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Ghost Ship
by Mary Higgins Clark ages 7 to 10
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If you have ever vacationed on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, you might have daydreamed about the sea captains and whalers who sailed those waters 250 years ago.
That's what 9-year-old Thomas Fleming is doing the day he finds an old belt buckle on the beach near his grandmother's house on the Cape. As Thomas scrapes away at the grit on the buckle, something odd happens: A boy about Thomas's age appears. His name is Silas Rich, and he's a cabin boy on a ship called the Monomoy. The ship is commanded by Captain Andrew Hallett -- the same Captain Hallett who, two centuries earlier, built the house that Thomas's grandmother now lives in.
This time-travel tale is the first children's book by Mary Higgins Clark, who usually writes suspense novels for adults. But Clark has spun many a story for children -- she has six grandchildren and 11 step-grandchildren -- and she's been going to Cape Cod for 40 years, so she's on solid ground here. Younger readers will be gripped by her tale of the sea, and readers of all ages will enjoy the colorful sketches by Wendell Minor.
