much to go on, I started reading. I had only planned to read the beginning-having a tight schedule that day-nothing more, but could not, would not put it down. The book was an amazing story giving readers a fictious glimpse into the afterlife on two fronts, not only some of the afterlife of the brother, but the afterlife of the narrator and how she copes with the loss of her brother. Having lost my dear father to death three years ago, I found myself sobbing by the end of the book. For me, the book stirred up forgotten grief as I identified with the narrator. More than that, I will not tell. Read it yourself and do remember the tissue.