The 13th Floor A Ghost Story

It keeps your attention and is hard to put the book down.

The 13th floor a ghost story. A ghost story by sid fleischman peter sís paperback barnes noble. The author uses the clever idea of time travel to make this possible. This book is a wonderful story about a boy around my sons age already something to spark his interest and it combines the historical aspect through pirate activity and the witch trials of the time period with more modern characters and ideas.

Our stores are openbook annexmembershipeducatorsgift cardsstores eventshelp. When liz stebbins a beginning lawyer raising her younger brother bud alone after their parents die receives a mysterious phone message from a relative who died over 300 years ago she thinks it s a joke. The 13th floor a ghost story is a well written very entertaining read.

When buddy stebbins stumbles onto the thirteenth floor of a shabby old building he finds himself suddenly transported aboard a leaking pirate ship in a howling storm three hundred years in the past. The 13th floor is not so much a ghost story as it is a story of time travelling adventure. There s a resident of the 13th floor that we haven t glimpsed before and that s because she s a ghost.

When his older sister disappears twelve year old buddy stebbins follows her back in time and finds himself aboard a seventeenth century pirate ship captained by a distant relative. Sid fleischman author peter sis illustrator greenwillow books 17 99 144p isbn 978 0 688 14216 2. Cast adrift with captain john crack stone buddy washes up in new england where his plucky ancestor abigail is caught up in the witchcraft mania.

She lives her afterlife alone watching the other supernatural residents of the 13th floor. When buddy stebbins stumbles onto the thirteenth floor of a shabby old building he finds himself suddenly transported aboard a leaking pirate ship in a.