Bibliograph

The swallow, a ghost story, Charis Cotter

Type

Label

The swallow, a ghost story, Charis Cotter

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

630L, Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The swallow

Responsibility statement

Charis Cotter

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, MG, 4.3, 9, 174015

Sub title

a ghost story

Summary

In 1960s Toronto, two girls retreat to their attics to escape the loneliness and isolation of their lives. Polly lives in a house bursting at the seams with people, while Rose is often left alone by her busy parents. Soon they discover they're actually neighbors, sharing a wall. They develop an unlikely friendship, and Polly is ecstatic to learn that Rose can actually see and talk to ghosts. Maybe she will finally see one too! But is there more to Rose than it seems? Why does no one ever talk to her? And why does she look so ghostly? When the girls find a tombstone with Rose's name on it in the cemetery and encounter an angry spirit in her house who seems intent on hurting Polly, they have to unravel the mystery of Rose and her strange family before it's too late

Target audience

juvenile

resource.variantTitle

Ghost story

Classification