Pleasing the Ghost

Sharon Creech

Fantasy Young Adult

Ever since nine-year-old Dennis’s dad died, a veritable parade of ghosts has been passing through his bedroom. When the ghost of his uncle Arvie blows into his room on a warm breeze, Dennis isn’t surprised, but Uncle Arvie is the first ghost who wants something from Dennis. Dennis would love to help Uncle Arvie, but he can’t quite understand what Uncle Arvie is asking for. What, for example, is “Fraggle pin Heartfoot a wig pasta”? Dennis has to find out, because this is one ghost who isn’t going to leave until he gets what he came for...

Uncle Arvie’s antics and Dennis’s attempts to please his ghost form the heart of this funny and tender tale from a Newbery Medal–winning storyteller.

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1996
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Sharon Creech

Sharon Creech is the author of the Newbery Medal winner Walk Two Moons, the Newbery Honor Book The Wanderer, and the Carnegie Medal winner Ruby Holler. Her other works include The Boy on the Porch, The Great Unexpected, The Unfinished Angel, Hate That Cat, The Castle Corona, Replay, Heartbeat, Granny Torrelli Makes Soup, Love That Dog, Bloomability, Absolutely Normal Chaos, and Chasing Redbird, as well as three picture books: A Fine, Fine School; Fishing in the Air; and Who's That Baby? Sharon Creech and her husband live in Maine.