The Ghosts of Rathburn Park
By: Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
This is an intriguing middle school mystery and all around good ending feel good book. A new family in town trying to make friends, adjust to the move, and the kids are not happy with the move. The story revolves around the 11 year old boy and a girl he meets in the woods. She is said to be a ghost. Also a little dog that is seen and ends up helping him a couple of times. Kept me interested and I think middle grade kids and slightly younger would enjoy it too! ( )

Another good one from Zilpha Keatley Snyder. I love her mix of the natural and supernatural. Grounded in reality, but with a bit of mystery. Leaving one to think (as Paul Sutphen always said), "There's more to think of than y'all's thought of ain't it?!" I think kids would like this one and easily relate to the problems with siblings and family squabbles etc. ( )

Lost in the woods of Rathburn Park, eleven-year-old Matthew weighs the odds of dying from thirst, embarrassment, or at the hands of the forest's reputed ghostly inhabitants